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Brescia: At the Santa Giulia Museum, 100 works tell the story of the city’s public collections

From November 4, 2026, to August 22, 2027, the Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia will host “TESORI: The Grand Story of Brescia’s Museums. 1826 | 2026,” a major exhibition dedicated to the history of the city’s civic collections. A journey th...
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Ariadne's Thread and the Ghosts of Casa Mattei: On Caravaggio and San Francesco Cecconi

Consider the complex, tumultuous history of *St. Francis in Meditation*. It was the year 1922 when attorney Angelo Cecconi (an eccentric Tuscan collector who had made Rome his home, a man with a keen eye and himself the author of insightful essays on...
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Tolentino: The Cappellone di San Nicola Reopens After Post-Earthquake Restoration

On Thursday, September 10, at 12:15 p.m., the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Tolentino (Macerata) will officially reopen the Cappellone to the public, following the completion of restoration work made necessary by the 2026 earthquake. The consolidation ...
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Guido Reni’s *The Nexus* and *Deianira*, on loan from the Louvre for the exhibition on Ferdinando Gonzaga

An internationally significant loan to the Palazzo Ducale Museum in Mantua for the exhibition that, running from October 10, 2026, through January 10, 2027, will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua fr...
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A calligram by Ignazio Muligino has been rediscovered. It will be on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence

A recently rediscovered, precious calligram will enrich the “Mirabilia Graphica” exhibition. “The Micrographic Calligrams of Ignazio Muligino,” on view through October 18, 2026, at the Museo Galileo in Florence, curated by Filippo Camerota, is dedica...
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The National Gallery of Umbria Brings Bartolomeo Caporali’s “Saint Roch” Back to Perugia

The National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia has acquired *San Rocco* by Bartolomeo Caporali (1420–1505), a painting created around 1487 and believed to have been lost until recently. The work, once part of the so-called “Pala dei Cacciatori” from Casti...
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Villa Albani Torlonia Expands the Antiquarium: 20 New Sculptures and an Exhibition on Polychrome Marbles

Following the opening of the Antiquarium in 2024, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Torlonia Foundation in Rome, Villa Albani Torlonia is expanding its exhibition space in the Scuderie with a newly restored room. Starting September 18, 2...
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When Christ Steps Off St. Christopher's Shoulders: The Manfron Altarpiece, a masterpiece by Paris Bordon

Two charming winged cherubs support and lift into the air the green, precious banner of honor embroidered in gold, as if they wished to set apart the Virgin Mary, the Child, and Saint Christopher from the rural landscape surrounding them—the very lan...
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