In Rome, the restoration of Casa Litta - Palazzo Orsini, one of the most interesting buildings in the capital's historic center, has been completed: the rooms of the palace, now home to theEmbassy of the Order of Malta to the Holy See, will o...
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Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1921, the physiologist Mariano Luigi Patrizi published a booklet that attempted a psychological reconstruction of Caravaggio's personality from his works: it was entitled Un pittore criminale (A Criminal Painte...
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The Albertina in Vienna preserves a drawing, widely attributed to Michelangelo, with some studies of intertwined hands: in the exact center of the sheet, well detached from everything else, stands a male torso, with arms folded and hands join...
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There are precise reasons why there are only three works by Vincent van Gogh in Italian public collections: the Gardener and theArlesian in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, and the Breton Women in the Galleria ...
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After a full fourteen years of closure , the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome will reopen to the public in March 2021. The famous structure dates back to the first century BC, and was erected at the behest of the founder of the principality, Oct...
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In the early sixteenth century an Umbrian noblewoman, Atalanta Baglioni, found herself involved as much in a bloody episode that destroyed her family, profoundly marking the history of the city of Perugia, as in the artistic affair that contr...
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Many art historians like to define the great Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) as the first superintendent in history, and it is not a stretch to say that his figure constitutes one of the fulcrums of the history of monument protection i...
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"Tu ch'entri qua pon mente parte a parte e dimmi poi se tante meraviglie sien fatte per inganno o pur per arte," sentences one sphinx, and the other: "Chi con ciglia inarcate et labra stretto non va per questo loco manco ammira le famose del mond...
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