Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Boccaccio Boccaccino's luminous renaissance: what the Cremona exhibition looks like

On September 27, 2023, a painting depicting two saints, a bishop and a portrait of the patron made its appearance at theMillon auction held in Cremona: it was the only surviving fragment of Boccaccio Boccaccino's so-called Fodri Altarpiece. Also know...
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U.S. transfer for Giovanni Bellini's Pieta from Rimini City Museum

U.S. transfer for Rimini's Bellini. In fact, from January 15 to April 19, 2026, Giovanni Bellini 's Pietà preserved at the Museo della Città di Rimini will be exhibited for the first time in the United States: the exhibition will be hel...
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A nightmare for Botticelli. If the painter is accused of inventing feminicide.

As of October 19, 2025, French radio stations are broadcasting Un mauvais rêve de SandroBotticelli (A Bad Dream of Botticelli https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/allons-y-voir/un-mauvais-reve-de-sandro-botticelli-6063000). The fir...
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St. John's Hospital in Bruges, the museum that holds Memling's works

Bruges, the iconic city of Flanders, is home to one of the oldest and best-preserved health institutions in Europe: theHospital of St. John, or Sint-Janshospitaal. Founded around the middle of the 12th century, with the earliest documentation dating ...
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Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

The major 2025 exhibition on Fra Angelico in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026) had, among others, the merit of offering the public, in the first room of Palazzo Strozzi, a kind of ideal reconstruction ...
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A portrait of Correggio. Gianfrancesco Gonzaga is the enigmatic "gentleman with the petrarchino"

Since my studies have sometimes led me to take an interest in Correggio's particular subjects and in his relations with the Gonzaga courts, with which he had an evocative continuity of relations, I can now present a result that illuminates a work of ...
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At the Diocesan Museum of Cremona the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Boccaccio Boccaccino, 500 years after his death

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara?, 1462/ante August 22, 1466 - Cremona, 1525), the Diocesan Museum of Cremona presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist, scheduled from Octo...
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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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