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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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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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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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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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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A lost masterpiece by Luca Cambiaso (Moneglia, 1527 - El Escorial, 1585) resurfaces after centuries of oblivion and goes up for auction in Vienna at Dorotheum. It is a canvas depicting Diana and Callisto, and will be offered for sale on April 29, est...
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An important piece of Tuscan Mannerist painting returns to the heart of its homeland. As of today, the National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Arezzo can boast in its collections a valuable work by Francesco Morandini known as Poppi (Poppi, 154...
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The most famous image of Eleanor of Toledo, born Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici and duchess consort of Tuscany, is surely the one painted by Bronzino and now preserved in the Uffizi: the Portrait of Eleonora di ...
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