Renaissance Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Christie's is putting up for sale Ca' Dario, the... cursed house in Venice painted by Monet

In the Dorsoduro sestiere, along one of the best-known stretches of the Grand Canal in Venice, Ca' Dario, also known as Palazzo Dario, is now the subject of a proposed sale curated by Christie's International Real Estate. The building overlooks one o...
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Dragons in Tuscany: from mythology to the works of the great masters

The dragon, a mythical figure that has always populated the human imagination, has gone through centuries of iconographic transformations until it became the fire-breathing winged monster we know today. Its presence in the figurative arts recounts a ...
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Rome, new displays at Palazzo Braschi: Roman Muses and female painters return to view

The Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi presents to the public an important update of its exhibition itinerary, with the refurbishment of the Sala delle Muse and the Sala delle Pittrici. The two rooms, which will be inaugurated on Friday, December 5, a...
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Lempertz, Old Masters and Renaissance Italy at auction in Cologne.

Lempertz returns to the spotlight in Cologne with its traditional fall auction devoted to old masters and nineteenth-century paintings, scheduled for Nov. 22. The German house will present a selection of 190 lots spanning centuries of European art hi...
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Two restorations in Bolsena (Viterbo) unearth masterpieces by Benedetto Buglioni

An extraordinary opening of two restoration sites involving important Renaissance glazed and polychrome terracotta works attributed to Florentine sculptor Benedetto Buglioni (Florence, 1461 - 1521) was held in Bolsena (Viterbo) on Sunday, Oct. 26. Th...
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The Uffizi at Lucca Comics: renaissance wrestlers alongside Ken the Warrior

From 16th-century Florence to 1980s Japan, from the anatomical models of the Renaissance to the post-apocalyptic warriors of a cult manga: the link between distant eras finds a new declination at Lucca Comics & Games. Bridging the gap between two...
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Renaissance on display: from Leonardo to Michelangelo, drawings in Edinburgh

Edinburgh becomes the center of a journey into16th-century Italian art for a few months. At the King's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Drawing the Italian Renaissance exhibition opens today, Oct. 17, through March 1, 2026, an exhibition c...
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Michelangelo's River God returns to Florence's Accademia delle Arti del Disegno

From Oct. 19, 2025, Florence welcomes back one of the most extraordinary models of the Renaissance. The Fluvial God byMichelangelo, designed for the Medici tombs in the New Sacristy of San Lorenzo, returns to theAccademia delle Arti del Disegno, wher...
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