Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo acquires important work by Giacomo Francesco Cipper

Brescia 's Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo enriches its permanent collection with a new masterpiece. It is the Gypsy Concert by Giacomo Francesco Cipper (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736), a naturalized Austrian-Italian artist active in the late 17th and fi...
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Corciano lions leave village after seven centuries for historic restoration

For the first time in seven centuries the lions of Corciano, historic guardians of the Umbrian village in the province of Perugia, are leaving their city to undergo restoration. The operation, entrusted to specialized restorers and authorized by Peru...
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The Night Watch dog: discovered the artist who inspired Rembrandt

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have discovered the drawing of the dog on which Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn; Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669) relied to paint the barking dog in The Night Watch, one of his most famous masterpieces. It is ...
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Ad Artem donates proceeds from tours to support the people of Gaza

On the occasion of the national mobilization Block Everything with Palestine in the Heart, scheduled for Monday, September 22, 2025, the cultural association Ad Artem has announced an initiative aimed at supporting the people of Gaza. The Milan-based...
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Lionello Spada, the miracle of the book and the forclusion of evil

In Western religious painting, the theme of evil has also experienced a constant stylistic and iconographic evolution. It is not the purpose of this paper to reconstruct its evolution and fortune (a work already exhaustively accomplished in Luther Li...
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Pompeii opens a restaurant in the excavations: can food enhance historical heritage?

Inside the archaeological excavations of Pompeii, the Pompeii Chora Restaurant, a restaurant that has been operating for some time in the Casina dell'Aquila, a 19th-century building located in the center of the archaeological area, was inaugurated. T...
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From baroque splendor to oceanic routes: the Rolli Days 2025 tells the story of Genoa on the sea

An important edition, the fall 2025 edition of Rolli Days, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 20 and Sunday, Sept. 21, the event by which Genoa's historic palaces open their doors to the public through guided tours curated by scientific popularizers and c...
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Antoine de Lonhy's Archangel Michael returns to Piedmont thanks to two Turin merchants

An important page in the history of 15th-century Piedmontese art has been enriched with a new chapter after the auction sale of Antoine de Lonhy'sArchangel Michael, a gold ground panel of extraordinary refinement recently resurfaced from a Swiss priv...
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