Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

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 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

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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France blocks last-minute auction of rare Hans Baldung Grien drawing

One of the most eagerly anticipated sales of the year for the antique drawing market was to be held on the afternoon of March 23 in the historic setting of theHôtel Drouot in Paris. Instead, just hours before bids were to be opened, the auction...
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Rare head study by Hans Süss Von Kulmbach discovered: at auction at Giquello's for 200.00 euros

A rare study of a woman's head by Hans Süss von Kulmbach (Kulmbach, c. 1480 - Nuremberg, 1522), a contemporary of Albrecht Dürer, has been discovered and will be presented at auction by Giquello at Hôtel Drouot in Paris on March 31, 2...
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On the scaffolding of Michelangelo's Last Judgment: how the colors of the masterpiece are reborn

The action is quick and painless, the result immediate and comforting under the magnificent vault of the Sistine Chapel. That veil of white that has thickened exclusively over Michelangelo's Last Judgment, dulling the 391 figures painted by the maste...
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Leonardo da Vinci, the Three Views of Manly Heads on display at the Royal Museums of Turin

The Royal Museums of Turin are dedicating a new appointment to the genius of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 - Amboise, 1519) with the exhibition of the autograph drawing Three Views of a Manly Head with Beard, preserved at the Royal Library. The work...
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Raphael's Ecstasy of St. Cecilia flies from Bologna to the Metropolitan in New York

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna is preparing to bid a temporary farewell to one of the most celebrated masterpieces held in its collections. Raphael 's TheEcstasy of Saint Cecilia (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) will in fact be the protagonist of an ...
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