From July 8 to Nov. 30, 2025, the city of Agrigento, the Italian Capital of Culture, will host at Villa Aurea the exhibition Treasures of Art from Italy's National Museums, an exhibition project designed to enhance the richness and dissemination of t...
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More than fifty years after its theft, the Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario (Chieti or Venice, c. 1465 - Naples, 1530), which had been stolen on the night of August 24-25, 1973, from the halls of the museum in the Dolomite capital along with seve...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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