Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

The Masters of Mechelen and beyond: tour of the Flanders city that is the world capital of bell music

There is a common thread running through Flanders, invisible but strong, weaving together artistic masterpieces, majestic architecture, places of worship and stories of famous people. As in Mechelen for example, an elegant town on the river Dijle tha...
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A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson: his converted Magdalene, exhibited in Treviso

A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson (Bruges, 1580 - Amsterdam, 1617), a beautiful Conversion of Magdalene is being shown for the first time to the public on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated precisely to the theme of the sinful saint, M...
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An unpublished Moretto painting, the Redeemer as a child, returns to light after major restoration

An important unseen work of Renaissance painting is preparing to meet the public gaze for the first time. From April 16 to June 8, 2025, the rooms of the MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, will host th...
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A stamp discovered in Denmark reopens the mystery over Sutton Hoo's helmet

A small metal object accidentally discovered with a metal detector on the Danish island of Tåsinge could have revolutionary implications for the history of northern Europe. It is a stamp, a decorative mold used to imprint motifs on metal sheets...
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Milan rediscovers Andrea Solario. This is what the beautiful exhibition at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum looks like.

One work alone, the Poldi Pezzoli'sEcce Homo , would be enough to understand what kind of artist Andrea Solari was. All it would take is that Christ so ideal and so deeply human, somewhere between Antonello and Leonardo, between the lenticular exacti...
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Umbrian graffiti between faith and memory: an exhibition on medieval and modern writings in Montefalco

The San Francesco Museum Complex in Montefalco is hosting from April 13 to June 15, 2025 an exhibition that has the flavor of time etched in stone: Graffiti of Umbria. Medieval and Modern Spontaneous Writings. This is a widespread exhibition, curated...
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Herculaneum, at the Antiquarium on display the woods that survived Vesuvius

From April 10, 2025, the Herculaneum Archaeological Park will open to the public an exhibit that is unparalleled in the world. The Vesuvian site'sAntiquarium houses a selection of furnishings and wooden objects from the ancient Roman city, unique art...
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A seventeenth-century archbold sculpture between nature and art in the Horti of Pavia

Two eyes made of chestnuts, a nose shaped like a fig, cheeks resembling onions, a forehead resembling a quince, and an artichoke chin whose leaves bend to form two showy mustaches. It is The Keeper of the Kitchen Garden, an imposing Mannerist stone s...
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