News Focus Art Fairs Artissima Contemporary art
Artissima is now in its 33rd edition—the fifth under the direction of Luigi Fassi—with a format that mirrors that of recent editions: a fair that is becoming less experimental and increasingly attuned to collectors’ tastes. From…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggesque Lucca Six hundred Tuscany
In the center of Lucca and many other cities in Tuscany, as summer gives way to fall and the days begin to cool and the sun sets early, a scent rises from the small braziers placed at street intersections—a scent that everyone by now…
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Works and artists Ancient art Eighteenth century Florence James Ceruti Pitti Palace Uffizi
A sky shifting from pink to gray, the moment when the light of day gives way to twilight. In this twilight light, against a background devoid of architecture, we see a young boy smiling as he tips, with a sudden, decisive gesture, a woven…
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Works and artists Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred Tuscany Uffizi Uffizi Galleries
One could almost say that Caravaggio’s*Bacchus* (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610), now housed in the Uffizi Gallery, is a 20th-century painting: for more than three centuries, in fact, the painting…
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News Focus Antiques Liguria Sarzana
For the past five years, the summer antiques fair has been held in Sarzana, where , back in 2023, the city decided to dust off its National Antiques Exhibition—held at the Firmafede Fortress—after a ten-year hiatus: the experiment had…
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Works and artists Five hundred Florence Mannerism Pontormo Tuscany
Anyone who opens the pages of the diary that Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci; Pontorme di Empoli, 1494 – Florence, 1557) kept during the final years of his life, from January 7, 1554, to October 23, 1556, is confronted with a unique text…
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Works and artists Ancient art Five hundred Florence Tuscany
During the final decade of his long career in Florence, Jacopo Ligozzi—who was one of the most original painters active between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries—devoted himself to an undertaking that at first glance seems…
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Works and artists Ancient art Lombardy Medieval art Pavia Three hundred
Located in Pavia, inside the basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, is one of the pinnacles of Italian Gothic sculpture: theArk of St. Augustine. This imposing cenotaph (i.e., a funerary monument not intended to hold the remains of the…
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