Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Canaletto masterpiece sold at Christie's for £31 million

The Canaletto painting that was going up for auction late this afternoon at Christie's in London was sold for over £30 million. It was a masterpiece, for which there was great expectation: the work, The Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day, one ...
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A Polish Queen on the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieskis in Rome since the 1700s

From June 11 through Sept. 21, 2025, the Capitoline Museums will host an exhibition titled A Polish Queen on the Capitoline Hill: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in Rome, the first stage of a new exhibition called Capitoline Hill Crossro...
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An 18th-century masterpiece of cabinetmaking, the Piffetti Library, comes alive in augmented reality at Villa della Regina

The Piffetti Library, an example of Baroque cabinetmaking, is back on view at Villa della Regina in Turin, the place for which it was conceived in the 18th century. It is a virtual restitution, made possible by augmented reality and virtual reality t...
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In France for the first time an exhibition on Duplessis, court portrait painter of Louis XIV

From June 14 to Sept. 28, 2025, the Bibliothèque-musée Inguimbertine in Carpentras, France, will host the first major retrospective devoted to Joseph Siffred Duplessis (Carpentras, 1725 - Versailles, 1802), a central figure of official ...
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Immaculate Conception from the school of Francesco Solimena, stolen in 1978, returns to Capodimonte

TheCarabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage has returned to the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco theImmaculate Conception, a valuable 18th-century painting attributed to the school of Francesco Solimena, the most representative pa...
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Eighteenth century returns to the Uffizi: an exhibition brings it back after a decade

After more than a decade of absence, the 18th century is back in the spotlight at the Uffizi. With the opening of the exhibition Florence and Europe. Eighteenth-Century Arts at the Uffizi, on view from May 28 to Nov. 28, 2025, the Gallery brings one ...
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For a relocation of Giacomo Cipper, painter of reality. What the Trento exhibition looks like

Anyone wandering through the rooms of the major exhibition that the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento dedicates to Giacomo Francesco Cipper cannot help but notice a certain insistence on objects and a certain insistence on smiles. It is perhaps th...
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Gian Enzo Sperone donated 33 works to the National Academy of San Luca. Now visible in exhibition

Gian Enzo Sperone, a gallery owner, dealer and collector from Turin and one of the leading figures in the international art world, has donated 33 works of art to theAccademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. This is the most important bequest that has ...
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