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Urbino, what to see: the 10 places to visit in the city of the Renaissance

Urbino, a city located in the hills of the Marche region, has gained international fame for its extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage. However, its notoriety is not only due to its artistic riches, but also to its history and the key role it p...
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The Santini Codex, a treasure of the Urbino Renaissance, will be auctioned off

On the 50th anniversary of its founding, Il Ponte Auction House presents a valuable historical document of the Italian Renaissance: the Santini Codex. The 15th-century Urbino manuscript, which became cultural heritage by the Italian state in 2012, wi...
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All of Federico da Montefeltro in one exhibition. Gubbio's exhibition for the 600th anniversary

When one thinks of Federico da Montefeltro, it comes naturally to associate the figure of this condottiere and patron with the great palace that stands out against the skyline of the capital of his duchy, Urbino, the main center of his power, the sea...
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Luca Della Robbia's large lunette returns to Urbino after restoration

After a six-month restoration, Luca Della Robbia 's large lunette depicting the Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic, Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and Peter the Martyr, documented in some payments from the mid-1450s, will be back on display at th...
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Raphael's Muta is going to London for a major exhibition on the Urbino artist. It will return to Urbino in August

La Muta, a masterpiece by Raphael kept on the piano nobile of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino, in theDuchess's Apartment, will go on a trip to London: in fact, the Female Portrait painted on panel in the early 16th century will be the p...
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The Ideal City of Urbino: one of the mysteries of the early Renaissance

If the Danteum designed by the rationalist architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni in the late 1930s at the suggestion of the then director of the Brera Academy and president of the Società Dantesca Italiana Rino Valdemeri, ap...
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From Brera to Urbino: five masterpieces return to Marche region after more than two centuries

After more than two centuries, 100 works are returning home thanks to a project of the Ministry of Culture. From deposits to museums, five important paintings from the deposits of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan have returned to the Marche region. T...
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A summit of modernity by Orazio Gentileschi: the Vision of Francesca Romana

There are two hagiographies of St. Frances Romana that narrate a precise episode, which occurred on September 6, 1431, when the Roman mystic, born Francesca Bussa de' Leoni, was sixty-seven years old: while listening to Mass in the church of Sa...
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