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AMART 2025 opens: reports from the fair (with prices)

AMART 2025 opens: reports from the fair (with prices)

The 2025 edition of AMART, the Milan antiques show that has long been confirmed as being at the top in terms of the quality of the proposal and the relevance of the gallerists who participate, opened today.This year, the appointment is from November...
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All the most interesting things at Artissima 2025 (with prices)

All the most interesting things at Artissima 2025 (with prices)

After a somewhat interlocutory 2024, with an edition not exactly like those of a few years ago, there is a different air in Artissima this year: more quality, a fair that does not seek to expand its identity to excess but aims to confirm it, to refin...
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Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

The major 2025 exhibition on Fra Angelico in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026) had, among others, the merit of offering the public, in the first room of Palazzo Strozzi, a kind of ideal reconstruction ...
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The Chimera of Arezzo: history of the most important and famous Etruscan bronze

The Chimera of Arezzo: history of the most important and famous Etruscan bronze

One can only imagine the sense of astonishment that, on that November 15, 1553, the people of Arezzo felt when news spread of the discovery of the splendid Etruscan bronze we know today as the Chimera of Arezzo. And even greater must have been the wo...
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The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

In one of the most intense passages of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, namely the narration of the protagonist Andrea Sperelli 's convalescence after receiving a nasty wound in a duel (an episode that marks the end of the first part of D'Annunzio's...
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The works of the last Monet: little known, but a painter of great visionary power

The works of the last Monet: little known, but a painter of great visionary power

Of the entire oeuvre of Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), most of the general public, who perhaps also attend exhibitions onImpressionism, tends to know mainly the works of the 1870s and 1880s, those that more than others helped to define t...
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When Giorgio Vasari invented iconographies: the Allegory of Patience

When Giorgio Vasari invented iconographies: the Allegory of Patience

Painter, historiographer, architect. Outstanding collector of anecdotes. Polemicist at times. Court artist. And also inventor of iconographies. It is the latter, perhaps, that is the least known aspect of Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574...
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Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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