Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Castiglione Olona, restored Magenta Madonna returns to Collegiate Museum

The Museum of the Collegiate Church of Castiglione Olona (Varese) adds a new piece to the path of protection and enhancement of its artistic heritage with the presentation of the restoration of the Magenta Madonna, a work that is a symbol of local po...
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The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico found after 50 years: will go to auction in Florence

A work that disappeared from circulation for more than half a century, but was never forgotten by art history, suddenly returns to the center of international attention. In fact, the Thebaid attributed to Beato Angelico (Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole, bor...
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Klesch Collection acquires early masterpiece by Sandro Botticelli

The Klesch Collection, a major British private collection, has announced the acquisition of the Madonna and Child Enthroned by Sandro Botticelli (Florence, 1445 - 1510), an important early work datable to between 1465 and 1470: the work will be on pu...
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Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

The Diocesan Museum of Capua (Caserta) presented the restoration of a polychrome wooden sculpture depicting a Madonna and Child attributed to sculptors Pietro Alemanno and Giovanni Alemanno and dated around 1480. The intervention is part of the 20th...
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Venice, Tintoretto masterpieces restored and relocated to San Giorgio Maggiore

The restoration of two monumental works by Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; Venice, 1518 - 1594), The Last Supper and The Jews in the Desert, two masterpieces from the late phase of the Venetian painter's career, now once again on view in the basilica of ...
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Martin Schongauer, at the Louvre the exhibition on the master of the late Middle Ages

Nicknamed "Martin Schön," or "the handsome Martin," by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, c. 1445 - Vieux-Brisach, 1491), one of the greatest German painters of the 15th century, returns to center stage with a major exhibition sched...
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An exhibition at Palazzo Venezia on Piero di Cosimo's Magdalene recounts the lives of women in the Renaissance

On April 17, 2026, the VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia will inaugurate the exhibition La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: art, history and women's lives in the Florentine Renaissance, set up in the rooms of the ancient kitchens of Rome's Palazzo V...
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Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another brings Antonello da Messina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479), a pivotal figure of the Italian Renaissance, back into the spotlight, following the recent return of his Ecce Homo to the market and the subsequent purchase of the panel by the Italian st...
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