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The myth of Juno and Argos: this is why so many eyes decorate the peacock's tail

Nature has created true masterpieces in the animal world. One of the most jaw-dropping examples is the peacock: it is as if a painter from who knows where in the universe took pleasure in painting with extraordinary meticulousness an infinite number ...
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Genoa, precious fresco by Giovanni Andrea Carlone found: sole survivor of spectacular vaulting

An important fragment of a fresco depicting St. Ignatius by Giovanni Andrea Carlone (Genoa, 1639 - 1697) has been rediscovered in Genoa .This valuable find represents a significant development in studies of late 17th-century Genoese Baroque painting....
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From theft to chronicle: book on Caravaggio's missing Nativity in Rome

A few days after the closing of the Caravaggio 2025 exhibition set up at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, the capital is once again wondering about one of the mysteries of Italian art history: the theft of the Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis, paint...
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When Rome of the popes led the... Globalization: what the exhibition "Global Baroque" looks like.

Global. The juxtaposition of the adjective with the Baroque artistic season in Rome in the title of the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, through July 13, communicates with the force of synthesis the sense of the scholarly project curated by ...
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Parma, restoration of six important baroque statues at Teatro Farnese begins

A major restoration and enhancement project concerning six figurative stucco sculptures, originally part of the decoration of the Teatro Farnese, a masterpiece of European Baroque, was presented in Parma this morning. The intervention, started in May...
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The Caravaggio exhibition in Rome has a big gap: Sicily is missing!

In less than a month, the Caravaggio 2025 event exhibition at Palazzo Barberini will close its doors. But is it really "one of the most ambitious exhibition projects ever dedicated to the work of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610),"...
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UK blocks the exit from the country of an important Rubens sketch

The United Kingdom has blocked the release of an important oil sketch by Pieter Paul Rubens that is in danger of leaving the country. The work was valued at 8.4 million pounds (about 9.8 million euros), and the blocking measure will give a U.K. galle...
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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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