Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Food in Tuscan Last Suppers: Symbols and Customs from the Painted Table

Anyone lookingat *The Last Supper* instinctively tends to focus on the central figures of the scene: Christ, the apostles, and the dramatic moment of the announcement of the betrayal. Yet, in the depictions created by14th-century (and Renaissance) Tu...
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Giotto Shines Once Again at Santa Croce: The "Stories of St. Francis" in the Bardi Chapel Have Been Restored

After four years of work, Giotto’s *Stories of St. Francis* in the Bardi Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence are once again fully visible. The extensive restoration has made it possible to restore the paintings’ expressive p...
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Medici Chapels: The Bronzes of Ferdinand I and Cosimo II Have Been Restored

At the Museum of the Medici Chapels in Florence, conservation and extraordinary maintenance work on the monumental bronze statues of Ferdinando I and Cosimo II de’ Medici, located in the Chapel of the Princes, has been completed. The museum is ...
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Who Invented Art Exhibitions? A Look at the 17th Century in an Exhibition in Macerata. The Curator Speaks

What does it mean to organize an exhibition today? And above all, what happens when the exhibition itself becomes the subject of the exhibition? These are the questions that serve as the starting point for *Expositio Mundi*. The Exhibition as Medium,...
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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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