Veneto - Finestre sull'Arte

The work of art and the reproduction of its images. An open debate

The question of the relationship between the work of art and its image, understood as an instrument of communication, dissemination and knowledge, is a figure of great theoretical interest, a symptom that imposes itself on our attention in the presen...
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The spectacle of the Baptistery of Padua: the frescoes of Giusto de' Menabuoi

Inside the Baptistery of Pad ua is preserved one of the masterpieces of Paduan painting from the second half of the 14th century. The realization of the pictorial decoration of the sacred building was entrusted to the Florentine painter Giusto de' Me...
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Giambattista Tiepolo's Apotheosis of the Pisans, the masterpiece of eighteenth-century fiction

Nestled along the banks of the Naviglio del Brenta canal, just a short walk from the center of the town of Stra, stands the "queen of the villas of the Veneto," Villa Pisani, a majestic example of an 18th-century patrician residence, erected beginnin...
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A Cremonese among the Venetians. The Madonna of Altobello Melone at the Carrara Academy.

As soon as one arrives in the hall of the Veneti at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, after laying eyes on Altobello Melone's Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, one will realize that the caption accompanying the painting tends to emphasize th...
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Veneto Museums: challenges and satisfactions at the Treviso and Verona sites. Chiara Matteazzi speaks.

The Museums of Veneto have recently seen two major construction sites, in Verona and Treviso, the new National Archaeological Museum and the new National Museum Collezione Salce, respectively, which Chiara Matteazzi (Este, 1973), an architect in the ...
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Treviso, what the Paris Bordon exhibition looks like: an exhibition for all on a Renaissance great

In conclusion to their essay published in the catalog of the major exhibition Paris Bordon. Pittore divino, set up at the Museo di Santa Caterina in Treviso until January 15, 2023, curators Simone Facchinetti, a researcher at the University of Salent...
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Giorgione's Tempest, the mystery no one has yet solved

Few paintings in the history of art have caused as much talk and discussion as Giorgione 's The Tempest (Giorgio Barbarelli; Castelfranco Veneto, 1478 - Venice, 1510), preserved at the Accademia Gallery in Venice, a work of art exactly as mysterious ...
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Verona, Eataly Art House Foundation is born in the former cold storage station

A place of 11,200 square meters of conviviality of which more than 5,000 are dedicated to culture through a proposal designed to be accessible to the entire public. Opening its doors on October 5 in Verona, in the Specialized Refrigeration Station, L...
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