The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired at auction from Christie's in London the Madonna of the Cherries by Flemish artist Quentin Metsys (Leuven, 1466 - Antwerp, 1530). Long thought to be lost, the 16th-century painting was recently red...
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Is the newly discovered Magdalene in Ecstasy in an Italian private collection really a work by Artemisia Gentileschi ? This is the opinion of art historian Delia Somma, who has subjected the painting to several studies, published in the book L'estasi...
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Green light for the continued opening to the public of Michelangelo's Secret Room, the small room under the New Sacristy of the Medici Chapel Museum in Florence containing drawings attributed to Buonarroti. The Stanza has been open for the first time...
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In the rooms of the third floor of the Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi, on the occasion of the exhibition The Enchantment of Beauty. Rediscovered Paintings by Sebastiano Ricci from the Enel Collection, two paintings by Venetian painter Sebastiano R...
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After a meticulous four-year restoration, the altarpiece depicting the Madonna of the Snow, painted by Jacopo di Cione (Florence, 1325 - 1399), has been relocated to the Church of Saints Apostles and Blaise in Florence. This restoration was made poss...
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In Bergamo , the restoration of a monumental painting by Sebastiano Ricci (Belluno, 1659 - Venice, 1734), St. Peter in Prison Freed by the Angel, is finished as part of the "Grandi Restauri" project of the Credito Bergamasco Foundation (Creberg). Thi...
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New light for the Polyptych of St. Martin, a masterpiece of 15th-century Lombardy created between 1485 and 1505 by Bernardo Zenale and Bernardino Butinone. The work has in fact received new lighting thanks to a project by Studio Switch and solutions ...
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Strike by the Ducal Palace in Mantua , which bought at auction, at an extremely low cost (£12,000) an important Gonzaga tapestry from 1528, specifically a "spalliera," or horizontal format tapestry, in this case nearly six meters wide. The auction w...
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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Spring (1573; oil on canvas; Paris, Louvre). © 2024 GrandPalaisRmn (Museé du Louvre). Photo: Adrien Didierjean
Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Summer (1573; oil on canvas; Paris, Louvre). © 2024 GrandPalaisRmn (Muse&...
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The Galleria dell 'Accademia in Florence presents a video-documentary, produced to tell the story of the restoration of the panel painting depicting The Resurrection by Raffaellino dei Carli, known as del Garbo (S. Lorenzo a Vigliano, 1466 - Florence...
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In Genoa, Goldfinch Fine Arts Gallery opens a new exhibition scheduled from May 31 to June 29 at the gallery's headquarters, located in Palazzo Lazzaro and Giacomo Spinola, Via Garibaldi 8. The exhibition, titled Nuovi Argomenti: Gioacchino Assereto,...
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Restoration work on the frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel, a Renaissance masterpiece with frescoes by Masaccio, Masolino and Filippino Lippi inside Florence's Church of the Carmine, has been completed in Florence . The work was made possible thanks to...
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The restoration of theCoronation of the Virgin with Saints Michael the Archangel, Joseph, Francis and Nicholas, a masterpiece by Moretto (Alessandro Bonvicino; Brescia, 1498 - 1554), has been completed in Brescia . The restoration of the work, which ...
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Important restoration in Brescia, where work has been completed on the Madonna Enthroned Suckling the Child by Andrea Marone da Manerbio, a member of a family of artists with deep roots in Renaissance Brescia. The restoration of the fresco, executed ...
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Remarkable acquisition by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , which on May 1 announced the acquisition of a significant work by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1522 - Rome, 1614), the Ritratto di Bianca degli Utili Maselli e dei suoi figli, a rare and...
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A precious medieval codex from ancient Luni, long thought lost, has returned to light thanks to the efforts of theUniversity of Pisa. Known now as the Beinecke manuscript ms. 1153, this ancient document holds several lives of saints, including a hith...
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