Latium - Finestre sull'Arte

Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome: din of colored marbles and images of death

There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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Rome, the Salone di Pietro da Cortona refurbished at Palazzo Barberini

In Rome, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (National Galleries of Ancient Art) present the refurbishment of the Salone Pietro da Cortona in Palazzo Barberini: this majestic space, one of the most representative symbols of the Roman Baroque, reope...
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The little rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome: the perspective games of Andrea Pozzo as a requirement of faith

St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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The Farnese Palace in Caprarola, a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism

In Caprarola, a small village in Tuscia in the province of Viterbo, surrounded by the Cimini Mountains, is Palazzo Farnese, one of the most extraordinary residences built in Italy in the 16th century. It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant jewel...
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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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Major Caravaggio exhibition coming to Rome. "One of the most ambitious ever."

A jubilee exhibition on Caravaggio is coming to Rome's Palazzo Barberini. For now, not much is known: all that is known are the dates, March 7 to July 6, 2025, the title(Caravaggio 2025) and the names of the curators, namely Francesca Cappelletti (di...
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Rome, Egyptian blue ingot discovered at Domus Aurea: extremely rare find

In Rome , the Domus Aurea never ceases to amaze, yielding a new discovery that sheds light on the artistic workers of Nero's time. During recent archaeological investigations conducted in the monumental imperial residence, scholars identified two tan...
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Art in the Ludovisi papacy, among the shortest of the seventeenth century. What the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale looks like.

The most monumental altarpiece by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino was commissioned to the Cento painter in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, for the head altar of the north aisle of St. Peter's Basilica, where in 1606 the...
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