Three hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Two tablets by Pietro Lorenzetti found in France. They will go to auction

French auction house Tajan announces that it has rediscovered two important works by Pietro Lorenzetti (Siena, c. 1280 - 1348): these are two poplar wood tablets, depicting St. Sylvester and St. Helena, from the former Ramé Collection. They we...
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Simone Martini's Annunciation, a summit of the Sienese school.

On Jan. 10, 1799, Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi 'sAnnunciation left the small oratory of Sant'Ansano in Castelvecchio in Siena, also known as the church of the Prisons of Sant'Ansano, and departed for Florence, where it was to reach the Uffizi by or...
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On the scaffolding of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's masterpiece. When restoration becomes an opportunity for study

Holder of an immense cultural and artistic heritage,Italy is continually called to account for the preservation of this extraordinary fragile and varied wealth, which would continually need attention to survive the centuries. But due to resou...
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"La Madonnina quasi persiana" by Vitale degli Equi at the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan.

Roberto Longhi had called it "the almost Persian Madonnina who seems to be waiting to give the Child a lesson in the art of perfumes." Vitale degli Equi's Madonna and Child is indeed one of the most delightful objects in the Poldi Pezzoli Mus...
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Florence, Palazzo Davanzati to close for three months for complete museum refurbishment

The Museum of Palazzo Davanzati in Florence will be completely refurbished and for this reason will close to the public from March 21 to June 23, 2022: more than 20 years after the last conservative intervention, the museum will undergo works that wi...
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Giotto, the Santa Maria Novella Crucifix: the first real Christ on the Cross in Italian painting

In the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella is a work that, at the end of the 13th century, marked a caesura in the history of Italian art. Entering the church, raising our gaze along the nave, we can in fact admire a painted cross belong...
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The tribulated history of the Mercatello Cross by Giovanni da Rimini, a masterpiece of the 14th century

By the signature on its vertical arm alone, the painted cross preserved in the church of San Francesco in Mercatello sul Metauro, a village in the Marche Apennines halfway between Urbino and Sansepolcro, could be considered an exceptional work, b...
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When Giottesque culture arrived in Mantua. The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

It is difficult, with the Renaissance splendors that invade the collective imagination whenever one thinks of the arts in Mantua, to imagine that the city had a fruitful artistic life even before the arrival of the various Mantegna, Leon Bat...
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