Five hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Milan rediscovers Andrea Solario. This is what the beautiful exhibition at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum looks like.

One work alone, the Poldi Pezzoli'sEcce Homo , would be enough to understand what kind of artist Andrea Solari was. All it would take is that Christ so ideal and so deeply human, somewhere between Antonello and Leonardo, between the lenticular exacti...
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A seventeenth-century archbold sculpture between nature and art in the Horti of Pavia

Two eyes made of chestnuts, a nose shaped like a fig, cheeks resembling onions, a forehead resembling a quince, and an artichoke chin whose leaves bend to form two showy mustaches. It is The Keeper of the Kitchen Garden, an imposing Mannerist stone s...
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Venice, major discovery at Rialto: 16th century mural painting resurfaces on Grand Canal

In the heart of Venice, under the daily eyes of thousands of passersby and tourists, a forgotten fragment of history and art was hiding. Now, thanks to a careful and shared intervention, that fragment has returned to light. In fact, during restoratio...
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Savoldo incognito at Palazzo dei Diamanti

The recent exhibition on the sixteenth century in Ferrara curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli brought back to attention once again the Madonna and Child in Glory, Musician Angels and Saints Paul, a Saint, Matthew, Catherine of Alexandria a...
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Uncovered in Austria an unpublished masterpiece by Luca Cambiaso. It will go to auction

A lost masterpiece by Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia, 1527 - El Escorial, 1585) resurfaces after centuries of oblivion and goes up for auction in Vienna at Dorotheum. It is a canvas depicting Diana and Callisto, and will be offered for sale on April 29, est...
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The Splendors of the Farnese Collection. What the Capitoline Museums exhibition looks like

"All the statues of marble and metal and of every other matter, the office of the Madona illuminated in gold by the said Giulio Clovio et all his libraria in his palace in Rome from whence they cannot be moved or lent or sold or alienated in any way"...
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Important purchase for Arezzo National Museum: masterpiece by Poppi arrives

An important piece of Tuscan Mannerist painting returns to the heart of its homeland. As of today, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Arezzo can boast in its collections a valuable work by Francesco Morandini known as Poppi (Poppi, 154...
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When artists dissected corpses (and anticipated science)

In a paper preserved at the Royal Library, Leonardo da Vinci writes that, in order to be able to accurately draw the veins of the human body and have "full knowledge of them," he had "disposed of more than ten human bodies, destroying every other mem...
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