Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Jacopo Bassano's rhetoric-free Nativity that anticipated Caravaggio

The happy event has taken place: the Virgin lifts two flaps of the white cloth covering the cradle inside which lies the sleeping newborn Child, to reveal Him to the shepherds who have come to adore Him along with their lambs, an ox and a dog. One, ...
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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...
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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...
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Tarot cards on display in Bergamo: seven centuries of history at the Accademia Carrara

From February 27 to June 2, 2026, theCarrara Academy in Bergamo is hosting Tarot. The Origins, the Cards, the Fortune, an exhibition curated by Paolo Plebani that systematically and documentedly addresses the history of tarot along a time span of abo...
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Winter in art from the Middle Ages to Neoclassicism at the Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, Italy

The upcoming appointment with the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina transforms the Trentino region into a stage where competitive competition is intertwined with a reflection on mountain culture. This is the context for th...
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Who are you? Casa Conte investigates identity between art and design in Milan

Casa Conte, the sartorial design apartment of the Conte brand, continues its dialogue between art and design in the historic setting of Palazzo Melzi di Cusano on Via Montenapoleone 18 in Milan. The new exhibition, titled Who are you?, comes after th...
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Egypt, Italian archaeological mission discovers near Cairo

An archaeological mission from theUniversity of Turin, in collaboration with theUniversity of Naples L'Orientale, has unearthed a remarkable find near Cairo. Excavations conducted at the site of Abu Ghurab have identified a valley temple within the s...
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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...
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