Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

20 new works by Michelangelo discovered? Not quite. Here's what we know

Have twenty new works by Michelangelo Buonarroti really been discovered, kept in a secret room, as so many newspapers are saying these hours? Not really: let's go in order. The news starts from a study by an independent researcher, Valentina Salerno,...
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St. George from martyr to knight, the myth of Genoa. What the exhibition at the Royal Palace looks like

... and the knight saved the princess from the terrible dragon. It sounds like thehappy ending of one of those fairy tales we used to read to each other as children, already under the blankets, before falling asleep, but in fact the story of St. Geor...
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Turin, Defendente Ferrari's restored polyptych returns to Palazzo Madama

On Friday, February 20 at 11:30 a.m., Turin 's Palazzo Madama hosted the presentation of the restoration of the Polyptych with Saint Jerome and Saints, Annunciation and Scenes from the Passion by Defendente Ferrari (Chivasso, ca. 1475 - 1540), a work...
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De Ferrari rediscovered: restored altarpiece and unpublished works at Genoa's Palazzo Bianco

Genoa is rediscovering a masterpiece that was in danger of being lost, thanks to a community-supported restoration following a mobilization that began in 2024 after art historian Giacomo Montanari, now the Ligurian capital's culture alderman, reporte...
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Ferrara, Avanzi's 17th-century canvas returns to Certosa after 80 years. And we see Sgarbi in public again

After an absence of more than eighty years, the monumental canvas by Giuseppe Avanzi (Ferrara, 1645 - 1718) returns to the presbytery of the church of San Cristoforo alla Certosa in Ferrara, and the city can thus return to see one of its most signifi...
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Louvre and Snapchat: six masterpieces come alive in augmented reality

Starting Feb. 18, 2026, the Louvre Museum will expand its visitor offerings with an augmented reality project developed in conjunction withSnap Inc.'s Paris-based AR Studio. The initiative, titled The Incredible Unknowns of the Louvre, introduces afr...
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Palazzo Chigi Piccolomini at Postierla: the great sixteenth century in Siena

The image of Siena is usually associated with its medieval past, but in fact in the urban fabric of the city one can still breathe the air of its Renaissance, and in particular, at the corner of Piazza Postierla and Via del Capitano, stands one of t...
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Bartolomeo Cesi, Bologna rediscovers the poet of silence: what the Civic Museum exhibition looks like

In order to enter the ascetic universe of Bartolomeo Cesi it is necessary to abandon on the threshold any sort of prejudice connected with the times and places in which he painted, it is necessary to clear one's mind of any preconception about the ar...
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