Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

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Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

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

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

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

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 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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Important work by Giovan Francesco Penni returns to Borghese Gallery after two centuries

Important work by Giovan Francesco Penni returns to Borghese Gallery after two centuries

A return that stitches up a fragment of Italian collecting history. In fact, theAllegory of Good Hope by Giovan Francesco Penni (Florence, 1488 - Naples, 1528) has returned to Rome in the collection of the Galleria Borghese after more than two centur...
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Who completed Michelangelo's first Christ of the Minerva? There is a proposal for attribution

Who completed Michelangelo's first Christ of the Minerva? There is a proposal for attribution

Who finished the First Christ of Minerva left unfinished by Michelangelo due to a defect in the marble? This is the knot that scholar Adriano Amendola of the University of Salerno has tried to untangle with a new and detailed study of his own, the re...
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Lucca's Holy Face temple restored: remains of medieval chapel and polychrome painting discovered

Lucca's Holy Face temple restored: remains of medieval chapel and polychrome painting discovered

Having concluded the restoration of the Holy Face of Lucca, the famous polychrome wooden crucifix dating back to the 9th century and kept for more than a thousand years in the Cathedral of San Martino, attention has shifted to the small temple that h...
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