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Forlì and the Grand Baroque Theater on display at the San Domenico Museums

Forlì and the Grand Baroque Theater on display at the San Domenico Museums

Forlì is the epicenter of a critical reflection on one of the densest seasons in European history with the exhibition entitled Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, hosted at the Museo Civico San Domenico from February 21 to June 28, 2026, cura...
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At auction in Vienna a mutilated Magdalene by Artemisia

At auction in Vienna a mutilated Magdalene by Artemisia

A mutilated work, scarred by history but still capable of restoring the power of Baroque painting. Among the top lots at the upcoming Old Master auction organized by Dorotheum in Vienna is a fragment of a Magdalene attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi...
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The Man of the Two Caravaggios. Mario Bigetti and the debate over the Capture and the St. Francis

The Man of the Two Caravaggios. Mario Bigetti and the debate over the Capture and the St. Francis

He makes an appointment for me in the store of one of his colleagues, concealed in the courtyard of a nineteenth-century palace on Via Vittoria Colonna. He, Mario Bigetti, doyen of Rome's antiquarians, no longer has his own store, no longer even work...
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Bernini, Urban VIII and the Theater of Power. What the exhibition at Palazzo Barberini looks like

Bernini, Urban VIII and the Theater of Power. What the exhibition at Palazzo Barberini looks like

Who, then, was Gian Lorenzo Bernini? In front of the long, uniform, sumptuous gallery of portraits gathered in the rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Barberini, one might be tempted to dismiss the feeling that Bernini was a man who disdained any for...
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Baroque, workshop of modernity. What the major exhibition in Forli looks like.

Baroque, workshop of modernity. What the major exhibition in Forli looks like.

What is Baroque? It is an attitude, and as such it transcends time, becoming a category. This is argued by Cristina Acidini, one of the curators of the exhibition recently opened at the Museo Civico San Domenico in Forlì. If we no longer think...
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Bernini from the Uffizi in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) for the exhibition "Baroque and Neo-Baroque from Rubens to Fontana"

Bernini from the Uffizi in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) for the exhibition "Baroque and Neo-Baroque from Rubens to Fontana"

From March 21 to July 31, 2026, the Imperiali Castle in Francavilla Fontana (Brindisi) will host the exhibition Baroque and Neo-Baroque from Rubens to Fontana, an exhibition project that puts works from different eras, from the seventeenth century to...
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Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Six canvases reunited after more than 350 years: it happens in Genoa, where from March 7 to July 19, 2026, the Strada Nuova Museums presents the exhibition Giulio Cesare Procaccini. The Apostles Reunited, set up in the rooms of Palazzo Rosso. The exh...
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Rome starts special tours to discover Bernini in St. Peter's Basilica

Rome starts special tours to discover Bernini in St. Peter's Basilica

The National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Fabbrica di San Pietro in the Vatican are promoting a calendar of guided tours of St. Peter's Basilica as part of the celebrations for the 400th anniversary of the consecration of the new Basilica, which ...
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