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The great reflection: The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece, David Ekserdjian's magnum opus

In 2021, the Art Newspaper chose as its book of the year David Ekserdjian's monumental work The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: an endeavor that we could call "the great reflection" on the greatest pictorial phenomenon of the Italian Renaissance, nam...
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Achille Funi. Master of the twentieth century between history and myth

Achille Funi was a pillar of 20th-century Italian artistic expression, and his city is fittingly preparing a solemn exhibition of him at the Palazzo dei Diamanti for October. The painter was born in Ferrara in 1890 and died in Appiano Gentile (Como) ...
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A distant ray of Venice. The Portal of the Princes' Palace in Correggio

It stands like a marble flower or a snow-white butterfly on the compact red-hot fabric of the ferraiolo brick that clamps the elevation of the comital dwelling erected on the golden principle of the 16th century to welcome sovereigns and most excelle...
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Arrigo Minerbi Sculptor. Between Ferrara and the Italian culture of the early twentieth century.

From Saturday, July 8, the cool noble halls of Ferrara's Castello Estense welcome visitors to the superb exhibition dedicated to Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara, 1881 - Padua, 1960), a distinguished prince of early 20th-century Italian sculpture and a person...
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The most apt knight and baron. Nicolò da Correggio master of delights in Schifanoia.

While the magnificent exhibition Rinascimento a Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa - and there shine masterpieces of the highest rank in the context of the golden age of Italian humanism - it will not be inappropriate to grasp the personal...
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The Renaissance in Ferrara. A curious invitation

On Feb. 18 at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, the desired exhibition on the "Renaissance in Ferrara" will happily open, where the figurative arts - maximally the pictorial arts of the great masters Lorenzo Costa and Ercole de' Roberti - will compose a worl...
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In the Spirit of Correggio. The annual exhibition of the Free Engravers Association.

In the world of art contemporary to us there is a prestigious entity that stands as a model of extreme seriousness and guarantee towards collectors and amateurs. It is the ALI (Associazione Liberi Incisori) which has been working for several decades ...
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Raphael and Julius II: a magnificent exhibition of international interest, a new Bologna

The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna in its rich patrimony holds the historical-artistic axis of the City's pulse, and lately it has opened up to luminous initiatives of extraordinary vitality in connection with important anniversaries or events capab...
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