Two new works attributed to Caravaggio in just twenty-four hours: a record, and it happened between yesterday and this morning. Yesterday, November 7, in Montepulciano, art historian Gianni Papi attributed to Michelangelo Merisi a portrait…
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Four hundred years after the completion of the large altarpiece for Brescia’s Duomo Nuovo, Palma il Giovane returns to the forefront of the city’s cultural scene. To mark the holiday season, the Zani House Museum in Cellatica…
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The *Portrait of a Gentleman in Black* is back in the news ; a few years ago, a hypothesis was put forward attributing it to Caravaggio. The work, housed at the Museo Civico – Pinacoteca Crociani in Montepulciano ( Siena), had hung…
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Interviews Ancient art Dutch art Five hundred Six hundred
Witches, demons, monsters, and apparitions constitute one of the most distinctive aspects of the visual culture of the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries—an imagery that art history has often, almost automatically…
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In Rome, , Francesco Borromini ’s architectural white — with its warm and cool shades—is once again on display to visitors at Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, one of the masterpieces of Roman Baroque. Starting Tuesday, October 27, 2026…
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News Focus Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
A previously unpublished painting in a private collection abroad has been attributed to Caravaggio: it is believed to be a depiction of Demosthenes, specifically the “toga-clad orator”—that is,the orator whom, according to…
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A rare fresco painted on a round wicker mat, rather than on a wall, canvas, panel, or any other traditional support: this is what makes *Christ and the Samaritan Woman*, a work by Luca Giordano (Naples, 1634 –1705), which is now part…
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In Amsterdam, along one of the canals in the historic center, at 38 Oudezijds Voorburgwal, there is a 17th-century house that , from the outside, gives no hint of anything unusual. The facade, squeezed between the buildings of the old…
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