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Palermo, Carabinieri hand over valuable gold fund confiscated after illicit exportation

Palermo, Carabinieri hand over valuable gold fund confiscated after illicit exportation

Last Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., at the headquarters of the Regional Museum "Abatellis" in Palermo, a Trinity on panel, attributed to Gherardo Starnina (Florence, 1354 - 1413), was formally handed over to the Regional Councillor for Cultural Heritage and S...
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A museum in Scotland displays more than 300 objects related to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

A museum in Scotland displays more than 300 objects related to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

A private collection of artwork and personal items that belonged to Victorian painter John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896) and his wife Effie Gray, a native of Perth, Scotland, will be made available to the Perth Art Gallery in Sco...
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Charnel houses, witches and castles: 6 chilling places to discover in Lombardy

Charnel houses, witches and castles: 6 chilling places to discover in Lombardy

Kicking off the new season of the Wednesday Addams series on Netflix, which has achieved great success with its dark aesthetic and gothic charm: for the occasion, we have selected six places in Lombardy that seem to have come straight out of an episo...
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The Kimbell Art Museum acquires a masterpiece: the Saracens' Still Life of the Pensioner

The Kimbell Art Museum acquires a masterpiece: the Saracens' Still Life of the Pensioner

Major acquisition for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth , Texas, United States, which announced the day before yesterday the acquisition of Still Life with Melon, Watermelon and Other Fruits, painted around 1610-1620 by the Italian artist known as...
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Contamination and wonder: a dialogue between the Koelliker and Scarzella collections in Milan

Contamination and wonder: a dialogue between the Koelliker and Scarzella collections in Milan

A dialogue between two collections, a space that welcomes heterogeneous visions, unexpected juxtapositions and transversal narratives: Cabinet is the new exhibition set up in the Koelliker house-museum in Milan, which can be visited from October 17 t...
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August snow and Marian visions: the legendary origin of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

August snow and Marian visions: the legendary origin of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

A snowfall in the middle of summer. It happened, according to one legend, on the night of August 4-5, 358 A.D., when a blanket of fresh snow covered the Esquiline Hill in Rome. At the origin of the prodigy was adreamlike apparition of the Virgin, who...
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"Knock Knock Knock": at the Labirinto della Masone, the exhibition on vintage door knockers from the Cesati collection

"Knock Knock Knock": at the Labirinto della Masone, the exhibition on vintage door knockers from the Cesati collection

From September 14, 2025 to January 6, 2026, Franco Maria Ricci 's Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato (Parma) will host the exhibition Knock Knock Knock. Iron Guardians from the Cesati Collection, curated by Alessandro Cesati and the Franco Maria ...
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Germany, Lübeck rediscovers two valuable 16th century plates thought lost for 200 years

Germany, Lübeck rediscovers two valuable 16th century plates thought lost for 200 years

Two panels from a polyptych that were thought to have been lost for more than two centuries have been found and now join the complex of which they were part. It happens in Germany, in Lübeck, where the St. Annen Museum unveiled on July 31 the two pa...
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