Books

Lucio Fontana: A book featuring new international studies on the artist is now available online

The book *Lucio Fontana: Origins and Imagery* is now available online in two editions—Italian and English. This publication brings together contributions from twenty international scholars and art historians dedicated to the work of one of the leadin...
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Franco Maria Ricci opens first store outside the Labirinto della Masone in Venice

Franco Maria Ricci Editore is opening a new store in Venice inside the Bottega Cini, marking the first opening outside the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, in the province of Parma. The initiative is in the context of the 61st Venice Art Bienn...
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Women's cinema in the 1960s and 1970s: a volume on Italian women directors

Fondazione In Between Art Film presents Italian Female Filmmakers in the Sixties and Seventies: Lives, Histories, and Identities, a volume devoted to the film, documentary and video production made by female artists and filmmakers active in Italy bet...
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Ugo Mulas and Jasper Johns: photography and analysis as the birth of a language

There is a precise moment in the history of twentieth-century visual culture when photographic documentation ceases to be mere supportive reporting and turns into pure interpretation, itself becoming a critical act of the highest profile. This bounda...
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Intesa Sanpaolo: growing art market toward quality, rarities and new collectors

The fourth report Collectors and the Value of Art in Italy 2026, produced by Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking in collaboration with the group's Art, Culture and Historical Heritage Department and Research Department, and published by Allemandi, was pr...
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Venice's Marciana Library welcomes the world's largest book, donated by Alberto Peruzzo

On Thursday, April 9, 2026, at 11 a.m., the Marciana National Library in Venice will receive as a gift the book Modern Art - Revolution and Painting, described as the largest, heaviest and most expensive in the world. The ceremony will take place in ...
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The Room of Wonders, the new textbook to bring art to the center of the school

It is entitled The Room of Wonders and aspires to transform the hour of art history and image into a journey of discovery capable of combining disciplinary rigor, emotional participation and practical experimentation. The new course for secondary sch...
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A festival dedicated to French literature is born in Turin: it's called Francesissimo

From Friday, January 30 to Sunday, February 1, Turin will host Francesissimo, a new festival dedicated to French and Francophone literature and culture. The initiative is proposed as a mirror and complementary project to Italissimo, which has been br...
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A graphic novel tells the story of Camille Claudel, talented sculptor of the late 19th century

The story of late 19th-century French sculptor Camille Claudel told in a graphic novel: to be released on February 24, 2026 in bookstores Troppo libera. The Art, Love, and Struggle of Camille Claudel, by Assia Petricelli and Sergio Riccardi with afte...
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A vivid and shared portrait of Milan in the new volume "Marina Previtali, Milan put to work"

Silvana Editoriale publishing house has recently released the volume Marina Previtali, Milano messa in opera, edited by Lorenzo Valentino. The book collects eighty-six testimonies written by figures active in the most diverse productive (from entrepr...
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Piero della Francesca re-read by Adolfo Venturi: republished classic of criticism

Succedeoggi Libri has republished in its entirety the essay that Adolfo Venturi (1856-1941) dedicated in 1922 to Piero della Francesca, offering contemporary readers a rare opportunity for direct confrontation with one of the fundamental texts of Ita...
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Ragghianti and Zevi's correspondence published: a forty-year-long dialogue

A new piece enriches knowledge of 20th-century Italian cultural history. The Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti - ETS has published the third volume of the series dedicated to the epistolaries of its founder, this tim...
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University of Modena's historical collection at the center of an unpublished catalog

TheUniversity of Modena and Reggio Emilia opens a new window on its scientific history through the publication of the volume Tesori modenesi ritrovati (Rediscovered Modena Treasures), catalog of the exhibition scheduled from Oct. 4 to Dec. 21, 2025, ...
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A "Poesiealbum" for Daniel Spoerri: exhibition and book in the Garden where the artist rests

In the Tuscan Maremma, in Seggiano (Grosseto), the Garden of Daniel Spoerri is preparing to host a double commemorative event: a photography exhibition and the presentation of the volume Poesiealbum. Homage to Daniel Spoerri, curated by Anna Mazzanti...
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From theft to chronicle: book on Caravaggio's missing Nativity in Rome

A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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Unpublished photographs of the Vittoriale: D'Annunzio's house in Dante Bravo's book

Coming to bookstores on July 18, published by Skira and edited by Valerio Terraroli, Gabriele d'Annunzio's Il Vittoriale degli Italiani in the photographs of Dante Bravo (1925-1931), a volume that collects and presents for the first time in unabridge...
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