The scholar Luigi Groto was born blind in Adria in 1541, but his condition did not prevent him from engaging in virtually every field of culture of his time. He wrote over 1,300 poems, orations, tragedies, comedies, and pastoral works; he frequented ...
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The Antiquarium delle Scuderie at Villa Albani Torlonia in Rome is expanding its exhibition program and opening a new space to the public dedicated to the exhibition *Marmora Romana*. Curated by Carlo Gasparri, the exhibition explores the history and...
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Anyone who happened to be on Madison Avenue in New York in early February of this year certainly couldn’t have failed to notice the gleaming Breuer Building, which had just been restored and recently reopened to house the new global headquarter...
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The funerary sphinx on display at the National Etruscan Museum in Chiusi (Siena) is making its debut on the court of the National Serie B. For the 2026–2027 season, San Giobbe Basket Etruria will feature a graphic design on its uniforms inspired by o...
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Two major acquisitions for the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona: The Department of Culture of Catalonia has acquired two particularly valuable paintings for its collections: *Bodegón del molinillo de chocolate* ( “Sti...
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In Quartu Sant’Elana ( Cagliari), restoration work on the Romanesque church of San Pietro di Ponte—which has been enclosed within the perimeter walls of the municipal cemetery for about a century—has been completed: the results will be presente...
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Joint acquisition by two Dutch museums: the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have jointly acquired a masterpiece by Hendrick Avercamp (Amsterdam, 1585 – Kampen, 1634), *Players of Kolf on Ice*, a painting dating from a...
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In February 1909, in the Parisian newspaper *Le Figaro*, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti launched his famous challenge against the worship of the past, ushering in the 20th century with the Futurist Manifesto: “We affirm that the magnificence of the ...
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