Six hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

A Vermeer masterpiece arrives in Turin from the Rijksmuseum: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter at Palazzo Madama

Coming to Turin 's Palazzo Madama from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will be Johannes Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, starring from March 5 to June 29, 2026 in a new project entitled Encounter with the Masterpiece. The initiative inaugurates...
Read more...

Bartolomeo Cesi, Bologna rediscovers the poet of silence: what the Civic Museum exhibition looks like

In order to enter the ascetic universe of Bartolomeo Cesi it is necessary to abandon on the threshold any sort of prejudice connected with the times and places in which he painted, it is necessary to clear one's mind of any preconception about the ar...
Read more...

An exhibition in Clusone to rediscover an excellent 16th century painter, Domenico Carpinoni

Until May 3, 2026, MAT - Museo Arte Tempo in Clusone (Bergamo) dedicates the first monographic exhibition to one of the most significant protagonists of local and Bergamasque artistic history: Domenico Carpinoni (Clusone, 1566 - 1658). The exhibition...
Read more...

Rome, major exhibition at Palazzo Barberini on the link between Bernini and Maffeo Barberini

From February 12 to June 14, 2026, in Rome , the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica is hosting the exhibition Bernini e i Barberini, curated by Andrea Bacchi and Maurizia Cicconi, at Palazzo Barberini. The exhibition, held to coincide with the 400th a...
Read more...

World record for Artemisia Gentileschi: her self-portrait exceeds 5.6 million at Christie's

New world record for Artemisia Gentileschi. At Christie' s auction on Feb. 4, theSelf-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria fetched a price of $5,687,000 (4.8 million euros), more than doubling the minimum estimate and marking the highest result ev...
Read more...

Pontremoli Baroque 2026: two days among villas, palaces and hidden treasures

The countdown begins for Pontremoli Barocca 2026, the event that returns to introduce the public to the great concentration of Baroque art in the city and Lunigiana. Online presales are already available, while the two days of extraordinary openings ...
Read more...

National Gallery of Washington acquires Artemisia Gentileschi's Magdalene

The National Gallery of Art in Washington has announced the acquisition of Magdalene in Ecstasy, a rare painting made around 1625 by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, post-1654). The work, considered by scholars to be one of the pinnacles o...
Read more...

Rembrandt, a record-breaking lion: it is his most valuable drawing ever sold at auction

A drawing by Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669) depicting a young lion has made art market history by becoming the Dutch artist's most expensive work on paper ever sold at auction. The sheet, known as Young lion resting ("Young lion...
Read more...