Eighteenth century - Finestre sull'Arte

Bellotto stars at Christie's: £6 million Venetian masterpiece in London

One of the most important Venetian vedute (views) by Bernardo Bellotto (Venice, 1722 - Warsaw, 1780) to appear on the market in recent years will take center stage at the Old Masters Evening Sale organized by Christie's in London on June 30. The work...
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Palazzo Milzetti in Faenza, timeless neoclassicism

The understated elegance of its façade, located along Via Tonducci in Faenza, does not hint at the wonders that await the visitor beyond the threshold of Palazzo Milzetti: yet, that is how one might consider this jewel in the center of the city of ce...
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Bartholomew Bimbi, the painter who turned fruits and vegetables into marvels

The Villa della Topaia, close to the better-known Medici residences of Castello and Pietraia, still bears the signs of the time when it was a casino of rest and delights for Cosimo III. Two elegant cartouches, placed in the hall of honor, accommodate...
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Canaletto's Bucintoro on Ascension Day: the liturgy of the Republic of Venice

There was a day in the year when Venice stopped being a city and became a bride. It happened duringAscension Day: forty days after Easter, during the "Feast of the Sensa" ("Sensa" is Ascension in Venetian), the Serenissima donned her richest clothes,...
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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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