On April 18, 1633, Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio of Savoy had 25 scudi paid to a gentleman from Pavia named Muzio Pietra. The reason for the payment takes up half a line: “for a portrait by Caravaggio.” It does not say who is…
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Three and a half meters below the historic center of Catania,five burial chambers connected by corridors and ancient staircases are once again open to the public.The Ancient Hypogeum of the Church of St. Augustine—now the Diocesan Shrine…
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Four hundred years after her birth, a major exhibition at Palazzo Corsini in Rome traces the life and intellectual journey of Christina of Sweden (Stockholm, 1626 – Rome, 1689), highlighting the complexity of one of the most fascinating…
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One detail didn’t add up: Paolo Violini, director of the Vatican Museums’ Painting Restoration Laboratory, was standing on the scaffolding set up in front of the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel, just a few centimeters from…
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Two new works attributed to Caravaggio in just twenty-four hours: a record, and it happened between yesterday and this morning. Yesterday, November 7, in Montepulciano, art historian Gianni Papi attributed to Michelangelo Merisi a portrait…
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Works and artists Ambrose Lorenzetti Ancient art Medieval art Medieval art Siena Tuscany
You leave the city through a gate left open, beneath the crenellated walls that protect it, and the road immediately widens until it disappears into the fields. Along the way, you pass people coming from opposite directions: on one side…
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Four hundred years after the completion of the large altarpiece for Brescia’s Duomo Nuovo, Palma il Giovane returns to the forefront of the city’s cultural scene. To mark the holiday season, the Zani House Museum in Cellatica…
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In Genoa, the restoration of 59 sculptures in the Monumental Area of the Albergo dei Poveri has been completed. The project, sponsored by the Friends of Genoa Foundation and made possible by a donation from the Paolo and Giuliana Clerici…
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