Six hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Louvre announces major Francisco de Zurbarán retrospective for this fall

From Oct. 7, 2026 to Jan. 25, 2027, the Louvre Museum will pay tribute to one of the greatest protagonists of seventeenth-century Spanish painting with the exhibition Zurbarán 1598-1664, staged in the Hall Napoléon. The exhibition proje...
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Bartholomew Bimbi, the painter who turned fruits and vegetables into marvels

The Villa della Topaia, close to the better-known Medici residences of Castello and Pietraia, still bears the signs of the time when it was a casino of rest and delights for Cosimo III. Two elegant cartouches, placed in the hall of honor, accommodate...
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Venice, Madonna del Parto by Jacopo Palma il Giovane restored

The large altarpiece of the Madonna del Parto by Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Jacopo Negretti; Venice, 1549 - 1628), now located in the church of San Geremia in Venice, returns to the center of critical and historical attention after a conservation inter...
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Caravaggio, a major exhibition in Detroit in 2027 on his relationship with models: 25 works

A new key to interpreting the work of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610): this is what will be offered in a year's time, from March 21 to July 18, 2027, by a major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, entitled ...
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Pietro Bellotti, a study day at MarteS revives research on the painter

The MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, will host on Saturday, May 16, 2026, a day of studies dedicated to Pietro Bellotti, a painter active in the seventeenth century between Lombardy and Veneto, who h...
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Genoa, Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari's San Nicolosio Altarpiece returns restored to its original location

After being restored and displayed at the Strada Nuova Museums in Genoa as part of the exhibition Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari Restored. Unpublished Paintings and Drawings Around the San Nicolosio Altarpiece, Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari 's altarpiece de...
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Is this Saint Dorothy by Artemisia Gentileschi that will go to auction in France?

An unpublished painting to be attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi? That's what the French auction house Rouillac is convinced of, which next June 7, at the Château de Villandry in the Loire Valley, will present a Saint Dorothy associated with the lof...
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Caravaggio and his models: a survey of sources and reconstructions of female figures

The meeting Beyond the Canvas will be held on May 5 in the Sala di Liegro of Palazzo Valentini in Rome. Caravaggio's Roman Models, an appointment dedicated to the analysis of one of the most discussed aspects of the production of Michelangelo Merisi ...
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