When we enter the hall of a museum, we usually expect to see a series of paintings, all hung up and ready to be admired. However, we would never think that we would also be able to look at the back of these works. And that is precisely why, at fi...
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The exhibition Lorenzo Lotto. Retratos, which can be visited until Sept. 30 at the Museo del Prado in Madrid, proves that it is still possible to create exhibitions of works of art that are not solely and exclusively of the "blockbuster" type. Lore...
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On November 10, 1816, a solemn wedding was celebrated in Vienna between the Emperor of Austria, Francis I (Florence, 1768 - Vienna, 1835), then forty-eight years old, and Princess Caroline Charlotte Augusta of Bavaria (Mannheim, 1792 - Vienna, 18...
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In 1905, a young Venetian artist, Gino Rossi (born Luigi Rossi, Venice, 1884 - Treviso, 1947), was granted a studio on the third floor of the seventeenth-century palace of Ca Pesaro on the Grand Canal: this was the beginning of the career of a grea...
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In Bassano del Grappa, the exhibition La Musa mutilata brings out of museum storage a series of damaged and as yet unrestored plaster sculptures by Antonio Canova, and invites reflection precisely on restoration and all those measures that could be t...
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Naming Conegliano will most likely be a quick mental association with the famous Prosecco, a DOCG white wine produced on the hills of this locality in the province of Treviso, as well as in the other geographical area of Valdobbiadene. In fact, t...
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