Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

St. John's Hospital in Bruges, the museum that holds Memling's works

Bruges, the iconic city of Flanders, is home to one of the oldest and best-preserved health institutions in Europe: theHospital of St. John, or Sint-Janshospitaal. Founded around the middle of the 12th century, with the earliest documentation dating ...
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Holy Trinity from Lorenzo Monaco to Beato Angelico: the secret workshop of the Renaissance

The major 2025 exhibition on Fra Angelico in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026) had, among others, the merit of offering the public, in the first room of Palazzo Strozzi, a kind of ideal reconstruction ...
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A portrait of Correggio. Gianfrancesco Gonzaga is the enigmatic "gentleman with the petrarchino"

Since my studies have sometimes led me to take an interest in Correggio's particular subjects and in his relations with the Gonzaga courts, with which he had an evocative continuity of relations, I can now present a result that illuminates a work of ...
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At the Diocesan Museum of Cremona the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Boccaccio Boccaccino, 500 years after his death

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara?, 1462/ante August 22, 1466 - Cremona, 1525), the Diocesan Museum of Cremona presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist, scheduled from Octo...
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Renaissance on display: from Leonardo to Michelangelo, drawings in Edinburgh

Edinburgh becomes the center of a journey into16th-century Italian art for a few months. At the King's Gallery at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Drawing the Italian Renaissance exhibition opens today, Oct. 17, through March 1, 2026, an exhibition c...
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Florence celebrates 18th-century artist Thomas Patch and his take on the Middle Ages and Renaissance

On the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Patch (Exeter, 1725 - Florence, 1782), Florence dedicates an exhibition to the English artist that explores his relationship with the city and his publishing activities, revealing a crucial chapter in t...
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Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum showcases graphic works from the Renaissance to the 1900s, including Leonor Fini's corpus

From November 22, 2025 to March 15, 2026, the Museo Villa Bassi Rathgeb in Abano Terme (Padua) will host the exhibition Leonor Fini and the Bassi Rathgeb Graphic Collection. Signs and Inventions from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century, curated ...
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All the Contradictions of Beato Angelico. What the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi and San Marco looks like.

It is safe to assume that John Ruskin had not grasped the paradox inherent in the compliment he had intended for Blessed Angelico when he wrote that Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole formed a class of his own, meaning that "he was not an artist proper, but an...
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