Five hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

At the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, two Velázquez masterpieces from London's National Gallery

From April 24 to July 14, 2024 at the Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, an Intesa Sanpaolo museum, it is possible to admire the two masterpieces by Diego Velázquez (Seville, 1599 - Madrid, 1660) Immaculate Conception and St. John the Evangelist on ...
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London, Titian's twice-stolen early masterpiece goes up for auction at Christie's

An early masterpiece by Titian (Pieve di Cadore, 1488/1490 - Venice, 1576), Rest during the Flight into Egypt, makes its market debut after more than 145 years at Christie's Old Masters Part I auction on July 2, 2024. The work has an estimate of 15-2...
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Arezzo, a rich program of exhibitions to celebrate Giorgio Vasari 450 years after his death

Arezzo is preparing to celebrate one of its greatest sons, Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574) on the 450th anniversary of his death, with a long schedule of dedicated events: Arezzo. The City of Vasari, this is the name of the program, is...
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Sansepolcro, restoration of Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition ends after seven years

The precious altarpiece of the Deposition of Christ, a 16th-century masterpiece by Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo; Florence, 1494 - Fontainebleau, 1540), has finally returned to Sansepolcro after seven years, during which it underwent ...
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Precious Alexandria: an exhibition on the city crossroads of the arts between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Alexandria as an important crossroads of the arts between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a meeting place for artists from different parts of Europe, a significant center for the dissemination of Counter-Reformation art, as well as a center ...
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Bologna, important painting by Lavinia Fontana restored at Pinacoteca Nazionale

In Bologna , the restoration of an important painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), theApparition of the Madonna and Child to Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Margaret, Agnes, Ursula and Barbara, kept at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di ...
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A fresh look at some famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Martin Kemp's lecture

Leonardo da Vinci is a "painter of light." This is how art historian Professor Martin Kemp, a longtime lecturer at Oxford University and one of the foremost experts on the great Tuscan artist, defined him during a lecture entitled Leonardo da Vinci....
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The Taking of Christ from the Ruffo collection, an invention of Caravaggio, is on display in Naples

At the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, from March 2 to June 16, 2024, the exhibition of the painting The Taking of Christ, an important version of a well-known work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, curated by Francesco Petrucci and Don Gianni Citro....
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