Mannerism - 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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Parmigianino's self-portrait on display at Parma's Pilotta (or maybe not)

From Oct. 18, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026, the Complesso monumentale della Pilotta in Parma opens to the public, in Room 14 of the National Gallery, a dossier exhibition that invites a direct comparison between two rarely seen works kept in the museum's st...
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Giulio Romano in Genoa: Saint Stephen's altarpiece and cartoon from the Vatican Museums on display

Genoa welcomes an exhibition dedicated to one of the great protagonists of Italian Mannerism, Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi de' Iannuzzi; Rome, 1499 - Mantua, 1546). In fact, from September 20, 2025 to January 17, 2026, theLigustica Academy of Fine Art...
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The Royal Museums of Turin acquire two important paintings by Moncalvo

From Thursday, September 11, 2025, visitors to the Royal Museums of Turin will find an exhibition itinerary enriched by two new and valuable acquisitions. In the Galleria Sabauda, on the second floor, in a space located in front of the bookshop, two ...
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Constraint on Prospero Fontana's painting: portrait of elderly gentleman remains in Italy

The Regional Administrative Tribunal for Lazio has definitively banned the export of the Portrait of an Elderly Gentleman with Fur Coat and Collar, a work attributed to Bolognese Mannerist Prospero Fontana (Bologna, 1512 - 1597). The Superintendency ...
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Rooms dedicated to Reni, Carracci and Mannerism rearranged and renovated at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna unveils to the public as of July 4, 2025 the refurbishment of its rooms dedicated to Guido Reni, the Carraccis and Mannerism. Temporarily closed from Feb. 17 to July 3 to allow work under the National Recovery and ...
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Domenico Beccafumi's cartoons for Siena Cathedral: the idea that anticipates light in marble

Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico Beccafumi ...
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Cremona and Piacenza rediscover the Malosso. What the double exhibition on Giovanni Battista Trotti looks like.

Puffy, full, fake, soft, touchable clouds. Folds that look like wet metal. Ivory faces, slightly flushed, delicate, expressive. He is the easily recognizable artist Malosso, and it is probably also to this recognizability that we owe the success that...
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