Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Giorgio Vasari beyond the Lives: what the exhibition at the Capitoline Museums in Rome looks like

A chamber exhibition. It comes to be called that, borrowing the lexicon of chamber music: that designed for small ensembles and intimate spaces, more living rooms than concert halls. This is the hallmark of the exhibition Vasari and Rome, curated by ...
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Florentine students create a serios game to learn Latin, starring Beato Angelico

On Monday, May 25 at 9:30 a.m., at the Museum of San Marco in Florence, Ars et Anima, an innovative serious game (a digital game designed specifically for educational, informative and didactic purposes) conceived and developed by the students of the ...
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Beautiful portrait of Giovanni Battista Moroni discovered: the rediscovered clergyman

On Dec. 10, 2024, in the Capitolium auction room in Brescia, a painting was hammered out with an estimate of 2-3,000 euros and a generic attribution: "16th-century Lombard artist." Nothing more. Yet Enrico Cavaliere, founder of Hippeus Art Dealership...
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A private individual wins La Tebaide for 360,000 euros: sold at auction by Pandolfini

After more than half a century of absence from the market, The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico is back in the news, once again gaining attention on the market. The painting, which disappeared from circulation since the 1970s but was always conside...
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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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