Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Leonardo da Vinci, online the largest digital collection of his drawings and manuscripts

After more than four centuries of separation, the major manuscripts and drawings of Leonardo da Vinci (Vinci, 1452 - Amboise, 1519) are once again available for consultation as a single documentary heritage. The Leonardotheka 2.0 project, the new dig...
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Pomposa Abbey, restoration of aisle frescoes completed

A new and significant phase in the long journey of conservation and enhancement of the church of Santa Maria diPomposa, or the church of theAbbey of Pomposa, one of the most important monumental complexes of the historical and artistic heritage of Em...
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Cesena's Malatestiana Library, the Renaissance dream that has lived on for more than five centuries

In 2003 a conference was held in Cesena celebrating the 550th anniversary of the opening of one of Italy's most illustrious cultural jewels, the Biblioteca Malatestiana, inaugurated in 1454: the organizers decided to give that day of study a title, T...
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Bartholomew Bimbi, the painter who turned fruits and vegetables into marvels

The Villa della Topaia, close to the better-known Medici residences of Castello and Pietraia, still bears the signs of the time when it was a casino of rest and delights for Cosimo III. Two elegant cartouches, placed in the hall of honor, accommodate...
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Piero di Cosimo's Magdalene and the women of Florence: what the VIVE exhibition in Rome looks like

Despite her understated elegance and gaze that is in no way winking because instead she is concentrated, pensive, if not sad, on the words written in the sacred book she delicately holds in her hands, the star of the exhibition La Maddalena di Piero ...
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Tridentine Diocesan Museum concludes restoration of Johannes Hinderbach's panel painting

In Trento , a conservation and enhancement program of wooden works promoted by the Diocesan Museum of Trent and launched in 2022 concludes with the restoration of the epitaph table of Prince-Bishop Johannes Hinderbach. A project that involved some of...
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Paris, young Perugino's Madonna and Child restored

One of the earliest testimonies to the art of Perugino (Pietro Vannucci; Città della Pieve, 1446 - Fontignano, 1523), returns to show itself in a renewed guise thanks to a conservation intervention that has restored legibility and luminosity t...
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The aesthetics of the unfinished: when art finds strength in the unfinished

There are works before which the gaze slows down, almost without realizing it. Not because of their obvious complexity, nor because of the richness of the details, but because of a more subtle feeling that is difficult to name: something seems to be ...
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