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Restoration of the facade of Turin's Gran Madre di Dio begins, Milan-based ONE sponsors

Restoration of the facade of Turin's Gran Madre di Dio begins, Milan-based ONE sponsors

Work has officially begun in Turin on the restoration of the main facade of the Church of the Great Mother of God, one of the landmarks of the Piedmontese capital. The intervention will be entirely sponsored by ONE srl, a Milan-based company active i...
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Constraint on Prospero Fontana's painting: portrait of elderly gentleman remains in Italy

Constraint on Prospero Fontana's painting: portrait of elderly gentleman remains in Italy

The Regional Administrative Tribunal for Lazio has definitively banned the export of the Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman with Fur Coat and Collar, a work attributed to Bolognese Mannerist Prospero Fontana (Bologna, 1512 - 1597). The Superintendency ...
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Spain, Valencia's Museo de Bellas Artes acquires a beautiful Sodom painting

Spain, Valencia's Museo de Bellas Artes acquires a beautiful Sodom painting

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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Bellini's Presentation in the Temple returns to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in a new sensory display

Bellini's Presentation in the Temple returns to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in a new sensory display

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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Mantua, start of the restoration of the ceiling of the Chamber of Cupid and Psyche at Palazzo Te

Mantua, start of the restoration of the ceiling of the Chamber of Cupid and Psyche at Palazzo Te

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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Florence, restored the Del Giglio-Neri Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

Florence, restored the Del Giglio-Neri Chapel in the church of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

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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Canaletto masterpiece sold at Christie's for £31 million

Canaletto masterpiece sold at Christie's for £31 million

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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Ongoing restoration of the Fountain of the Shepherd in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta

Ongoing restoration of the Fountain of the Shepherd in the English Garden of the Royal Palace of Caserta

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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Perugia Foundation acquires the Albertini Collection: 1749 valuable parchments from the 14th-15th centuries

Perugia Foundation acquires the Albertini Collection: 1749 valuable parchments from the 14th-15th centuries

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 pictorial cycle of the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican Museums restored. A decade-long intervention

The pictorial cycle of the Hall of Constantine at the Vatican Museums restored. A decade-long intervention

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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Parma, restoration of six important baroque statues at Teatro Farnese begins

Parma, restoration of six important baroque statues at Teatro Farnese begins

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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Monumental canopy of the basilica of Sant'Anna in Santa Flavia in Palermo restored

Monumental canopy of the basilica of Sant'Anna in Santa Flavia in Palermo restored

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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UK blocks the exit from the country of an important Rubens sketch

UK blocks the exit from the country of an important Rubens sketch

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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Fiesole, Beato Angelico's Crucifixion returns to view after major restoration

Fiesole, Beato Angelico's Crucifixion returns to view after major restoration

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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Siena Cathedral opens to exclusive dawn visits with claviger

Siena Cathedral opens to exclusive dawn visits with claviger

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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Royal Palace of Caserta, restoration of the Diruto Temple and the House of Swans kicks off

Royal Palace of Caserta, restoration of the Diruto Temple and the House of Swans kicks off

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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