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Matteo Civitali's Eucharistic Christ restored, now featured in a dossier exhibition in Lucca

Matteo Civitali's Eucharistic Christ restored, now featured in a dossier exhibition in Lucca

The Villa Guinigi National Museum in Lucca presents from June 5 to November 2, 2025 the exhibition-dossier Rebirth of a Masterpiece. Matteo Civitali's Eucharistic Christ returned to the city, in which the protagonist is precisely Matteo Civitali's sc...
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British government imposes temporary export ban on an early masterpiece by Botticelli

British government imposes temporary export ban on an early masterpiece by Botticelli

The British government has imposed a temporary export ban on a Sandro Botticelli painting in an effort to prevent the work from leaving the United Kingdom. The ban aims to provide time for a gallery or national institution to acquire the Virgin and C...
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The rediscovered 15th-century fresco and the latest news from the Palazzo Nardini construction site in Rome

The rediscovered 15th-century fresco and the latest news from the Palazzo Nardini construction site in Rome

Serendipity, the British would say. It is the word they use to refer to those totally unexpected discoveries, exceeding expectations, that come when you were looking for something else. It is more than a fortuitous finding: it is a surprising outcome...
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Milan rediscovers Andrea Solario. This is what the beautiful exhibition at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum looks like.

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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Naples, discovery of a 15th-century chapel under the cathedral

Naples, discovery of a 15th-century chapel under the cathedral

In Naples, the past comes alive again from the foundations of its history. In the lower level of the cathedral, hidden for decades behind a wall and concealed even from collective memory, a 15th-century chapel has been rediscovered. It is the Minutol...
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When artists dissected corpses (and anticipated science)

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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Italia Nostra and the restoration of three Renaissance sculptures at Milan's Duomo Museum

Italia Nostra and the restoration of three Renaissance sculptures at Milan's Duomo Museum

Italia Nostra returns to support Milan's artistic heritage with an intervention that restores new light to three precious sculptures in Milan's Duomo Museum. Thanks to the contribution of the Milan branch of the association, established in 1955 to pr...
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Siena, Giovanni di Paolo's two panels shine again after restoration

Siena, Giovanni di Paolo's two panels shine again after restoration

Two panels by one of the most important Sienese masters of the 15th century, Giovanni di Paolo (Siena, c. 1403 - 1482), shine in Siena: the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, the two panels by Giovanni di Paolo from the Oratory of Saints John and ...
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