An extraordinary and rare drawing on paper by Perin del Vaga ( Piero di Giovanni Bonaccorsi; Florence, 1501 – Rome, 1547) has resurfaced on the market, brought to the Florence International Antiques Biennale by the Genoa-based gallery Goldfi...
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The first week of October 2026 promises to be full of opportunities for collectors, gallery owners, and art enthusiasts. Leading Italian and international auction houses are kicking off the fall season with a well-structured lineup ranging from works...
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The Chapel of San Massimo, commissioned by Bishop Pietro Donato (1390–1447) in the Bishop’s Palace in Padua, has been rediscovered and restored. The chapel was officially unveiled on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, following a major restoration pr...
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After a year of restoration work in the workshops of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the precious processional cross—created in 1501 by Gian Francesco dalle Croci for the Church of San Francesco—has returned to Brescia. The work, which ar...
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Stephanie Rosenthal will be the new artistic director of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam starting in the spring of 2027. The appointment was announced on September 30 by the museum’s Supervisory Board. Rosenthal is currently dire...
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On November 18, 2026, in New York,Sotheby’s will present the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection, a collection of works that traces some of the key milestones in the emergenceof modern art,from Impressionism in the 1870s to the innovations of Post-Impr...
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To create the elevator shaft inside the Sacra di San Michele, it was necessary to cut into the rock. It was therefore not merely a matter of installing a new elevator system in a historic building: the construction of the new elevator—which now ensur...
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When, in 1832, the Polish prince Stanisław Poniatowski, grandson of the last king of Poland, published the second volume of the catalog raisonné of his vast collection of engraved stones in Florence, he included in the introductory pages a sta...
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