Debunking Alberto Giacometti Switzerland Twentieth Century
After the case of the bust of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, the last few days a new proposed attribution to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) concerning a painting depicting a Pieta has rekindled the interest of scholars…
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Debunking Ancient art Bergamo Eighteenth century
In recent hours the attention of many media has focused on a bust preserved in the basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome, the subject of a proposed attribution to Michelangelo. The hypothesis, put forward by Valentina Salerno, who…
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Debunking Ancient art Luca Giordano Six hundred Venice
Have twenty new works by Michelangelo Buonarroti really been discovered, kept in a secret room, as so many newspapers are saying these hours? Not really: let's go in order. The news starts from a study by an independent researcher…
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Is there a new Vincent van Gogh work in circulation? No: the fisherman's portrait for which New York-based LMI Group International sought authentication from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam received, as was largely predictable, a flat…
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An extraordinary discovery at theState Archives of La Spezia? So in the past few hours, Sunday, December 8, several newspapers have headlined referring to the alleged discovery of documents concerning Dante Alighieri in the La Spezia…
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There is no way that the painting that resurfaced yesterday in Geneva, a reduced version of Michelangelo's Last Judgment , can be attributed to him, the author of the large fresco on the back wall of the Sistine Chapel. The work, executed…
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Debunking Archaeology Ministry of Culture Photography
Is it possible to upset, in a few lines, the biography of an artist who has just passed away? If it is often newspapers that write inaccuracies on their pages, influencers also run the same risk: this is the case of Art Nomade Milan, aka…
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For the past few hours, in the main generalist newspapers and even in some specialized ones, news has been relaunched of the alleged "discovery " of a work "by Raphael": a Magdalene, in whose face people wanted to recognize the wife of…
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Mona Lisa landscape seekers are back on the attack. There is no painting in the world that, over the years, has changed locations more, as they say. Thus come on an almost annual basis those who believe they have identified, more or less…
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Debunking Contemporary art Renaissance
A singular piece of news concerning the Tondo de Brécy, an ancient copy of Raphael's Sistine Madonna, has bounced around in Italian and international newspapers in recent days: two British universities, Nottingham University and…
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DoesICOM, the main body representing museums internationally, really comment positively or support in full the actions of environmentalists who have targeted works of art in museums, with actions in which some members of environmental…
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Many newspapers today spread the news of an alleged "discovery": a copy of the Mona Lisa unearthed in the storerooms of Montecitorio in Rome (thus headlined Repubblica: "Rome discovers it has La Gioconda, it was hidden in a storeroom in…
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Have the "remains of the Pillars of Hercules" really been discovered in Spain, as many newspapers, e.g. Repubblica, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Secolo d'Italia and others, have headlined in recent hours? Obviously not: all the result of a…
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Word has spread (again, by the way: this is not a fresh discovery) that Leonardo da Vinci has "14 direct descendants," as some newspapers headline, or "14 descendants in the direct male line," as others point out, still living. What…
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The TV series Leonardo, dedicated to the adventures (it has to be said, because the story is fictional) of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 - Amboise, 1519), played by Irish actor Aidan Turner, has received a reception between lights and…
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There is a gap of at least four years in the life of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610): we do not know where he was and what he did between the last months of 1592 (the year to which the last known evidence…
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