The General Directorate of Archives of the Ministry of Culture, the University of California, Irvine, and the CINECA Interuniversity Consortium have signed an agreement to support and develop IDEA – Isabella d’Este Archive, with the goal ...
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Florence once again explores the relationship between the Renaissance and Mannerism through the collection of a contemporary artist. From September 10, 2026, to January 5, 2027, Palazzo Medici Riccardi will host *Beyond the Renaissance*. Between D&uu...
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In the center of a roundel housed in the Uffizi Gallery, a mother offers her child a split pomegranate, its seeds a vivid red verging on purple. This is no ordinary gesture: in 15th-century Florentine religious painting, that fruit carries with it ce...
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Two charming winged cherubs support and lift into the air the green, precious banner of honor embroidered in gold, as if they wished to set apart the Virgin Mary, the Child, and Saint Christopher from the rural landscape surrounding them—the very lan...
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The Strait of Messina is unique in the world for its beauty and natural richness; it clearly surpasses the Bosphorus in quality of life, the Strait of Istanbul—which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, is heavily trafficked, and unsuitable ...
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The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired a previously unknown work by Lavinia Fontana ( Bologna, 1552 – Rome, 1614), considered one of the most successful Italian female artists active between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is a...
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Among the countless commentators on Correggio, I like to choose the sincere definition given by Édouard Pommier in a personal autograph letter to me in August 2006, where he considers him "an immense artist." Such a judgment coming from the then...
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A painting attributed to Federico Barocci ( Urbino, 1535–1612), which has resurfaced in Munich at the Hampel auction house, could add a new and valuable piece to our understanding of the Urbino artist’s work. The painting, from a private ...
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