Six hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

A major retrospective in Ghent on 40 women artists active in the Netherlands between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Museum of Fine Arts Ghent continues its commitment to highlighting women artists in 2026. After the exhibitions devoted to the Baroque and the theme Women in Art, the focus is now on Unforgettable (March 7 to May 31, 2026), a major retrospective ...
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Seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting on display in Forte dei Marmi from the De Vito Foundation

The works of the De Vito Foundation on display in Forte dei Marmi for an exhibition dedicated to the Neapolitan seventeenth century: from March 27 to September 27, 2026, the rooms of Forte Pietro Leopoldo I will in fact host Pittura a Napoli dopo Car...
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Ferrara, Avanzi's 17th-century canvas returns to Certosa after 80 years. And we see Sgarbi in public again

After an absence of more than eighty years, the monumental canvas by Giuseppe Avanzi (Ferrara, 1645 - 1718) returns to the presbytery of the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa in Ferrara, and the city can thus return to see one of its most signifi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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