Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

August snow and Marian visions: the legendary origin of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

A snowfall in the middle of summer. It happened, according to one legend, on the night of August 4-5, 358 A.D., when a blanket of fresh snow covered the Esquiline Hill in Rome. At the origin of the prodigy was adreamlike apparition of the Virgin, who...
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Restoration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure for Gian Francesco dalle Croci's high goldsmith's processional cross

The precious processional cross made in 1501 by Gian Francesco dalle Croci for the church of San Francesco will be transferred to Florence on July 29, where it will undergo a thorough restoration at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, a renowned institut...
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Belluno, Antonio Solario painting stolen in 1973 returned to Civic Museums

More than fifty years after its theft, the Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario (Chieti or Venice, c. 1465 - Naples, 1530), which had been stolen on the night of August 24-25, 1973, from the halls of the museum in the Dolomite capital along with seve...
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The Masterpiece for Milan 2025 will be Lorenzo Lotto's Nativity, on display at the Museo Diocesano

The Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum in Milan announces which will be the Capolavoro per Milano 20 25 coming to the museum from October 28, 2025, and its next exhibition dedicated to photography. This year, the protagonist of the 17th edition of M...
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A major exhibition in Pavia on the famous battle of 1525. From Capodimonte on loan the tapestries depicting it

The Civic Museums of the Visconti Castle in Pavia will host the major exhibition Pavia 1525: Arts in the Renaissance and the Tapestries of Battle from Sept. 19, 2025 to Jan. 11, 2026 to offer the public a broad look at the rich artistic and cultural ...
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Montepulciano celebrates the figure of Etruscan lucumon Porsenna. And his Head is back on display after 500 years

From July 10, 2025, to Jan. 6, 2026, the Crociani Civic Art Gallery Museum in Montepulciano will host the exhibition Porsenna between History and Legend, dedicated to the figure of the Etruscan lucumone, celebrated in historical sources, reinterprete...
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Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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Florence, a major exhibition on Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco

From September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026, Florence pays tribute to Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole, universally known as Beato Angelico, with a major exhibition spread between two venues: Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco. The exhibition, titled...
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