Four hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Prato, new room opens at the Museum of Palazzo Pretorio with works by 15th-century artists from deposits

Ten years have passed since the official opening ceremony of Prato's Praetorian Palace Museum, which opened on April 12, 2014, after a complex restoration of the Palace, which began in 1998 and has been home to the Civic Museum since 1912. And many p...
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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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Sandro Botticelli's Primavera, the very image of the beautiful season

When one thinks of a work of art that succeeds in embodying the essence of spring, probably the image that will most easily come to mind will be that of Botticelli's Primavera , at the risk of being a bit trite. Few paintings, however, have reached t...
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Mantua's Ducal Palace shows, in dialogue with Pisanello's Tournament, restored medieval and Renaissance weapons

The Ducal Palace in Mantua enriches its tour with a new exhibition section dedicated to a group of medieval and Renaissance weapons and "defensive pieces." Restored and restored for the occasion, these objects dialogue with Pisanello's wall paintings...
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Arezzo, work on Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross completed.

The maintenance and conservation overhaul that affected the frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca, a Renaissance masterpiece that adorns the Bacci Chapel of the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo, has been completed. As o...
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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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Giovanni Bellini's Baptism in Vicenza, a watershed between two eras

It all began with a pilgrimage. In the Jubilee year 1500, Battista Graziani, known as Garzadori, traveled to the Holy Land and, having arrived on the banks of the Jordan River, vowed to build a shrine, dedicating it to the saint who baptized Christ i...
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Leonardo da Vinci in Livorno? A disappointing, modest and unstructured exhibition

Needless to get around it: they have a problem with exhibitions in Livorno . After last year's lousy Banksy show , a laughable parade of twenty-six multiples by the British street artist that replicated a format already seen and revised far and wide ...
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