In Arezzo, the story of St. Francis and his cultural, artistic, and spiritual legacy is enriched by a new chapter. As part of the celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of the saint’s death, the Tuscany Regional Directorate of National Museums of...
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Technology is being integrated into Turkey’s strategies for protecting its archaeological heritage with a new aerial surveillance system installed in the ancient city of Sardis and in the area of the Bin Tepe coastal mounds, in the province of ...
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A small roll of film, a few photos taken in Centuripe, and a wedding photograph from 1979 helped reconstruct the history of the Centuripe pyx—the precious 3rd-century B.C. terracotta vessel thatthe Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam has now returned ...
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Even before the world truly became “global,” people, goods, knowledge, and cultures were already crossing the oceans along trade routes that connected distant continents. It is from this perspective that *Florence Global: The World of Fra...
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From October 9, 2026, to January 31, 2027,Palazzo Esposizioni Roma presents *Richard Avedon. In the American West, 1979–1984, an exhibition dedicated to the historic series of portraits created by American photographer Richard Avedon (1923&ndas...
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Fall continues to be one of the liveliest and most dynamic times of the year for the art and collecting market. From October 8 to 14, 2026, the auction calendar is packed with must-see events ranging from period furniture to fine prints, investment j...
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Naples bathed in the first light of dawn, with the sea barely rippled, the silhouette of Castel dell’Ovo, and Vesuvius glimpsed in the background. This is the city as depicted by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot in *The Bay of Naples with Castel del...
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THE BANK ETS Foundation—Institute for Contemporary Painting Studies in Bassano del Grappa, in the province of Vicenza—presents *The Painter’s Craft*, an exhibition dedicated to Nebojša Despotović (Belgrade, Serbia, 1982) and curated by C...
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Georg Baselitz’s “Hero” series, created in 1965 and 1966, comes to London in an exhibition that brings together some of its most significant paintings. From October 13 to December 18, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac’s Ely House will host “Georg Baselitz: The H...
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To mark the centennial of its founding,the IUAV University of Venice is dedicating an exhibition to Guido Guidi, a photographer who has been part of the university’s history—first as a student, then as a lab technician, and finally as a profess...
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The natural phenomenon known in Mexico as “mar de fondo”—characterized by intense wave action that alters the coastal landscape—has brought to light new evidence of ancient civilizations along the coast of the state of Colima. In Playa Tecuanillo, in...
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The MAM – Media Art Museum opens to the public on Friday, October 9, 2026, in Rome, billed as the capital’s first permanent museum entirely dedicated to media art. The new institution is located at Corso d’Italia 37/D, occupies appr...
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To understand what Ferrara was—and, above all, how the city has preserved its artistic heritage over time—it is not enough to look only at the paintings: one must also trace the stories of those who collected them, the institutions that acquired them...
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New traces of Roman Agrigento are emerging from the Valley of the Temples. During excavations conducted by the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa within the Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, remains of frescoe...
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The Fayum portraits—the famous faces painted on funerary panelsin ancient Egypt—are among the most celebrated images of antiquity, but in Italy they are also among the hardest to see, at least all together, given their rarity and fragility. There are...
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When snow covers a landscape, it seems to take away rather than add: it erases details, softens colors, alters distances, and makes it harder to distinguish what belongs to observation from what arises from perception. It is above all in this uncerta...
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Now 95 years old, one of Germany’s greatest artists, Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931), continues to explore the relationship between light, color, and form. It is precisely this exploration—developed by the German artist over more than seventy years o...
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The restoration of an archaeological mosaic usually takes place out of sight of visitors, behind the barriers of a construction site or inside a workshop. At the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, however, work on the floors of the Bouleuterion—the ...
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Luigi Russolo returns to his hometown with an exhibition featuring some eighty works and documents, marking the return to Italy—after twenty years—of *La Musica* (1911), one of his best-known paintings. From October 18, 2026, to February 28, 2027, th...
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From October 13, 2026, to January 30, 2027, the Federica Schiavo Gallery in Rome presents *On Leaning*, an exhibition of new works by the painter Svenja Deininger, focused on a painterly practice that rejects a predetermined starting point and procee...
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Yet another theft at a French museum: Joseph Forêt’s*Apocalypse*, a monumental artist’s book famous for its cover by Salvador Dalí, based on the text of St. John, was stolen during the night between Sunday, October 4, and Mon...
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From Michelangelo’s *David* to the sculptures of Auguste Rodin and Antoine Bourdelle, and on to the interpretations of Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Leonardo Bistolfi, and Adolfo De Carolis: the Accademia Gallery in Florence is dedicating an exhibi...
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The University of Salento’s 18th excavation campaign inthe ancient Roman city of Aquinum, located within the territory of the present-day municipalities of Castrocielo and Aquino (in the province of Frosinone), has unearthed two archaeological ...
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From Vulci to Villa Giulia. “La via degli Eroi” is the new project connecting the Vulci Archaeological and Naturalistic Park and the National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome through a combined ticket available starting October 15, 2026.
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Two paintings attributed to the Master of 1416 will be on display together from October 6, 2026, to March 14, 2027, in the first-floor galleries of the Accademia Gallery in Florence. The Madonna and Child with Saints Peter, Anthony the Abbot, Julian,...
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