Lombardy - Finestre sull'Arte

Mantua, the Chamber of Cupid and Psyche shines: the masterpiece returns to view after restoration

Mantua rediscovers one of its masterpieces: the ceiling of the famous Chamber of Cupid and Psyche in Palazzo Te. The impressive pictorial cycle, the work of Giulio Romano and his workshop, created between 1526 and 1528, has been the subject of an ext...
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The church of San Lorenzo in Lodi, where time has carved layers of memory

We know from his notebooks that Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, in 1866, was in Lodi. For a field study, basically: a survey of everything that would flow first into the History of Painting in North Italy, written with Joseph Archer Crowe and publish...
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Lonato del Garda, 10 treasures to discover on the shores of the Lake

Lonato del Garda, a charming town with ancient roots, is revealed in the immediate Brescian hinterland of Lake Garda. With a history spanning as many as seven thousand years, this place offers an almost uninterrupted sequence of cultural evidence ran...
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Melegnano, restoration for one of the most important terracotta Compianti of the Lombard Renaissance

One of the most important sculptural groups of the Lombard Renaissance, the Lamentation over the Dead Christ preserved in the church of Saints Peter and Blaise in Melegnano (Milan), will undergo restoration. The announcement was made by Don Mauro Col...
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Forgotten for over a century, Malosso frescoes return to light

Almost all of the lost frescoes of the Salazar Chapel, a masterpiece by Giovanni Battista Trotti known as Malosso (Cremona, 1555 - Parma, 1619) that could once be seen in the Capuchin church in Regona, a hamlet of Pizzighettone (Cremona), where Don D...
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Near Mantua there is a fair that is 600 years old, and has been gathering madonnarians from around the world for 51

A very ancient fair that this year even celebrates 600 years of history, and the world's largest gathering of madonnari, who have been animating the fair for 51 years. We are talking about theAntichissima Fiera delle Grazie, which this year takes pla...
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Charnel houses, witches and castles: 6 chilling places to discover in Lombardy

Kicking off the new season of the Wednesday Addams series on Netflix, which has achieved great success with its dark aesthetic and gothic charm: for the occasion, we have selected six places in Lombardy that seem to have come straight out of an episo...
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Rosario Anzalone, director museums Lombardy: "with autonomy, for regional museums more funzuonal management"

The review dedicated to the new Regional Directorates National Museums endowed with financial autonomy reaches its last stage in Lombardy, to grasp further steps and reasons that have presided over this umpteenth reform in the long process of reorgan...
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