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Rome, Villa Caffarelli will host an exhibition on the Farnese family in 16th century Rome

Rome, Villa Caffarelli will host an exhibition on the Farnese family in 16th century Rome

From February 11 to May 18, 2025, the exhibition I Farnese in Sixteenth-Century Rome will be hosted at the Capitoline Museums, Villa Caffarelli. Origins and fortune of a collection, curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce and Chiara Rabbi Bernard, promote...
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The image of power. The portrait of Eleanor of Toledo in Pisa.

The image of power. The portrait of Eleanor of Toledo in Pisa.

The most famous image of Eleanor of Toledo, born Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici and duchess consort of Tuscany, is surely the one painted by Bronzino and now preserved in the Uffizi: the Portrait of Eleonora di ...
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Buy for little money a portrait in Texas: it was a precious miniature by Lavinia Fontana

Buy for little money a portrait in Texas: it was a precious miniature by Lavinia Fontana

A miniature by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614) has resurfaced after two hundred years of oblivion: credit for the discovery goes to English antiquarian Nick Cox, owner of the Period Portraits gallery, which specializes in antique portrai...
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Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...
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Città di Castello has a new Luca Signorelli: returned to the master the Santa Cecilia Altarpiece after restoration

Città di Castello has a new Luca Signorelli: returned to the master the Santa Cecilia Altarpiece after restoration

A Renaissance masterpiece re-emerges from the dust of time. After a full restoration that revealed its authenticity, the St. Cecilia Altarpiece, housed in the Pinacoteca comunale of Città di Castello, has been given to Luca Signorelli and his ...
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Sebastiano del Piombo, the musician painter of the Renaissance: a monumental book on his career

Sebastiano del Piombo, the musician painter of the Renaissance: a monumental book on his career

Eclectic, ambitious, refined: let's talk about Sebastiano Luciani (Venice, 1485 - Rome, 1547), better known as Sebastiano del Piombo, among the most versatile and original artists of 16th-century Venice. And it is Sebastiano's art that is the focus o...
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London, Parmigianino's Vision of St. Jerome returns to view after a decade

London, Parmigianino's Vision of St. Jerome returns to view after a decade

For the first time in a decade, a masterpiece by Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola; Parma, 1503 - Casalmaggiore, 1540) is returning to public view at the National Gallery in London after careful conservation work: this is the Vision of S...
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Renaissance masterpieces in Fermo: exhibition on Adriatic culture at Palazzo dei Priori

Renaissance masterpieces in Fermo: exhibition on Adriatic culture at Palazzo dei Priori

Fermo celebrates its artistic heritage with the exhibition Renaissance in Fermo, a journey through the Adriatic Renaissance that pays tribute to one of the most fascinating periods in the city's thousand-year history. The exhibition, open to the publ...
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