Lucca - Finestre sull'Arte

Lucca's Holy Face restored: now looks as it did from the 9th to the 17th century

The restoration of the Holy Face, the monumental polychrome wooden crucifix that has been kept in Lucca Cathedral for more than a millennium, has been completed. The work restored the sculpture to the appearance it had from the 9th to the 17th centur...
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Carolina Bonaparte's historic villa is for sale in the hills of Lucca

On the hills surrounding Lucca, an 18th-century villa of great historical and architectural value, which belonged to Carolina Bonaparte (Ajaccio, 1782 - Florence, 1839), Napoleon 's sister and queen of Naples, is offered for sale. The mansion, manage...
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In Lucchesia, a restoration resurfaces a forgotten Renaissance fresco

An important fragment of Lucca and Tuscan art history resurfaces from the walls of the church of San Martino in Migliano, a hamlet in the municipality of Camaiore, Valfreddana, a few kilometers from Lucca. It is here that, following restoration, a fr...
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Lucca, unveiled the project for the new Lucca Center for the Arts. Over ten million euro investment

The Lucca ETS Center for the Arts Foundation today unveiled plans to create the new Lucca Center for the Arts, a museum hub with an international scope designed to host high-level exhibitions and events. The initiative aims to enrich and complete the...
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In Lucca, among the splendors of Palazzo Mansi and its National Museum.

He had been to Lucca, the father of American realist literature. William Dean Howells had arrived in Lucca one day in April, leaving from Pisa under a sun that already at eight o'clock in the morning seemed hot and sickening, he who was used to the c...
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Digitized and accessible to all the letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi

Digitized letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi: thanks to a memorandum of understanding between the president of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Marcello Bertocchini, and the president of the Fondation Napoléon, Victor-André...
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Torre del Lago, fundraiser launched to restore the Giacomo Puccini Garden

In 2024, Italy celebrated an important anniversary linked to the figure of Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858 - Brussels, 1924): the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. And today, as 2024 draws to a close, the Simonetta Puccini Foundation is launchi...
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Three... Uffizi dragons arrive at Lucca Comics&Games for 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons

The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most famous fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, by presenting three 16th- and 17th-century engravings depicting the legendary monster, from works by Titian (Pi...
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