Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, Casa Buonarroti puts online catalog of Michelangelo's drawings

A valuable tool for art lovers and scholars has recently arrived on the Web: Casa Buonarroti has decided to digitize and make available online, free of charge, the catalog of Michelangelo's drawings in its possession. Michelangelo's drawings, Casa Bu...
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Naples, unveiled the single ticket to visit two artistic excellences of the city

Starting Wednesday, April 24, it will be possible to visit Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Treasure of San Gennaro by purchasing a single integrated entrance ticket to admire the history, culture and art housed at the two historic sites in the h...
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At the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, two Velázquez masterpieces from London's National Gallery

From April 24 to July 14, 2024 at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, an Intesa Sanpaolo museum, it is possible to admire the two masterpieces by Diego Velázquez (Seville, 1599 - Madrid, 1660) Immaculate Conception and St. John the Evangelist on ...
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An exhibition at the Carrara Academy on the artistic relationship between Bergamo and Naples in the 17th century

From April 23 to September 1, 2024 Accademia Carrara presents Naples in Bergamo. A Look at the 1600s in the De Vito Collection and in the City, an exhibition that recounts the extraordinary link between Bergamo and Neapolitan painting of the 17th cen...
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The treasures of Sant'Agnese in Agone, a sumptuous baroque temple in Rome

The enhancement of the Crypt of Sant'Agnese in Agone, with the new artistic and architectural lighting system donated by the Webuild Group, is an opportunity to go to the rediscovery of the entire complex of the sumptuous Roman church, a sumptuous pr...
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In Mantua, a great 16th-century engraver, Giovanni Battista Scultori, on display for the first time

An exhibition dedicated to an important sixteenth-century engraver, Giovanni Battista Scultori (Mantua, 1503 - 1575): this is the one that from April 20 to July 21, 2024 is welcomed in the rooms of the Ducal Palace in Mantua. The exhibition Giovan Ba...
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Michelangelo doodle that started from an estimate of $6,000 sold for $200,000

It didn't go so well for those who had dreamed of taking home a Michelangelo drawing for a relatively low figure at Christie' s auction in New York the day before yesterday: the sheet with a doodle by the great artist, which had been put up for sale ...
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