A new work officially enters the catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669). In fact, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have shown that a painting, the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple, dated 1633, can be assigned to th...
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The year 2026 marks eight hundred years since the death of St. Francis (Assisi, 1181 - 1226), and Assisi is preparing to celebrate the anniversary with a project that looks to the future of cultural heritage protection: in fact, the Basilica of St. F...
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In Cremona, the restoration of the large canvas depicting the Healing of the Blind Man Born by Pietro Martire Neri (Cremona, 1591 - Rome, 1661) has turned into an opportunity for a comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the Cremonese painter's w...
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Restored Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, Agnes and Genesius, painted around 1619 by Luigi Amidani and kept at the Pilotta Monumental Complex in Parma. The scene depicts the Madonna seated on a throne with the Child; above them, three...
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The three large canvases decorating the ceilings of the Real Casino del Bosco di San Silvestro at the Royal Palace of Caserta have been restored. The works were in a condition of severe deterioration, such that their preservation and the possibility ...
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Thirty-five Rembrandtetchings have been found in a private home in the Netherlands, where they had been sitting in a drawer for decades. The discovery, as ArtNews reports, came during the COVID-19 pandemic when Charlotte Meyer, after a recent move, ...
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On Friday, February 20 at 11:30 a.m., Turin 's Palazzo Madama hosted the presentation of the restoration of the Polyptych with Saint Jerome and Saints, Annunciation and Scenes from the Passion by Defendente Ferrari (Chivasso, ca. 1475 - 1540), a work...
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After an absence of more than eighty years, the monumental canvas by Giuseppe Avanzi (Ferrara, 1645 - 1718) returns to the presbytery of the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa in Ferrara, and the city can thus return to see one of its most signifi...
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For the first time, Portugal has returned to Mexico archaeological goods illegally removed from its territory. The handover took place on Feb. 12, 2026 at the headquarters of the Mexican Embassy in Lisbon, where Portuguese authorities formally transf...
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Until May 3, 2026, MAT - Museo Arte Tempo in Clusone (Bergamo) dedicates the first monographic exhibition to one of the most significant protagonists of local and Bergamasque artistic history: Domenico Carpinoni (Clusone, 1566 - 1658). The exhibition...
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From Feb. 14, 2026, the Pinacoteca Civica "Francesco Podesti" in Ancona opens its halls to two exceptionally important loans that bring into direct dialogue two absolute protagonists of the Italian Renaissance: Titian Vecellio and Lorenzo Lotto. TheM...
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After six months of restoration , the Trinity attributed to Apollonio di Giovanni, a significant testimony to Florentine painting of the mid-15th century, has returned to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Prato . The work, a cusped panel with a gold ...
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A digital reconstruction of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt is at the center of a research project that links underwater archaeology, historical analysis and three-dimensional modeling to restore one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. A...
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It had been withdrawn a few hours before the Feb. 5 sale at Sotheby's: Antonello da Messina'sEcce Homo , which was about to go to auction with an estimate of $10-15 million, was already shaping up to be one of this year's highlights on the market. An...
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New world record for a work by Michelangelo at auction: it happened at Christie's in New York, where a rare study for the Libyan Sibyl from the Sistine Chapel sold for $27.2 million (23.10 million euros). And to think that this figure was the result...
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New world record for Artemisia Gentileschi. At Christie' s auction on Feb. 4, theSelf-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria fetched a price of $5,687,000 (4.8 million euros), more than doubling the minimum estimate and marking the highest result ev...
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