“Marine, you’re beautiful!”: that’s what a supporter in love with Marine Le Pen exclaimed in Orléans, “the city that symbolizes the fight againstdefeatism”¹, on October 25, 2026. This admiring…
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It will be the largest exhibition ever dedicated to Piero della Francesca: this is how the National Gallery in London announced it, noting that the exhibition will bring together, for the first time in centuries, some of Piero della…
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The collection of Lorenzo the Magnificent (Florence, 1449 – 1492) was much more than a collection of paintings and sculptures: among the works and objects preserved in the Medici residence on Via Larga in Florence were gems, cameos…
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What connects the compass held by the surveyor in Raphael’s *School of Athens* to a wooden object crafted today in a workshop in Urbino? At first glance, nearly five centuries separate the fresco painted in the Vatican Rooms from the work…
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Works and artists Ancient art Four hundred Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance Tuscany
“This is the true way to cook roasts.” Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Amboise, 1519) is not the sort of man to make such a categorical statement in a treatise on natural philosophy or a fortification design: in fact, he…
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Two virtually unknown paintings by Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara, before 1466 – Cremona, 1525) have come back into the spotlight among scholars and are now set to enrich the body of work of one of the leading figures of the…
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An important addition to the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery in Brescia: a painting depicting the Good Samaritan by Girolamo Romanino has been loaned to the Brescia Museums Foundation by the Tassara Foundation. The scene depicts one of the…
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Books Ancient art Books Renaissance
I fear that, at this point, it is no longer possible to identify the external agent responsible for Aldo Cazzullo’s nucleotide recombination. The mutagen that was able to transform this staid and routine columnist for the…
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