Exhibition reviews Ancient art baroque art Mosaic Six hundred
The exhibition in Cento is truly dazzling, focusing on that ancient and fascinating technique that over the centuries came to be known as “painting with colored glass”: that is, an extremely refined method of producing color images that…
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A significant archaeological discovery was made in Qesarat,in the Tepelenë area, in Albania, where an Italian-Albanian archaeological expedition has unearthed an architectural complex featuring six floors decorated with polychrome…
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In 1616, Pope Paul V Borghese officially bestowed an exceptional honor upon Marcello Provenzale, describing him—in the Rome of the nascent Baroque era—as the inventor of “a new style of mosaic-making that is quite different from and far…
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Starting Tuesday, July 28, 2026, the Capocolonna National Archaeological Park will reopen the Balneum—the ancient Roman bath complex that houses the famous Dolphin Mosaic—to the public, following the completion of periodic scheduled…
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Opening to the public from Saturday, April 18, 2026, are the Mosaics of Flight preserved inside theformer ForliAeronautical College, at the end of a restoration that returns of one of the most extensive mosaic cycles of the Italian…
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The mosaic with an erotic scene that had been returned in July 2025 to the Pompeii Archaeological Park did not actually come from the Vesuvian area, but from a Roman villa in the Marche region. The provenance was confirmed by subsequent…
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Interviews Contemporary art Mosaic Ravenna
In recent months, there has been much talk in Ravenna about the Floor that Nicola Montalbini (Ravenna, 1986) created for the Biennale del Mosaico Contemporaneo: installed at Porta Adriana, his mosaic has quickly transcended the exhibition…
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Do you rememberIl Pavimento, the large mosaic designed by Nicola Montalbini(we talked about it here) and installed inside Porta Adriana, one of the historic entrances to the city of Ravenna and passageway to the main pedestrian artery of…
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