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The Last Dreams of Medieval Man. The frescoes of Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni in Urbino

The Last Dreams of Medieval Man. The frescoes of Lorenzo and Jacopo Salimbeni in Urbino

Medieval man dwells within a tangle of symbols, lives by visions that lie between the earthly and the divine, conceives the universe according to an order that is not our own. In the mind of medieval man drowns all geometry; there are no straight lin...
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Torcello Museum joins the network of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

Torcello Museum joins the network of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia

The Torcello Museum joins the network of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, strengthening the museum system of the lagoon and expanding the narrative of its history, from the oldest evidence of human presence to the development of medieval civil...
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Prato, Apollonio di Giovanni's Trinity restored. Back to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

Prato, Apollonio di Giovanni's Trinity restored. Back to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo

After six months of restoration , the Trinity attributed to Apollonio di Giovanni, a significant testimony to Florentine painting of the mid-15th century, has returned to the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Prato . The work, a cusped panel with a gold ...
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The incredible feat of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit: what the Pisa exhibition looks like

The incredible feat of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit: what the Pisa exhibition looks like

When there was the presentation to the press of the exhibition that the Opera della Primaziale of Pisa wanted to dedicate to the centenary of the relocation of Giovanni Pisano's pulpit in the cathedral, the piece that most attracted the attentions of...
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Altenberg Madonna enters Städel Museum: a historic acquisition for the museum

Altenberg Madonna enters Städel Museum: a historic acquisition for the museum

One of the most important acquisitions in the history of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, a watershed moment for the knowledge and enjoyment ofmedieval art in Germany: thus was presented this morning the acquisition of the Madonna and Child Enthr...
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With artificial intelligence rediscovered in the U.S. a 15th-century panel painting thought to be missing

With artificial intelligence rediscovered in the U.S. a 15th-century panel painting thought to be missing

The history of Europe's artistic heritage is dotted with dispersions that, for decades, have left unbridgeable gaps within monumental complexes and historical collections. However, contemporary technologies are offering unprecedented tools for piecin...
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Spoleto, restored the crypt of San Primiano

Spoleto, restored the crypt of San Primiano

Spoleto rediscovers one of its oldest and most meaningful places with the presentation this afternoon of the end of the restoration of the crypt of San Primiano, located inside the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. The restoration work on th...
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Restorations at Hôtel-Dieu in Toulouse, France, unearth a walled medieval mullioned window

Restorations at Hôtel-Dieu in Toulouse, France, unearth a walled medieval mullioned window

In the context of the restoration campaigns of the facades of theHôtel-Dieu in Toulouse , France, overlooking the Garonne River and started in 2023, the third tranche of the work, which began in 2025, revealed a remarkable archaeological discov...
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