Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Very rare Renaissance drawing by Hans Baldung Grien discovered: goes to auction

A major event for the art market and for the history of Renaissance drawing is being prepared in Paris. On Monday, March 23, 2026, at theHôtel Drouot, the auction house Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés, in collaboration with the B...
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Farewell to Augusto Gentili, among the foremost experts on the Venetian Renaissance

Art historian Augusto Gentili, one of the foremost experts on the art of the Venetian Renaissance, a leading scholar on Titian and a master of several generations of art historians, passed away today at the age of 82. The news was broken by Ansa. Bor...
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The rediscovered castle: Palazzo Madama from the Roman Age to the Middle Ages

Before becoming the home of the Royal Madames, before being associated with the history of the Savoy family and the architectural interventions of Filippo Juvarra, Palazzo Madama was a castle. It is from this observation that the exhibition The Redis...
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A famous Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina at auction at Sotheby's: estimate of 15 million

It is sure to be one of the most important auctions of the year: an Ecce Homo by Antonello da Mess ina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479) will go on sale at Sotheby 's in New York on February 5, with an estimate of €10-15 million. This is a rare sale that alr...
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All the portraits of Jan van Eyck reunited for the first time: will happen in 2026 in London

For the first time in history, all portraits painted by Jan van Eyck (Maaseik, 1390 - Bruges, 1441) will be brought together in a single exhibition. It will happen at the National Gallery in London, which from Nov. 21, 2026 to April 11, 2027 will hos...
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In autumn 2026, the Uffizi Galleries will dedicate a major and historic exhibition to Lorenzo the Magnificent

This fall 2026 the Uffizi Galleries will present Magnifico 1492, a major exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most celebrated figure of the Medici dynasty. The exhibition aims to be an authentic and detailed reconstruction, the most e...
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Jacopo Bassano's rhetoric-free Nativity that anticipated Caravaggio

The happy event has taken place: the Virgin lifts two flaps of the white cloth covering the cradle inside which lies the sleeping newborn Child, to reveal Him to the shepherds who have come to adore Him along with their lambs, an ox and a dog. One, ...
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Louvre, a Lombard Renaissance masterpiece is reborn: the Portal of Palazzo Stanga

After more than a century of display in the halls of the Louvre's sculpture department, where Michelangelo's Prisoners are located, the Portal of Palazzo Stanga, a 15th-century masterpiece attributed to Pietro da Rho (Rho, c. 1465-after 1513) and com...
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