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Beautiful portrait of Giovanni Battista Moroni discovered: the rediscovered clergyman

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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A private individual wins La Tebaide for 360,000 euros: sold at auction by Pandolfini

A private individual wins La Tebaide for 360,000 euros: sold at auction by Pandolfini

After more than half a century of absence from the market, The Thebaid attributed to Fra Angelico is back in the news, once again gaining attention on the market. The painting, which disappeared from circulation since the 1970s but was always conside...
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Ocriculum, new finds unearth public heart of Roman city

Ocriculum, new finds unearth public heart of Roman city

New data are emerging from the archaeological site of Ocriculum that help redefine the layout of the urban center in Roman times, with particular reference to the public area of the city. The results of the recent excavation campaign were presented a...
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The Holy Face of Lucca Cathedral returns to its Tempietto: handling operations concluded

The Holy Face of Lucca Cathedral returns to its Tempietto: handling operations concluded

The delicate operations to move the Holy Face inside the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca from the restoration laboratory to the Tempietto by Matteo Civitali, where the work will return to its final location, ended today at 12 noon. This will now be...
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Other than the Pavilion of Austria! Bosch invented the human bell in the 15th century

Other than the Pavilion of Austria! Bosch invented the human bell in the 15th century

The bell performance at the Austria Pavilion that everyone is talking about? At the Venice Biennale, Florentina Holzinger 's work Seaworld Venice attracted everyone's attention from day one, mainly because of the flashy action that, at the stroke of ...
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Mantua, Pisanello returns to Doge's Palace: new life to tears from deposits

Mantua, Pisanello returns to Doge's Palace: new life to tears from deposits

In Mantua, in the spaces of the Ducal Palace, a new phase of enhancement dedicated to one of the most complex and fascinating pictorial cycles of the Italian 15th century opens. In fact, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at 4 p.m., the new permanent instal...
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Breakfast with masterpiece: in Genoa, art enters the hotel at dawn

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

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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