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Speculation from Caravaggiomania: Ladispoli challenges Porto Ercole over painter's death

Lately there has been renewed discussion of Caravaggio's death, which as we know occurred on July 18, 1610, in Porto Ercole, on the Tuscan coast near the border with Lazio, when the artist was not yet 39 years old. More and more cultural initiatives...
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"The sculptor of angels" Giacomo Serpotta, between Caravaggio and van Dyck. The full video from 1957

Until now, its viewing had been a privilege for few, as it was not available even in specialized film libraries. On the Web, an initial fragment of just two minutes circulated. We are talking about Lo scultore degli angeli (The Sculptor of Angel...
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The missing Caravaggio resurfaces in an ancient lithograph by Philippe Benoist

It is the oldest reproduction of the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo. A nice rediscovery if, dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, if black lost memory. And with good reason, taking into account that it was published in a bibliographical work ...
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Palermo, larte at the time of war. And the stolen Caravaggio that (already) wasn't there

The photographic and documentary exhibition The War of Art, in Palermo at the Convent of the Real Magione, has been extended until April 8. The title, which paraphrases Sun Tzu's The War of War, stigmatizes how works of art have always fought in orde...
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Iconography of a saint. Caravaggio's Saint Jerome in Milan.

Only a few more days to visit the exhibition at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan - extended until March 12. A masterpiece by the last Roman Caravaggio, the Saint Jerome Writing, temporarily replaces the Basket of Fruit on loan to the Galleria Borgh...
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