Ferrara - Finestre sull'Arte

When a box set is a Wunderkammer wonder. What the Mirabilia Estensi exhibition in Ferrara looks like.

The record belongs to Julius von Schlosser, a distinguished pioneer of the Viennese school of art history: he was the first to take an interest, and to do so with a systematic measure, in the historiated caskets produced in the fifteenth century by t...
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Rescue from flood of 15 thousand books on display at Ferrara castle

The exhibition Sommersi Salvati (Sunken Saved ) by photographer Silvia Camporesi opens from January 27 to March 17, 2024, in the Sala dei Comuni of the Estense Castle in Ferrara. The exhibition is organized by several institutions: the Bishop's Semin...
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Ferrara, Estense Hall, former court chapel, reopens after redevelopment work

Reopened, at the end of complex upgrading, accessibility enhancement, plant renewal, with the introduction of air conditioning, and energy efficiency (thanks to which savings of about 30 percent are expected), the Estense Hall in Ferrara. The total i...
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Ferrara, excavations at Este delizia in Belfiore reveal ancient basin with hydraulic pipeline

As part of excavations in the archaeological area of theancient Este delizia of Belfiore, anancient hydraulic basin made with mortar and earthenware and connected to an ancient hydraulic pipeline with glazed terracotta 'tubuli' to give impermeability...
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Arrigo Minerbi Sculptor. Between Ferrara and the Italian culture of the early twentieth century.

From Saturday, July 8, the cool noble halls of Ferrara's Castello Estense welcome visitors to the superb exhibition dedicated to Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara, 1881 - Padua, 1960), a distinguished prince of early 20th-century Italian sculpture and a person...
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Here's how Ferrara and Bologna overlapped in the Renaissance. Interview with Vittorio Sgarbi

The exhibition Renaissance in Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli (in Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, from February 18 to June 19, 2023), is one of the most significant of the year, as well as ...
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The Bentivoglio diptych by Ercole de' Roberti: a masterpiece of Renaissance portraiture

The Bentivoglio diptych, preserved at the National Gallery in Washington, can be seen until June 19 at the exhibition "Renaissance in Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa," curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli. A pair of elegant g...
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The most apt knight and baron. Nicolò da Correggio master of delights in Schifanoia.

While the magnificent exhibition Rinascimento a Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa - and there shine masterpieces of the highest rank in the context of the golden age of Italian humanism - it will not be inappropriate to grasp the personal...
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