Ancient art

The Lubomirski Cupid, one of Canova's most significant plaster casts in the Possagno Gypsotheca, will be restored

TheAmorino Lubomirski, one of the most significant plaster casts housed in the Gypsotheca in Possagno, made by Antonio Canova in 1785, will be restored thanks to the support of the Municipality of Treviso. The initiative stems from the ongoing dialog...
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US, stop sale of two paintings stolen by Nazis: they will return to heirs

The auction sale of two 17th-century Dutch paintings that were stolen by the Nazis during World War II has been blocked in the United States . This was achieved by the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, a nonprofit that aims to raise global awarenes...
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France, crucifix attributed to Rubens found: will go to auction in November

A Christ on the Cross that has been discovered in France has been attributed to Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640). Jean-Pierre Osenat, director of the French auction house Osenat, announced the discovery to the France Press (AFP) agen...
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Lucca's Holy Face restored: now looks as it did from the 9th to the 17th century

The restoration of the Holy Face, the monumental polychrome wooden crucifix that has been kept in Lucca Cathedral for more than a millennium, has been completed. The work restored the sculpture to the appearance it had from the 9th to the 17th centur...
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The Royal Museums of Turin acquire two important paintings by Moncalvo

From Thursday, September 11, 2025, visitors to the Royal Museums of Turin will find an exhibition itinerary enriched by two new and valuable acquisitions. In the Galleria Sabauda, on the second floor, in a space located in front of the bookshop, two ...
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Precious portrait of Rosalba Carriera resurfaces after 300 years and goes to auction in England

An unpublished painting by Rosalba Carriera (Venice, 1673 - 1757) that never left the family circle for more than three centuries is now being presented to the public and the market for the first time. It is a pastel portrait of Coulson Fellowes, an ...
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Envy, Madness and the Mask: Brun presents three important findings for sculpture

The second edition of Arte e Collezionismo a Roma, organized by the Associazione Antiquari d'Italia, will be held Sept. 20-23, 2025 at Palazzo Barberini, home of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica. Among the booths present, one of the most anticip...
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Siena, a rare early 15th-century wooden crucifix returns to view restored. Attributed to little-documented artist

A rare example of early 15th-century wooden sculpture has returned to public view: it is the large wooden crucifix attributed to Alberto di Betto d'Assisi, now on display in theOratory of San Bernardino, home of the Diocesan Museum of Siena. Coming ...
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Marche, a 17th-century copy of Federico Barocci reborn with Art Bonus

Intimate and solemn, a 17th-century Nativity , a copy of the painting by Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1533 - 1612) kept at the Prado Museum in Madrid, which has been legible again for two years thanks to restoration, carried out in 2023, through the Art...
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Gallo Fine Art brings paintings and sculptures from the 16th and 18th centuries to Art and Collectibles Rome

From September 18 to 23, 2025, Palazzo Barberini in Rome will host the second edition of the exhibition Art and Collecting in Rome, an event dedicated to ancient art and collecting: among the participants will be the Venetian gallery Gallo Fine Art f...
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Germany, reunited the two fragments of a painting attributed to Cranach, sawn off in 1937

In Germany the two fragments of Salome with the Head of the Baptist, a painting attributed to Lucas Cranach (Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1552) or his workshop, which was dismembered in 1937, have been reunited after nearly 90 years . The two pieces of th...
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Vermeer, the two "guitarists" compared after three centuries: what is their relationship?

For the first time in more than three centuries, two nearly identical canvases that have long been discussed will be found next to each other: they are the celebrated Woman Playing the Guitar by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675) and its enigmatic...
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Genoa, precious fresco by Giovanni Andrea Carlone found: sole survivor of spectacular vaulting

An important fragment of a fresco depicting St. Ignatius by Giovanni Andrea Carlone (Genoa, 1639 - 1697) has been rediscovered in Genoa .This valuable find represents a significant development in studies of late 17th-century Genoese Baroque painting....
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In Lucchesia, a restoration resurfaces a forgotten Renaissance fresco

An important fragment of Lucca and Tuscan art history resurfaces from the walls of the church of San Martino in Migliano, a hamlet in the municipality of Camaiore, Valfreddana, a few kilometers from Lucca. It is here that, following restoration, a fr...
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Forgotten for over a century, Malosso frescoes return to light

Almost all of the lost frescoes of the Salazar Chapel, a masterpiece by Giovanni Battista Trotti known as Malosso (Cremona, 1555 - Parma, 1619) that could once be seen in the Capuchin church in Regona, a hamlet of Pizzighettone (Cremona), where Don D...
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No to the loan of the Bayeux tapestry to England: a petition gathers nearly 50 thousand signatures

A petition asking France not to lend theBayeux tapestry to England. It was launched, on Change.org, by Didier Rykner, longtime editor of La Tribune de l'Art, one of France's most-watched art magazines, and in about a month it has already reached nea...
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