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Florence and the First Wave of Globalization: Francesco Carletti’s Journey Around the World on Display

Even before the world truly became “global,” people, goods, knowledge, and cultures were already crossing the oceans along trade routes that connected distant continents. It is from this perspective that *Florence Global: The World of Fra...
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Inspiration from Europe: Three Exhibitions in Vicenza Explore Artistic Dialogues Between Italy and Germany, France, and Spain

“Ispirazione Europa: Artistic Dialogues Between the 19th and 20th Centuries” is launching in Vicenza —a new exhibition project sponsored by the City of Vicenza that aims to explore, through art, the formation and evolution of the European spirit fro...
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Annibale Carracci’s landscape, which caused quite a stir, was sold at the BIAF

Annibale Carracci’s *River Landscape with Boatmen* (Bologna, 1560–1609), perhaps the work that generated the most buzz during the 34th edition of the Florence International Antiques Biennale, which runs through October 4 at Palazzo Corsin...
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How the Image of St. Francis Changed Between the 16th and 17th Centuries: An Exhibition in Bologna

To mark the 800th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, the National Art Gallery of Bologna is dedicating an exhibition to the transformation of the saint’s image in Bolognese painting between the 16th and 17th centuries. From Octo...
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The enigmatic Renaissance Madonna of Magdala, removed in the 20th century from the hermitage of Cascio in Garfagnana, is now on the market

There is no trace of the composed reassurance found in much Renaissance art in the gaunt face of the Penitent Mary Magdalene that once stoodin the hermitage of Santa Maria Maddalena in Cascio, in Garfagnana. In this glazed terracotta sculpture, the s...
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A "Amorino" by Perin del Vaga Resurfaces: It Is a Fragment of a Major Achievement for Andrea Doria

An extraordinary and rare drawing on paper by Perin del Vaga ( Piero di Giovanni Bonaccorsi; Florence, 1501 – Rome, 1547) has resurfaced on the market, brought to the Florence International Antiques Biennale by the Genoa-based gallery Goldfi...
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Florence: Two Extremely Rare Medici Porcelain Pieces Join the Collections of the San Marco Museum

Two vases made in Florence during the second half of the sixteenth century bring to the forefront one of the most remarkable undertakings of the court of Francesco I de’ Medici: the attempt to produce in Europe the porcelain that had been impor...
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An exhibition in Arezzo traces eight centuries of the depiction of St. Francis in art

Eight hundred years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi, Arezzo is celebrating its historical and spiritual bond with the patron saint of Italy through a major exhibition dedicated to the evolution of his image in art. Paintings, sculptures, min...
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