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Luigi Groto, the “Blind Man of Adria” who defied all limits in the 16th century: the exhibition in Rovigo

Luigi Groto, the “Blind Man of Adria” who defied all limits in the 16th century: the exhibition in Rovigo

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 at Villa Albani Torlonia is expanding and adding twenty new polychrome marble sculptures to its collection

The Antiquarium at Villa Albani Torlonia is expanding and adding twenty new polychrome marble sculptures to its collection

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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Stanley Moss, the American art dealer and poet who sold a Piero della Francesca to the Louvre

Stanley Moss, the American art dealer and poet who sold a Piero della Francesca to the Louvre

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 Etruscan Sphinx of Chiusi on the jerseys of San Giobbe Basket Etruria

The Etruscan Sphinx of Chiusi on the jerseys of San Giobbe Basket Etruria

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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Catalonia Acquires Masterpieces by Juan de Zurbarán and Mengs for Its Collections

Catalonia Acquires Masterpieces by Juan de Zurbarán and Mengs for Its Collections

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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Quartu Sant'Elena: The Romanesque Church of San Pietro di Ponte Has Been Restored

Quartu Sant'Elena: The Romanesque Church of San Pietro di Ponte Has Been Restored

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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The Netherlands: The Mauritshuis and the Rijksmuseum Jointly Acquire a Masterpiece by Avercamp

The Netherlands: The Mauritshuis and the Rijksmuseum Jointly Acquire a Masterpiece by Avercamp

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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From the Connoisseur's Eye to Superintelligence: What AI Can Do for Art

From the Connoisseur's Eye to Superintelligence: What AI Can Do for Art

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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