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Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca acquires work by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Cavalier Borghese

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca acquires work by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Cavalier Borghese

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca recently acquired a new work in its collection: the Crucified Christ Triumphing over Death, Evil and Sin by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Paolo Guidotti, the Cavalier Borghese. "After The Portr...
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Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Six canvases reunited after more than 350 years: it happens in Genoa, where from March 7 to July 19, 2026, the Strada Nuova Museums presents the exhibition Giulio Cesare Procaccini. The Apostles Reunited, set up in the rooms of Palazzo Rosso. The exh...
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Raphael, extraordinary discovery: drawing of the Banner of the Trinity resurfaces from restoration

Raphael, extraordinary discovery: drawing of the Banner of the Trinity resurfaces from restoration

The restoration of the Stendardo della Santissima Trinità by Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520), kept at the Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello, has restored new legibility to the work and led to the unexpected discovery ...
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Parma, six sculptures from the Farnese Theater at the Pilotta restored.

Parma, six sculptures from the Farnese Theater at the Pilotta restored.

The outcomes of the restoration and enhancement intervention involving six figurative stucco sculptures, originally part of the decorative apparatus of the Teatro Farnese, considered one of the masterpieces of the European Baroque, were presented to...
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An important early work by Gerrit van Honthorst purchased by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht

An important early work by Gerrit van Honthorst purchased by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht

An exceptional preview turns the spotlight on one of the leading figures of the Dutch seventeenth century. On the occasion of TEFAF Maastricht, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, is presenting theEcstasy of Mary Magdalene-a rare early work ...
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Vermeer for the first time in Turin: the Woman in Blue at Palazzo Madama

Vermeer for the first time in Turin: the Woman in Blue at Palazzo Madama

From March 5 to June 29, 2026, Palazzo Madama in Turin is hosting in the Atelier Room one of the best-known works by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675), Woman in Blue on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This is the first time that Turin has...
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Paris, a painting by Caroto discovered: important addition to the Veronese painter's catalog

Paris, a painting by Caroto discovered: important addition to the Veronese painter's catalog

A major discovery for 16th-century Veronese painting emerges in Paris, where the young Galerie Duponchel is opening its first exhibition devoted to Old Masters drawings and paintings. The exhibition, hosted from March 21-30, 2026 in the spaces of Gal...
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Tour guide caught drawing on pyramid in Giza: stopped by authorities

Tour guide caught drawing on pyramid in Giza: stopped by authorities

Egyptian authorities have arrested a tour guide in Giza after a video circulated on social media showing the man tracing marks on the outer covering of a pyramid to illustrate explanations to a group of tourists. According to a report by the Interior...
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Rome, restoration of Thorvaldsen's Venus and Bienaimé's Telemachus from the Academy of St. Luke kicks off

Rome, restoration of Thorvaldsen's Venus and Bienaimé's Telemachus from the Academy of St. Luke kicks off

TheNational Academy of St. Luke in Rome is inaugurating a new restoration campaign dedicated to two important neoclassical sculptures: Venus with an apple (1813) by Danish master Bertel Thorvaldsen and Telemachus (ca. 1835) by Carrarese sculptor Luig...
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New Rembrandt work discovered: announcement from Rijksmuseum

New Rembrandt work discovered: announcement from Rijksmuseum

A new work officially enters the catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669). In fact, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have shown that a painting, the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple, dated 1633, can be assigned to th...
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Assisi, major project to digitize the Basilica of St. Francis

Assisi, major project to digitize the Basilica of St. Francis

The year 2026 marks eight hundred years since the death of St. Francis (Assisi, 1181 - 1226), and Assisi is preparing to celebrate the anniversary with a project that looks to the future of cultural heritage protection: in fact, the Basilica of St. F...
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For the 17th-century Peter Martyr Neri a restoration and exhibition in Cremona

For the 17th-century Peter Martyr Neri a restoration and exhibition in Cremona

In Cremona, the restoration of the large canvas depicting the Healing of the Blind Man Born by Pietro Martire Neri (Cremona, 1591 - Rome, 1661) has turned into an opportunity for a comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the Cremonese painter's w...
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Pilotta, Luigi Amidani's Madonna and Child restored. Full legibility of the work recovered

Pilotta, Luigi Amidani's Madonna and Child restored. Full legibility of the work recovered

Restored Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, Agnes and Genesius, painted around 1619 by Luigi Amidani and kept at the Pilotta Monumental Complex in Parma. The scene depicts the Madonna seated on a throne with the Child; above them, three...
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Royal Palace of Caserta, completed the restoration of the three large canvases in the Royal Casino of the Forest of San Silvestro

Royal Palace of Caserta, completed the restoration of the three large canvases in the Royal Casino of the Forest of San Silvestro

The three large canvases decorating the ceilings of the Real Casino del Bosco di San Silvestro at the Royal Palace of Caserta have been restored. The works were in a condition of severe deterioration, such that their preservation and the possibility ...
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35 Rembrandt engravings found in Holland in a private home

35 Rembrandt engravings found in Holland in a private home

Thirty-five Rembrandtetchings have been found in a private home in the Netherlands, where they had been sitting in a drawer for decades. The discovery, as ArtNews reports, came during the COVID-19 pandemic when Charlotte Meyer, after a recent move, ...
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Turin, Defendente Ferrari's restored polyptych returns to Palazzo Madama

Turin, Defendente Ferrari's restored polyptych returns to Palazzo Madama

On Friday, February 20 at 11:30 a.m., Turin 's Palazzo Madama hosted the presentation of the restoration of the Polyptych with Saint Jerome and Saints, Annunciation and Scenes from the Passion by Defendente Ferrari (Chivasso, ca. 1475 - 1540), a work...
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