Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, Via dell'Agnolo Tabernacle restored

The Tabernacle on Via dell'Agnolo, an important testimony to Florence's widespread artistic heritage, has been restored. The intervention was promoted by the Committee for the Decoration and Restoration of Tabernacles of the Friends of Florentine Mus...
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The painting that guards the myth of St. George in the heart of Genoa

In the oldest part of Genoa, within the walls of Palazzo San Giorgio, a canvas survives that no other documents attest to, signed by a painter of whom almost nothing is known. It is Luchino da Milano's Saint George Slays the Dragon, dated 1444, an oi...
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Alexandria, former St. Francis Church reopens after restoration and becomes museum and cultural hub

Starting May 30, 2026, it will be possible to access theformer Church of St. Francis in the Alexandria convent complex through a program of free guided tours. The opening to the public concerns a building that has undergone several functional transfo...
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Vasto, an Italic necropolis discovered during work on a photovoltaic plant

A pre-Roman funerary context has been identified in the industrial area of Punta Penna, in the northern portion of the municipality of Vasto, in the province of Chieti. This was announced by the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio for ...
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A Roman funerary stele recovered by the Carabinieri TPC returns to the Italian state

Carabinieri from the Venice Cultural Heritage Protection Unit have returned to the state a portion of an early-imperial Roman funerary monument, recovered at the end of an investigation coordinated by the Venice Public Prosecutor's Office. The find, ...
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Brescia, Moretto's Faith returns to view more than 80 years after theft

After more than eighty years of absence and twelve years spent in judicial custody, Moretto 's Faith (Alessandro Bonvicino; Brescia, c. 1498 - 1554) finally returns to public view. From May 2026 and until 2027 the work will be on display on the secon...
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The Tabula de Amalpha: at the origins of Mediterranean maritime law

In the history of the Mediterranean, the sea at some point stopped being just a physical space to be crossed and became something more complex: a theater of economic relations, of agreements, of disputes, of shared risks. A place, therefore, to be no...
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Cross No. 20 of Pisa and the transformation of the image of the dying Christ in the thirteenth century

A cross painted to seal the encounter between East and West. A meeting we witness by looking at a large panel (297 centimeters high by 234 centimeters wide) now preserved in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa, hanging on a wall in the room whe...
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