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Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome: din of colored marbles and images of death

There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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Caravaggio, monitoring campaign begins on Contarelli Chapel masterpieces

Operations to monitor the state of conservation of the three famous Caravaggio canvases in the Contarelli Chapel inside the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome have begun. TheCentral Institute for Restoration (ICR) in Rome announced this today t...
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A recently discovered work by Artemisia Gentileschi ends up at auction at Sotheby's

Going up for auction at Sotheby's in London on July 3 is Artemisia Gentileschi's David with the Head of Goliath, one of the most recent additions to the painter's catalog. The work has been known to scholars for some time, and had risen to headlines ...
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Urbino, a major exhibition on Simone Cantarini at the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche

From May 22 to Oct. 12, 2025, the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino will pay tribute to Simone Cantarini (Pesaro, 1612 - Verona, 1648), known as "il Pesarese," with a major monographic exhibition dedicated to his artistic production. The even...
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Elisabetta Sirani, a successful painter in 17th-century Bologna. Told by those who studied her

Those who wanted to make a biopic dedicated to Elisabetta Sirani would have at their disposal all the factors useful for the success of a film: the figure of an independent, cultured woman determined to pursue an extraordinary success, which indeed c...
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New Caravaggio discovered? One of his best-known scholars believes he has found an original

Has a new Caravaggio been discovered? This is the question one asks after reading the words of Gianni Papi, one of the best-known experts on the great Lombard artist, interviewed for Corriere della Sera by Edoardo Sassi. The newspaper first gives an ...
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The little rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome: the perspective games of Andrea Pozzo as a requirement of faith

St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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Ten places to see and learn about Rubens in Antwerp

Antwerp is the city that more than any other tells the story of the life, art and genius of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1640) , the greatest Flemish painter of the seventeenth century and one of the absolute protagonists of European ar...
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