Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Pietro Bellotti, a study day at MarteS revives research on the painter

The MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, will host on Saturday, May 16, 2026, a day of studies dedicated to Pietro Bellotti, a painter active in the seventeenth century between Lombardy and Veneto, who h...
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Artemis Ephesia meets Tagliolini's biscuit at the MANN in Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte return to share the same exhibition space with The Echo of Artemis, a project that marks the preview of the MiC's recent acquisition destined for Capodimonte and r...
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Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

In Modica (Ragusa), the Teleri della Passione (Canvases of the Passion ) from the Church of the Carmine, an extraordinarily important pictorial cycle dating back to 1795 and recently recovered after more than a century of oblivion, have been restored...
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Villa Lagarina's baroque theater on the routes between Salzburg and Trentino

A cloudburst of superlatives bathes the paper on which Nicolò Dorigati, a Trentino painter from a noble family, and therefore always well-connected, had tried to state the reasons for the altarpiece, his altarpiece, destined for the church of ...
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Versailles, restored the king's chamber: the face of 1789 returns

At the Palace of Versailles , the chamber of the king's inner apartment returns to view in its 1789 configuration, at the end of a lengthy restoration project that represents the culmination of several decades of research, historical studies and craf...
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Masterpiece by Master of denim canvas goes public: acquired by Swiss museum

Aniconic work of 17th-century European reality painting is entering a public collection. Woman Begging with Two Children, a masterpiece by the so-called Master of the Denim Canvas, has been donated to the Pinacoteca Züst in Rancate, Switzerland,...
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TEFAF 2026, key still life by Giacomo Cipper sold: it is the only one signed

One of the seminal paintings in the catalog of Giacomo Francesco Cipper (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736), Still Life with Plate of Olives, Plate of Figs, Cheese, Celery a Bottle and Chalice, signed and dated 1700, was sold by the Matteo Salamon Galler...
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Touching the Veiled Christ: at the Sansevero Chapel a special tactile visit

Naples, the Sansevero Chapel Museum exceptionally opens its doors to blind and visually impaired visitors with an initiative dedicated to theaccessibility of artistic heritage. In fact, on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, the Naples museum is organizing the ...
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