Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

The doors of the Baptistery of Florence, Lorenzo Ghiberti's masterpiece

On November 23, 1403, Lorenzo Ghiberti (Pelago, 1378 - Florence, 1455) signed the contract for the construction of the North Door of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence. This was the final outcome of the competition announced in 1401 by theArt...
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In Mantua and Rome, three exhibitions dedicated to Rubens and the relationship between Italian culture and Europe

From October 7, 2023 to February 18, 2024 Fondazione Palazzo Te, Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, and Galleria Borghese in Rome join forces in an ambitious project to pay homage to Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640). Rubens. The Birth of a Euro...
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Exhibitions in Ferrara, from the Ferrara Renaissance to Guido Harari

Ferrara reminds that two exhibitions at the Estense Castle are still open to the public until June 4, 2023. Carlo Guarienti. The Reality of the Dream and the IX VAF Foundation Prize. The first, the brainchild of Vittorio Sgarbi and organized by Fonda...
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That disastrous pope who loved the arts. What the exhibition on Urban VIII at Palazzo Barberini looks like.

Seventeenth-century Romans did not hold Urban VIII in high esteem, despite the fact that even today traces of his pontificate can be found scattered all over Rome, and despite the fact that the twenty-one years of his reign, from 1623 to 1644, are pr...
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Perugino in the Collegio del Cambio frescoes: the classical and Christian Renaissance

Walking around the Sala delle Udienze (Audience Hall ) of Perugia's Nobile Collegio del Cambio , one will easily spot, on the wall toward the entrance, a self-portrait of the author of the frescoes, Perugino (Pietro Vannucci; Città della Pieve...
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More than seventy masterpieces from the Capodimonte Museum will be on a six-month trip to the Louvre

From June 7, 2023 to January 8, 2024, the Louvre presents the exhibition Naples à Paris. Le Louvre invite le musée de Capodimonte, reaffirming the collaboration between European museum institutions. More than seventy of the Capodimonte...
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Arezzo celebrates the art of Margarito d'Arezzo, among the greatest interpreters of thirteenth-century painting

From May 25 to July 29, 2023, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Arezzo presents the small but significant exhibition The Medieval Magisterium of Margarito d'Arezzo - The 'Madonna of the Vertighe' and the Works of the National Museum o...
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Perugino's Madonna of Consolation, the work the artist did not want to deliver

Art history enthusiasts who frequent social networks are sure to have come across vignettes and "memes" (i.e., humorous images made by putting an ironic comment on a photograph that comes from a different context) a few times that play on theimpassib...
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