Ancient art

Spoleto, restored the crypt of San Primiano

Spoleto rediscovers one of its oldest and most meaningful places with the presentation this afternoon of the end of the restoration of the crypt of San Primiano, located inside the Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta. The restoration work on th...
Read more...

Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring on a trip to Japan.

Another international move for Girl with a Pearl Earring, a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675) kept at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The work will go to Japan, to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka, next summer, between August a...
Read more...

Florence, finishes the restoration of the Corsini Chapel in the Basilica del Carmine

A presentation was held in Florence yesterday on the completion of restoration work on the Corsini Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, one of the most significant examples of Baroque sculpture and decoration in the city. The event was ...
Read more...

A famous Ecce Homo by Antonello da Messina at auction at Sotheby's: estimate of 15 million

It is sure to be one of the most important auctions of the year: an Ecce Homo by Antonello da Mess ina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479) will go on sale at Sotheby 's in New York on February 5, with an estimate of €10-15 million. This is a rare sale that alr...
Read more...

Monumental paintings in the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs in Rome restored

The complex restoration of the 18th-century altarpieces and canvases by Francesco Trevisani and Niccolò Ricciolini in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome has been completed. The intervention, which involved 20 large ...
Read more...

Madrid, Prado acquires work by Luisa Roldán: historic recognition for Baroque sculptor

For the first time in its history, the Prado Museum in Madrid welcomes into its collections a sculpture by Luisa Roldán (Seville, 1652 - Madrid, 1706), one of the most extraordinary and long underrated figures of the Spanish Baroque. The entry...
Read more...

Louvre, a Lombard Renaissance masterpiece is reborn: the Portal of Palazzo Stanga

After more than a century of display in the halls of the Louvre's sculpture department, where Michelangelo's Prisoners are located, the Portal of Palazzo Stanga, a 15th-century masterpiece attributed to Pietro da Rho (Rho, c. 1465-after 1513) and com...
Read more...

Antwerp, Phoebus Foundation is recovering a portrait of Cosimo III de' Medici by Suttermans

Halfway through her fellowship at The Phoebus Foundation, Brazilian restorer Aline Assumpção is working on the Portrait of Cosimo III de' Medici as a Child, a work by Flemish painter Justus Suttermans, also known in Italy by the Italian...
Read more...

Turin, Legnanino's Belisario returns to Palazzo Carignano after more than three centuries

More than three centuries later, the Apartments of the Princes of Palazzo Carignano in Turin will once again host the painting Belisarius Asks for Alms by Stefano Maria Legnani, known as Legnanino (Milan, 1661 - 1713), from December 2025 to January 6...
Read more...

Pompeii recovers a valuable fresco that was in the U.S. in a private collection

A fragment of a fresco from the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, north of Pompeii, has returned to the availability of Pompeii Archaeological Park after being spotted within a private collection in the United States. The work depicts Hercules as a ...
Read more...

USA, Smithsonian returns three Cambodian sculptures to their country of origin

The Smithsonian 's National Museum of Asian Art in Washington , U.S., has announced the return of three Cambodian sculptures to the Kingdom of Cambodia, marking the museum's first repatriation under the "Shared Management and Ethical Return Policy" a...
Read more...

A Rembrandt print sold for over 3 million at auction: it is the most expensive ever

The most expensive antique print in history was sold at Christie's in London last December 3: the extraordinary sale was recorded in the third session of the auction The Sam Josefowitz Collection: Graphic Masterpieces by Rembrandt van Rijn, which bey...
Read more...

Madonna del Latte by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel restored

The fresco Madonna del Latte with Child between Saints John the Baptist and Bartholomew is back on view in the Florentine church of Sant'Ambrogio after a restoration supported by Friends of Florence and carried out by Cristina Napolitano under the Hi...
Read more...

At the Royal Palace of Caserta the open-site restoration of a monumental painting from the Farnese Fasti

As of December 10, 2025, the open-site restoration of the large painting The Departure of Elisabeth Farnese from Parma after her wedding kicks off in the Fasti Farnesiani gallery room of the Royal Palace of Caserta. This work represents, in the image...
Read more...

Metropolitan Museum returns capital with head of Archangel Michael to Turkey

A marble capital depicting Archangel Michael, one of the most remarkable examples of late Byzantine art, has been returned by the United States to Turkey. The official announcement of the return was released by Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Touris...
Read more...

The Complex of the Pilotta in Parma acquires an album of engravings by Petitot and Bodoni

The Monumental Complex of the Pilotta in Parma has announced the acquisition of the Collection of Branches Engraved on Various Occasions by the Regio-Ducal Court of Parma, an album made in 1791 by Ennemond Alexandre Petitot (Lyon, 1727 - Parma, 1801)...
Read more...