Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Breakfast with masterpiece: in Genoa, art enters the hotel at dawn

The idea is as simple as it is original, to bring art, specifically that housed in Genoa's civic museums, at an unusual time of day and in a place that is as iconic as it is exclusive: thus the Art Breakfasts were born, with the historic Hotel Bristo...
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MANN Numismatics section reopens with more than 6,000 coins and new exhibits

From May 25, the Numismatic section of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) reopens to the public, at the end of an intervention supported by extraordinary funding from the Ministry of Culture under the PON Culture and Development 2014...
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At Finarte a major auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings, with a focus on the eighteenth century Veneto

Scheduled by Finarte on May 28, at its Rome headquarters at via Quattro Novembre 114, is a major auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings of nearly three hundred lots articulated in two rounds and built around a nucleus of works that puts back in...
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Bill Armstrong reinterprets the Sibyls of Siena Cathedral in the Crypt

The Sibyls of the floor of Siena Cathedral become unstable images, suspended between appearance and fading, in the photographic project SIBYLS by American artist Bill Armstrong, staged from May 16 to Nov. 15 in the spaces of the Crypt of the Monument...
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Pietro Bellotti, a study day at MarteS revives research on the painter

The MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, will host on Saturday, May 16, 2026, a day of studies dedicated to Pietro Bellotti, a painter active in the seventeenth century between Lombardy and Veneto, who h...
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Rome, podcasts and portraits at Ara Pacis tell the story of Augustus' dynasty

Starting May 15, 2026, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome will introduce a new project to enhance its permanent collection dedicated to the Gallery of Busts. The initiative concerns plaster casts of portraits of the main members of Augustus' family and inc...
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Artemis Ephesia meets Tagliolini's biscuit at the MANN in Naples

The National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte return to share the same exhibition space with The Echo of Artemis, a project that marks the preview of the MiC's recent acquisition destined for Capodimonte and r...
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Is this Saint Dorothy by Artemisia Gentileschi that will go to auction in France?

An unpublished painting to be attributed to Artemisia Gentileschi? That's what the French auction house Rouillac is convinced of, which next June 7, at the Château de Villandry in the Loire Valley, will present a Saint Dorothy associated with the lof...
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