Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

The power of the sign. Drawing as Logos, Phenomenon, Energy.

In the current landscape of artistic and intellectual production, drawing is undergoing a significant phase of critical resignification that disrupts its traditional role as a merely ancillary or preparatory practice. While historically the graphic a...
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Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

A masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the international market. Indeed, in May, at Pandolfini 's Milan headquarters, an extraordinary copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Oratore, illuminated and calligraphed by Bartolomeo Sanvito (P...
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Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta

A monumental statue, most likely attributed to Pharaoh Ramses II, has been found at the Tellel-Faroun archaeological site in the eastern Nile Delta area. The discovery occurred as part of the activities of an Egyptian mission operating under the ausp...
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Venice, Tintoretto masterpieces restored and relocated to San Giorgio Maggiore

The restoration of two monumental works by Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti; Venice, 1518 - 1594), The Last Supper and The Jews in the Desert, two masterpieces from the late phase of the Venetian painter's career, now once again on view in the basilica of ...
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Florence, Bargello Museum will restore basement of Cellini's Perseus with a live construction site

Florence's Galleria dell'Accademia and Bargello Museums launch a new restoration project. Inside the Bargello National Museum 's Michelangelo Hall, operations have already begun to unmount the base of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus, the first step in a ...
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Florence, the Mormile Polyptych returns to view reassembled almost in its entirety at the Cenacolo del Fuligno

Thanks to the acquisition in 2025 by the Ministry of Culture of two missing panels, Antonio Rimpatta 's Mormile Polyptych has now been reassembled almost in its entirety, thus returning to the public a work of considerable importance. The two panels ...
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Girolamini reopens after 14 years: Naples rediscovers oldest library after 2011 scandal

The Girolamini Library in Naples will become accessible to the public again on April 22, 2026, after a 14-year closure. The opening, as reported by the Vesuviolive.it news outlet, will take place through an exhibition housed in the institute's histor...
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Egypt: 13 illegally stolen archaeological artifacts recovered from the United States

Egypt has recovered from the United States 13 archaeological artifacts that illegally left the country, as part of an operation conducted through cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and relevant ...
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