Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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Florence, a major exhibition on Fra Angelico at Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco

From September 26, 2025 to January 25, 2026, Florence pays tribute to Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole, universally known as Beato Angelico, with a major exhibition spread between two venues: Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo di San Marco. The exhibition, titled...
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Story of Lucretia, the rape that radically changed the politics of ancient Rome

Lucretia 's is a tragic story. It is a story of rape in ancient Rome, but also of honor violated. And it is a story that ends in tragedy because so strong is the shame at the thought of being unjustly considered an adulteress, she who was completely...
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Fiesole, Beato Angelico's Crucifixion returns to view after major restoration

After a long and delicate conservation operation, Beato Angelico 's Crucifixion is finally back on view in the Convent of San Domenico in Fiesole (Florence). The work, of extraordinary artistic and spiritual importance, underwent a maintenance restor...
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Palazzo Barberini presents book on Correggio's "Unnamed Young Man"

OnFriday, June 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room on the second floor of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, there will be a presentation of the volume Correggio: the Young Unnamed from the Este, Sforza and Barberini Collections. Studies and Resea...
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Slovakia, third-world scenes! Ministry commandeers work attributed to Donatello in movie-like action

Do you remember the bust attributed to Donatello that popped up a few months ago in Slovakia, displayed at the Spiš Museum in Levoča and has been talked about for some time by us as well?Well, at the end of last May, the same marble bust attr...
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Cremona and Piacenza rediscover the Malosso. What the double exhibition on Giovanni Battista Trotti looks like.

Puffy, full, fake, soft, touchable clouds. Folds that look like wet metal. Ivory faces, slightly flushed, delicate, expressive. He is the easily recognizable artist Malosso, and it is probably also to this recognizability that we owe the success that...
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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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