Lombardy - Finestre sull'Arte

For the 17th-century Peter Martyr Neri a restoration and exhibition in Cremona

In Cremona, the restoration of the large canvas depicting the Healing of the Blind Man Born by Pietro Martire Neri (Cremona, 1591 - Rome, 1661) has turned into an opportunity for a comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the Cremonese painter's w...
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The Portal of the Duchesses of the Certosa di Pavia will be restored thanks to Soroptimist's contribution

The Portal of the Duchesses of the Monumental Complex of the Certosa of Pavia is to be restored: the Regional Directorate National Museums Lombardy and Soroptimist International of Italy have announced the signing of a collaboration agreement aimed a...
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Stelvio Park: thousands of 210 million-year-old dinosaur footprints emerge in the Alps

In the heart of the central Alps, in an area that will be the focus of international attention in the coming years for the holding of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, scientific research is confronted with a discovery of exceptional magnitude. In V...
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Brescia, start of restoration of Moretto's Assumption in the Duomo Vecchio

On Monday, November 24, 2025, thestart of the restoration of the large altarpiece depicting theAssumption of the Virgin by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as il Moretto (Brescia, 1492/1495 - 1554), a masterpiece created between 1524 and 1526 and placed f...
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Boccaccio Boccaccino's luminous renaissance: what the Cremona exhibition looks like

On September 27, 2023, a painting depicting two saints, a bishop and a portrait of the patron made its appearance at theMillon auction held in Cremona: it was the only surviving fragment of Boccaccio Boccaccino's so-called Fodri Altarpiece. Also know...
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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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