Three hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

At the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the restored Vatican Fragment, the only one remaining of a Giottesque cycle

From July 29 to Nov. 1, 2025, the Museo dell'Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence will host, as part of the program "Caring for Art. Restorations on display," a work of extraordinary relevance to the artistic and academic scene: the so-called Vatic...
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Padua, at the Reggia Carrarese an evening of frescoes, music and fashion inspired by Padua's 14th century

Padua 's Reggia Carrarese returns to the center of the city's cultural scene with a new initiative open to the public. On Friday, June 27, 2025, at 9 p.m., Guariento in Musica will take place, an event that proposes a journey of rediscovery of the sp...
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John of Rimini's Last Judgment to be restored: memorandum of understanding between municipality and diocese

With the official signing of the memorandum of understanding between the Mayor of Rimini Jamil Sadegholvaad and Bishop Nicolò Anselmi, the process of enhancing the value of one of the most important masterpieces of Rimini's artistic heritage, ...
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Prato, Maestro di Mezzana's triptych enters exhibition itinerary at Palazzo Pretorio Museum

The Museum of Palazzo Pretorio in Prato has been enriched in its exhibition itinerary by a 14th-century masterpiece, thanks to the purchase of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Prato: it is the Madonna Enthroned with Child between Saints Ludovico ...
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Viboldone Abbey, monastic peace amid the chaos of Milan's suburbs

On the one hand, the high-rise buildings of San Giuliano Milanese, the results of the 'building expansionism of the 1960s, the straight line of the railroad, the sequence of banks, grill shops, driving schools, turkish kebabs, hairdressers, furniture...
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Florence, an exhibition at Santa Croce on the iconography of the stigmata of St. Francis

From December 3, 2024 to March 30, 2025, the Winter Refectory of Santa Croce in Florence will host the exhibition The Blooming Cross and the Stigmata of Francis, dedicated to the iconography of the Stigmata of St. Francis between the mid-13th century...
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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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