Who is Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta

Federico Giannini. Giornalista, co-fondatore di Finestre sull'Arte, direttore responsabile della testata. Nato a Massa nel 1986, si è laureato nel 2010 in Informatica Umanistica all’Università di Pisa. Nel 2025 ha scritto il libro Vero, Falso, Fake. Credenze, errori e falsità nel mondo dell'arte (Giunti editore). Per la tv è stato autore del documentario Le mani dell’arte (Rai 5) ed è stato tra i presentatori del programma Dorian – L’arte non invecchia (Rai 5).

Ilaria Baratta. Giornalista, co-fondatrice di Finestre sull'Arte, caporedattrice della testata. È nata a Carrara nel 1987 e si è laureata a Pisa in Lingue e Letterature Straniere.


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The Boy Selling Fish at Dusk: A Masterpiece by Ceruti at the Pitti Palace

The Boy Selling Fish at Dusk: A Masterpiece by Ceruti at the Pitti Palace

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 basket onto...
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Caravaggio's Wine: What Does the Goblet Offered by the Uffizi's Bacchus Signify?

Caravaggio's Wine: What Does the Goblet Offered by the Uffizi's Bacchus Signify?

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 depicting the Ro...
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Six Centuries of Art at the Fortress: A Report from the Sarzana Antiques Fair (with prices)

Six Centuries of Art at the Fortress: A Report from the Sarzana Antiques Fair (with prices)

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 worked (partly ...
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Pontormo's Diary: What Did an Artist Eat in the 16th Century?

Pontormo's Diary: What Did an Artist Eat in the 16th Century?

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: not a narrat...
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Jacopo Ligozzi’s Absurd, Whimsical Glasses: Fantasy at the Medici Table

Jacopo Ligozzi’s Absurd, Whimsical Glasses: Fantasy at the Medici Table

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 far remove...
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The Ark of St. Augustine in Pavia, a masterpiece of Italian Gothic sculpture

The Ark of St. Augustine in Pavia, a masterpiece of Italian Gothic sculpture

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 deceased, as it...
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Cesena's Malatestiana Library, the Renaissance dream that has lived on for more than five centuries

Cesena's Malatestiana Library, the Renaissance dream that has lived on for more than five centuries

In 2003 a conference was held in Cesena celebrating the 550th anniversary of the opening of one of Italy's most illustrious cultural jewels, the Biblioteca Malatestiana, inaugurated in 1454: the organizers decided to give that day of study a title, T...
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A forgotten masterpiece: Emilio Malerba's Intermezzo on display again after a century

A forgotten masterpiece: Emilio Malerba's Intermezzo on display again after a century

The monographic exhibition on Emilio Malerba (Milan, 1878 - 1926) that the Fondazione Ragghianti of Lucca dedicated to the great Milanese painter on the centenary of his death, the first modern monographic exhibition devoted to him (curated by Paolo ...
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