Ancient art

Royal Palace of Genoa, Luca Giordano's large canvases in the Throne Room restored

Starting May 1, the public will once again be able to admire in the Throne Room of the Royal Palace in Genoa two large canvases by Luca Giordano, one of the main protagonists of seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painting. They are The Struggle betw...
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Artemisia Gentileschi, the decapitated Magdalene sold for 837,500 euros

A result far beyond expectations marked the sale of the... Beheaded Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, post 1654). This fragmentary painting, which is missing its head(we had discussed it in a dedicated article), fetched an impr...
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TEFAF and Bank of America fund restoration of rare Medici tapestry at Minneapolis Institute

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has been named as a beneficiary of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund 2026, an initiative sponsored by The European Fine Art Foundation together with Bank of America, Lead Partner of TEFAF New York. The joint co...
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Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

In Modica (Ragusa), the Teleri della Passione (Canvases of the Passion ) from the Church of the Carmine, an extraordinarily important pictorial cycle dating back to 1795 and recently recovered after more than a century of oblivion, have been restored...
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Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

The Diocesan Museum of Capua (Caserta) presented the restoration of a polychrome wooden sculpture depicting a Madonna and Child attributed to sculptors Pietro Alemanno and Giovanni Alemanno and dated around 1480. The intervention is part of the 20th...
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Florence, restoration of Masaccio's Trinity completed after three years

After three years of interventions, the restoration of Masaccio's Trinity, among the most important masterpieces of the early Renaissance, kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, has been concluded. A restoration that represents not ...
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Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

A masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the international market. Indeed, in May, at Pandolfini 's Milan headquarters, an extraordinary copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Oratore, illuminated and calligraphed by Bartolomeo Sanvito (P...
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Venice, Tintoretto masterpieces restored and relocated to San Giorgio Maggiore

The restoration of two monumental works by Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; Venice, 1518 - 1594), The Last Supper and The Jews in the Desert, two masterpieces from the late phase of the Venetian painter's career, now once again on view in the basilica of ...
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Florence, Bargello Museum will restore basement of Cellini's Perseus with a live construction site

Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia and Bargello Museums launch a new restoration project. Inside the Bargello National Museum 's Michelangelo Hall, operations have already begun to unmount the base of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus, the first step in a ...
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Florence, the Mormile Polyptych returns to view reassembled almost in its entirety at the Cenacolo del Fuligno

Thanks to the acquisition in 2025 by the Ministry of Culture of two missing panels, Antonio Rimpatta 's Mormile Polyptych has now been reassembled almost in its entirety, thus returning to the public a work of considerable importance. The two panels ...
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Egypt: 13 illegally stolen archaeological artifacts recovered from the United States

Egypt has recovered from the United States 13 archaeological artifacts that illegally left the country, as part of an operation conducted through cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and relevant ...
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International illicit trafficking: 46 artifacts returned to National Museum of Sybaris (Cosenza)

There are 46 archaeological artifacts from Etruscan, Greek and Roman times returned to the state and destined for the National Museum of Sibari, located in the territory of the municipality of Cassano all'Ionio, in the province of Cosenza, within the...
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Versailles, restored the king's chamber: the face of 1789 returns

At the Palace of Versailles , the chamber of the king's inner apartment returns to view in its 1789 configuration, at the end of a lengthy restoration project that represents the culmination of several decades of research, historical studies and craf...
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Forlì, there are hidden frescoes in the cathedral, possibly the work of Guido Cagnacci

A discovery destined to reignite the debate on one of the most fascinating enigmas of Baroque art in Romagna comes from the heart of Forlì Cathedral , and Il Resto del Carlino reports on it in an article signed by Sofia Nardi. During recent re...
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Masterpiece by Master of denim canvas goes public: acquired by Swiss museum

Aniconic work of 17th-century European reality painting is entering a public collection. Woman Begging with Two Children, a masterpiece by the so-called Master of the Denim Canvas, has been donated to the Pinacoteca Züst in Rancate, Switzerland,...
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Forlì and the Grand Baroque Theater on display at the San Domenico Museums

Forlì is the epicenter of a critical reflection on one of the densest seasons in European history with the exhibition entitled Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, hosted at the Museo Civico San Domenico from February 21 to June 28, 2026, cura...
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