There are places where a work of art almost seems to take on a different character when it is moved from a museum and placed in a historic setting, in a garden, in front of a building, or within the landscape for which it was conceived. This is the p...
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The new exhibition season at Palazzo Reale in Milan opens with “Dalí and Fashion,” an exhibition scheduled to run from September 24, 2026, to January 31, 2027, and inaugurated during Milan Fashion Week. For the first time, this project offers ...
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Maurizio Cattelan is supporting research at the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRCCS) with *WINDOW, 2025*, a work inspired by the famous banana from *Comedian*. The artwork will be auctioned on Thursday, October 8, in Milan, at M...
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Eight hundred years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence traces a narrative that links devotion, patronage, and courtly relationships in late 17th-century Florence. From September 24, 2026 , to January 31, 202...
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The major auctions scheduled in Italy and abroad during the last days of September (September 24–30), featuring old master paintings, modern and Impressionist art, fine prints, Asian art, and interior design.
Auctions in Italy
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In the ancient Hittite capital of Hattuşa, in what is now the Turkish province of Çorum, a new fragment of the Treaty of Kadesh—one of the most important documents in the history of diplomacy—has been identified. The artifact, discovered durin...
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A previously unknown and recently rediscovered view of Vienna’s Karlskirche will be offered at the Dorotheum’s “Antique Paintings” auction on October 21, 2026. The work has been authenticated as entirely by the hand of Bernardo Bellotto, ...
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For nearly three thousand years, the city of Troy has been, above all, a story. The city of Priam, besieged by the Achaeans—the city of Hector, Paris, and Helen, of the wooden horse and the war recounted by Homer—has remained frozen in time, suspende...
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A tragic workplace accident occurred last night at the Colosseum: Andrea Moretti, a 22-year-old worker, lost his life. He was a rock climber—that is, a specialist in rope access and high-altitude work. Last night, he was working inside the Flavian Am...
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That there is still so much to discover about the Renaissance —and that what we know is only a tiny fraction of the story—is clearly evident in an enigmatic tondo that the Galleria Brun is presenting this year at the 34th edition of the Florence Inte...
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The British government has temporarily blocked the export from the United Kingdom of Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi’s *Seated Nymph*—known as“the Elder”—offering museums and galleries in the country the opportunity to acquire the sculpture and kee...
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Sfera Ebbasta filmed the music video for his new song “Lontano” inside Leonardo da Vinci’sLast Supper in Milan, in the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent, which housesthe painting. The shoot, which took place last week alongside ...
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In Venice, from September 23, 2026, to January 11, 2027, Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of 18th-Century Venice presents *In the Spirit of Venice*. The Alessandro Favaretto Rubelli Donation, an exhibition curated by Alberto Craievich dedicated to ...
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From November 14, 2026, to March 29, 2027, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice presents *Fucina degli Angeli*. Peggy Guggenheim and 20th-Century Art Glass, an exhibition curated by Cristina Beltrami that traces the history of Fucina degli Angel...
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Giotto’s Polyptych from the National Art Gallery of Bologna is heading to Romania. Starting today, September 22, the famous masterpiece will not be on view for a few weeks in Bologna and will travel to Romania, where it will be exhibited as par...
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In 2004, during a trip to Calabria, the artist Brunivo Buttarelli (Casalmaggiore, 1946) came across an olive tree devastated by arson: it had been burned from the inside and seemed beyond saving. Buttarelli, however, interpreted it differently: not m...
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A fundraising campaign through the Art Bonus program has kicked off in Faenza to fund the restoration of the painted walls of the Capanna rustica at Palazzo Milzetti. The initiative is sponsored by the National Museums of Bologna and the Regional Dir...
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Bolton, a historic Italian family-owned company and a leader in the production and distribution of consumer goods, supported the restoration of*Ercole o santo guerriero*(Herculesor theWarrior Saint), a sculpture that is part of the extraordinary heri...
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On the occasion of the high-level week of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), ICCROM, an intergovernmental organization that works to support its member states in promoting the conservation of all forms of cultural heritag...
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From October 3 to December 8, 2026,Matera will host *The Sea Is Closer Than You See*, a site-specific group exhibition dedicated to the relationship between contemporary art, digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and Mediterranean culture. T...
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From September 21 to November 18, 2026, Piazza Municipio in Naples will host “Voyageur,” a new public art installation by Ibrahim Mahama, curated by Vincenzo Trione. The Ghanaian artist, one of the leading figures in international contemporary art, h...
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A new excavation campaign at the Polledrara necropolis, in the ancient Etruscan city of Vulci, has unearthed an important funerary complex from the Orientalizing period. At the heart of the discovery is the Stone Chamber Tomb, a monumental burial sit...
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For nearly two centuries, all trace of Gaudenzio Ferrari’s (Valduggia, 1475 – Milan, 1546) *Saint Anthony of Padua* had been lost. The panel was part of an altarpiece intended for the high altar of the Church of Santa Chiara in Milan, and...
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More than 300 square meters of mosaics—371, to be exact—created in the early 17th century based on cartoons by Cristofano Roncalli, known as il Pomarancio (Pomarance, 1552 – Rome, 1626), are once again visible in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. ...
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To understand just how much a painting can change after restoration, one need only look atthe *Annunciation* by Neri di Bicci (Florence, 1418/1420–1492) in the Church of Sant’Agata in Florence. Beneath a thick layer of grime, yellowed var...
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