Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Vasto, an Italic necropolis discovered during work on a photovoltaic plant

A pre-Roman funerary context has been identified in the industrial area of Punta Penna, in the northern portion of the municipality of Vasto, in the province of Chieti. This was announced by the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for ...
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A Roman funerary stele recovered by the Carabinieri TPC returns to the Italian state

Carabinieri from the Venice Cultural Heritage Protection Unit have returned to the state a portion of an early-imperial Roman funerary monument, recovered at the end of an investigation coordinated by the Venice Public Prosecutor's Office. The find, ...
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Brescia, Moretto's Faith returns to view more than 80 years after theft

After more than eighty years of absence and twelve years spent in judicial custody, Moretto 's Faith (Alessandro Bonvicino; Brescia, c. 1498 - 1554) finally returns to public view. From May 2026 and until 2027 the work will be on display on the secon...
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The Tabula de Amalpha: at the origins of Mediterranean maritime law

In the history of the Mediterranean, the sea at some point stopped being just a physical space to be crossed and became something more complex: a theater of economic relations, of agreements, of disputes, of shared risks. A place, therefore, to be no...
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Cross No. 20 of Pisa and the transformation of the image of the dying Christ in the thirteenth century

A cross painted to seal the encounter between East and West. A meeting we witness by looking at a large panel (297 centimeters high by 234 centimeters wide) now preserved in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa, hanging on a wall in the room whe...
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Giorgio Vasari beyond the Lives: what the exhibition at the Capitoline Museums in Rome looks like

A chamber exhibition. It comes to be called that, borrowing the lexicon of chamber music: that designed for small ensembles and intimate spaces, more living rooms than concert halls. This is the hallmark of the exhibition Vasari and Rome, curated by ...
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Caravaggio, a major exhibition in Detroit in 2027 on his relationship with models: 25 works

A new key to interpreting the work of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610): this is what will be offered in a year's time, from March 21 to July 18, 2027, by a major exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, entitled ...
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Beautiful portrait of Giovanni Battista Moroni discovered: the rediscovered clergyman

On Dec. 10, 2024, in the Capitolium auction room in Brescia, a painting was hammered out with an estimate of 2-3,000 euros and a generic attribution: "16th-century Lombard artist." Nothing more. Yet Enrico Cavaliere, founder of Hippeus Art Dealership...
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