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Arezzo kicks off 62nd edition of Cortonantiquaria antiques show

Opening to the public from August 24 to September 8, 2024, is the 62nd edition of the Cortonantiquaria antiques exhibition at the Sant'Agostino Convention Center in Arezzo. Promoted by the Municipality of Cortona and Cortona Sviluppo with the artisti...
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Trent, inaugurated the Simonino Classroom to tell and remember the case of Simonino da Trento

The Simonino Chapel in Trento, located inside Palazzo Bortolazzi Larcher Fogazzaro on Via del Simonino, becomes Aula del Simonino: it had been bequeathed to FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano by Marina Larcher Fogazzaro in 2018 so that it could be r...
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Florence, Donatello's bronze group with Donatello's Judith and Holofernes in Palazzo Vecchio restored

Donatello 's bronze depicting Judith and Holofernes, restored thanks to the support of Friends of Florence, was unveiled today in Florence's Sala dei Gigli in Palazzo Vecchio. The intervention, lasting a total of about ten months, was divided into tw...
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The debut of Sassetta, elegant painter of the 15th century. What the Massa Marittima exhibition looks like

It is the Maremma's turn to launch Stefano di Giovanni known as Sassetta, an elegant protagonist of early 15th-century Sienese painting, into the crowded arena of ancient art exhibitions. Never before had a monographic exhibition been devoted to this...
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At the Castello del Buonconsiglio, an exhibition will investigate the D?rer case and the origins of the Alpine Renaissance

From July 6 to October 13, 2024, the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento will host the exhibition Dürer and the Renaissance in the Alps, curated by Bernard Aikema, Laura Dal Prà, Giovanni Maria Sara, and Claudio Salsi, and promoted by th...
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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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The work found in the deposits of the Correr Museum for the first time on display in Piazzola sul Brenta

Last December in the deposits of the Correr Museum in Venice an important late 15th-century painting depicting the Madonna and Child, St. John and Six Saints was found: now, after a long and complex restoration supported by the G. E. Ghirardi Onlus, ...
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How Pandolfo Petrucci's patronage changed the face of Siena in the Renaissance

A patron so splendid that he earned the appellation "Magnifico." Pandolfo Petrucci (Siena, 1452 - San Quirico d'Orcia, 1512) was one of the most powerful men in late 15th-century Siena , and his activities in the arts contributed substantially to sh...
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