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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A sumptuous banquet, a young woman seated before a lavishly set table, maids and musicians gathered around her, and, in the background, colonnades opening onto the landscape; all around, a rich border featuring cherubs, friezes, and floral…
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In the Florence of the Medici, Artemisia Gentileschi solidified her artistic identity, measuring herself against the great masters of the time and carving out a place for herself in a cultural milieu dominated by men. The exhibition…
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A world map and five large geographical maps created in the Netherlands in the 17th century are once again on display at Palazzo Spinola in Genoa, following a restoration project that lasted over a year. The works, part of a collection of…
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Rembrandt reinterpreted the ancient world in the light of his own time, transforming figures, stories, and models from Greco-Roman culture into images with a strong personal imprint: This fundamental yet still relatively unexplored…
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The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has pulled off a major coup by acquiring an important portrait by Guido Reni ( Bologna, 1575–1642)—that of Cardinal Giacomo Sannesi. The work, which had long been incorrectly attributed, was…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art baroque art Mosaic Six hundred
The exhibition in Cento is truly dazzling, focusing on that ancient and fascinating technique that over the centuries came to be known as “painting with colored glass”: that is, an extremely refined method of producing color images that…
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