Works and artists Ancient art Four hundred Leonardo da Vinci Renaissance Tuscany
“This is the true way to cook roasts.” Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Amboise, 1519) is not the sort of man to make such a categorical statement in a treatise on natural philosophy or a fortification design: in fact, he…
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Rembrandt reinterpreted the ancient world in the light of his own time, transforming figures, stories, and models from Greco-Roman culture into images with a strong personal imprint: This fundamental yet still relatively unexplored…
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The historic Masseria Garzia, located in Siponto (Sipontum) in the Manfredonia area (Foggia), has been transferred to the state’s public domain. The building stands directly on the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheater and was…
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The Städel Museum in Frankfurt has pulled off a major coup by acquiring an important portrait by Guido Reni ( Bologna, 1575–1642)—that of Cardinal Giacomo Sannesi. The work, which had long been incorrectly attributed, was…
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A wooden bridge spans a body of water, connecting the banks of an imaginary landscape dominated by a ruined Renaissance arch and a pavilion. Not far away, a circular tower can be seen, while a boat carries a man wrapped in a cloak and a…
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To understand what Baroque painting was like in Trentino between the 17th and 18th centuries, one must consider an artist who, despite the vastness of his body of work, remained on the margins of scholarly research for a long time…
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Two virtually unknown paintings by Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara, before 1466 – Cremona, 1525) have come back into the spotlight among scholars and are now set to enrich the body of work of one of the leading figures of the…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Five hundred Florence Mannerism Pontormo Quirinal Stables Rome Tuscany
To his contemporaries, the frescoes that Pontormo painted in Florence on the walls of the choir of San Lorenzo must have seemed an extreme, laborious expression of defiance— that “negative Sistine Chapel,” as Luciano Berti had…
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