A return that stitches up a fragment of Italian collecting history. In fact, theAllegory of Good Hope by Giovan Francesco Penni (Florence, 1488 - Naples, 1528) has returned to Rome in the collection of the Galleria Borghese after more than two centur...
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Who finished the First Christ of Minerva left unfinished by Michelangelo due to a defect in the marble? This is the knot that scholar Adriano Amendola of the University of Salerno has tried to untangle with a new and detailed study of his own, the re...
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Death and resurrection. These are the words that define the meaning of Venice in In Search of Lost Time, a work where the city holds a profound symbolic value in the story told there, with the protagonist's discovery of his own vocation for literatur...
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An independent project has transformed the Piacenza Liver, an Etruscan artifact preserved in Piacenza, into an interactive three-dimensional model. Created by developer Lorenzo Andraghetti and 3D artist Luca Tampieri, the work allows for online explo...
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There is a part of the body that runs through art history remaining almost always on the margins, rarely a protagonist and often relegated to a secondary role. Yet, precisely in this apparent absence lies one of the most interesting keys to reading t...
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The Louvre Museum is embarking onthe most impressive and ambitious restoration project ever undertaken by the Department of Painting: the 24 monumental canvases by Peter Paul Rubens that make up the famous Maria de' Medici Cycle will be restored. Thi...
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One of the most eagerly anticipated sales of the year for the antique drawing market was to be held on the afternoon of March 23 in the historic setting of theHôtel Drouot in Paris. Instead, just hours before bids were to be opened, the auction...
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A ritual altar with human remains and offerings was discovered near the archaeological zone of Tula, in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, during archaeological salvage work related to the construction of the Mexico City-Querétaro passenger rail li...
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