Nicknamed "Martin Schön," or "the handsome Martin," by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, c. 1445 - Vieux-Brisach, 1491), one of the greatest German painters of the 15th century, returns to center stage with a major exhibition sched...
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On April 17, 2026, the VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia will inaugurate the exhibition La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: art, history and women's lives in the Florentine Renaissance, set up in the rooms of the ancient kitchens of Rome's Palazzo V...
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Another brings Antonello da Messina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479), a pivotal figure of the Italian Renaissance, back into the spotlight, following the recent return of his Ecce Homo to the market and the subsequent purchase of the panel by the Italian st...
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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 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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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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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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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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