Baroque - Finestre sull'Arte

Rome, the route to discover ten of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's most famous works

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Naples 1598 - Rome 1680) is the leading figure of seventeenth-century European Baroque figurative culture. In his artistic career he distinguished himself among Roman artists, earning a prestigious reputation with the popes and ...
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Secrets of Baroque Rome: from March 25, a brand new docuwebseries by Lorenzo Zeppa

Starting March 25, a new DocuWebSeries entitled Secret Bar oque dedicated to the Roman Baroque will be launched in digital form. The project is promoted by La Sapienza University of Rome, organized by the Renovatio Association with the collaboration ...
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Naples, Schmidt's first act at Capodimonte: an exhibition on Caravaggio's Flagellation

Eike Schmidt 's debut as director of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte is under the banner of Caravaggio: the Flagellation is in fact the protagonist of an exhibition that will enliven the rooms of the Museo Diocesano di Donnaregina in Naples fr...
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A work that can be seen-just with a microscope. The Madonna and Child by Ignatius Muligin

The only known application of Galileo Galilei 's (Pisa, 1564 - Arcetri, 1642) microscope on a work of art concerns a work ... apparently unsuspected. Indeed, in the Diego Costantini Collection is preserved a Madonna and Child that, looking at it sup...
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Apollo and Daphne, the most spectacular of the bourgeois groups

"He who loves and pursues the joys of fleeting beauty, fills his hand with foliage and plucks bitter berries." This is the couplet that can be read at the base ofApollo and Daphne, the masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Naples, 1598 - Rome, 1680) p...
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Genoa, restoration of Rubens' spectacular Circumcision to start soon

Significant financial resources are arriving for the restoration of the Circumcision by Pieter Paul Rubens (Siegen, 1577 - Antwerp, 1642), a 1605 masterpiece by the Flemish artist that hangs on the high altar of the Gesù church in Genoa. The n...
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Mantua, Palazzo Te opens exhibition dedicated to Rubens. Seventeen works by the artist on display.

From October 7, 2023 to January 7, 2024, Palazzo Te in Mantua hosts the exhibition Rubens at Palazzo Te. Painting, Transformation and Freedom, curated by Raffaella Morselli in collaboration with Cecilia Paolini. The exhibition is part of the project ...
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Judith Beheading Holofernes, the masterpiece by Artemisia Gentileschi

Since the 1670s, the production of Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, after 1653), daughter of the famous painter Orazio, has always been associated to some extent, particularly with regard to some of her most recurrent, to the feminist caus...
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