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After decades of absence, Vincenzo Vela's Liberty returns to Milan's Monumental Cemetery

After decades of absence, Vincenzo Vela's Liberty returns to Milan's Monumental Cemetery

After decades of absence, Liberty, a work in marble by Vincenzo Vela (Ligornetto, 1820 - Mendrisio, 1891) returned yesterday morning, Aug. 14, to occupy the place it was originally intended for, inside the Crypt of the Famedio of Milan's Monumental C...
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Pablo Picasso and Markus Raetz on exhibition in Mendrisio, Switzerland: two masters of engraving compared

Pablo Picasso and Markus Raetz on exhibition in Mendrisio, Switzerland: two masters of engraving compared

From Oct. 5, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026, the Mendrisio Museum of Art in Mendrisio, Switzerland, will present two complementary monographic exhibitions devoted to two seminal figures in twentieth-century graphic art: Pablo Picasso and Markus Raetz. The exh...
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A museum in Scotland displays more than 300 objects related to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

A museum in Scotland displays more than 300 objects related to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais

A private collection of artwork and personal items that belonged to Victorian painter John Everett Millais (Southampton, 1829 - London, 1896) and his wife Effie Gray, a native of Perth, Scotland, will be made available to the Perth Art Gallery in Sco...
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Marino Marini in Arezzo: a reflection on the drama of humanity. What the exhibition looks like

Marino Marini in Arezzo: a reflection on the drama of humanity. What the exhibition looks like

The name Marino Marini is associated with a well-defined subject with ancient origins: the rider riding his steed. Today we know that the domestication of the elegant equine took place some 5,500 years ago in Central Asia, and a very deep relationshi...
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Hayez's three versions of Pietro Rossi together for the first time: what the Pontremoli exhibition looks like

Hayez's three versions of Pietro Rossi together for the first time: what the Pontremoli exhibition looks like

Francesco Hayez's Pontremoli is suspended in the dream of a romantic Middle Ages, the first of Italy, made of immaculate castles and knights, velvet-clad ladies and blazing armor. Hayez, however, had never been to Pontremoli. Or if he was sometimes e...
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Henri Rousseau's enigma of the tiger in the 1891 painting Surprise!

Henri Rousseau's enigma of the tiger in the 1891 painting Surprise!

July 29 marks World Tiger Day, established to raise awareness for the protection of the endangered big cat. Among the many images that have celebrated its symbolic power and beauty over time, Surprise! by Henri Rousseau (Laval, 1844 - Paris, 1910) re...
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The VAT revolution in the Italian art market: the new prospects for the sector

The VAT revolution in the Italian art market: the new prospects for the sector

The landscape of the Italian art market has always been a complex interweaving of culture, passion and, inevitably, legal discipline of the sector. For years, operators and insiders have reported a gradual contraction of the sector, often blamed on o...
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When art went on the move: the Italy of experimental animation. What the exhibition in Rome looks like

When art went on the move: the Italy of experimental animation. What the exhibition in Rome looks like

From the Paleolithic masters who painted the bison race in the Lascaux caves to the "dynamic" little dog in Giacomo Balla's 1912 painting, painters have always dreamed of depicting movement. And they have often succeeded, thanks to tricks of perspect...
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