Important purchase for the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia , which secures an Ecce Homo by Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi; Vercelli, 1477 - Siena, 1549): for the Spanish museum, it is the first painting by the Piedmontese painter by birth but Siene...
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A tribute to one of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance, Giovanni Bellini's The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, which, starting July 10, 2025, returns to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice. The work will be housed within a struc...
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Conservation work on the ceiling of the Chamber of Cupid and Psyche in Palazzo Te, one of the most famous rooms in the Mantuan complex, will begin in the second half of July. This is announced by the Fondazione Palazzo Te, which announces the start o...
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After months of work, restoration work has been completed on the Del Giglio-Neri Chapel, a historically and artistically significant environment located in the Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi complex in the center of Borgo Pinti in Restored the Del G...
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The Canaletto painting that was going up for auction late this afternoon at Christie's in London was sold for over £30 million. It was a masterpiece, for which there was great expectation: the work, The Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, one ...
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Restoration work has begun on the Fountain of the Shepherd, one of the prominent artistic elements located in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The sculpture, depicting a shepherd seated in the act of playing a two-pipe aulos, repres...
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The Albertini Collection, a nucleus of 1,749 parchments and documentary covers of Perugia origin dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, was presented today at theState Archives inRome's historic headquarters of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza. The collectio...
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The long and complex restoration of the pictorial cycle of the Hall of Constantine, the largest of Raphael's famous Stanze, at the Vatican Museums has been concluded. The work, which began in March 2015, began on the east wall, where the majestic sce...
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A major restoration and enhancement project concerning six figurative stucco sculptures, originally part of the decoration of the Teatro Farnese, a masterpiece of European Baroque, was presented in Parma this morning. The intervention, started in May...
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Work has been completed on the restoration of the monumental canopy of the Soluntine basilica of Sant'Anna in Santa Flavia, in the province of Palermo. The artifact, an imposing wooden structure built at the end of the 18th century, was the subject o...
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The United Kingdom has blocked the release of an important oil sketch by Pieter Paul Rubens that is in danger of leaving the country. The work was valued at 8.4 million pounds (about 9.8 million euros), and the blocking measure will give a U.K. galle...
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After a long and delicate conservation operation, Beato Angelico 's Crucifixion is finally back on view in the Convent of San Domenico in Fiesole (Florence). The work, of extraordinary artistic and spiritual importance, underwent a maintenance restor...
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There is a moment, every day, when Siena Cathedral opens its eyes to the world, when light filters through the spires and caresses the polychrome marble of its facade: it is dawn, and it is at that suspended hour, when the city still sleeps and the n...
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Restoration work has begun at the Royal Palace of Caserta on the Temple of Diruto and the House of Swans, two symbolic architectures of the Vanvitellian complex's English Garden. The project, overseen by the Autonomous Museum Directorate of the Minis...
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Operations to monitor the state of conservation of the three famous Caravaggio canvases in the Contarelli Chapel inside the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome have begun. TheCentral Institute for Restoration (ICR) in Rome announced this today t...
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A specimen of the famous David with the head of Goliath by Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - 1642), the best-known examples of which are preserved in the Uffizi and the Louvre, has surfaced in France . The Gazette Drouot, a French antiques newspaper, broke...
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