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Artemisia Gentileschi, the decapitated Magdalene sold for 837,500 euros

Artemisia Gentileschi, the decapitated Magdalene sold for 837,500 euros

A result far beyond expectations marked the sale of the... Beheaded Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593 - Naples, post 1654). This fragmentary painting, which is missing its head(we had discussed it in a dedicated article), fetched an impr...
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TEFAF and Bank of America fund restoration of rare Medici tapestry at Minneapolis Institute

TEFAF and Bank of America fund restoration of rare Medici tapestry at Minneapolis Institute

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) has been named as a beneficiary of the TEFAF Museum Restoration Fund 2026, an initiative sponsored by The European Fine Art Foundation together with Bank of America, Lead Partner of TEFAF New York. The joint co...
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Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

Modica, Passion Canvases restored: rare 1795 cycle returns

In Modica (Ragusa), the Teleri della Passione (Canvases of the Passion ) from the Church of the Carmine, an extraordinarily important pictorial cycle dating back to 1795 and recently recovered after more than a century of oblivion, have been restored...
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Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

Capua, restored the wooden Madonna by Pietro and Giovanni Alemanno

The Diocesan Museum of Capua (Caserta) presented the restoration of a polychrome wooden sculpture depicting a Madonna and Child attributed to sculptors Pietro Alemanno and Giovanni Alemanno and dated around 1480. The intervention is part of the 20th...
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Florence, restoration of Masaccio's Trinity completed after three years

Florence, restoration of Masaccio's Trinity completed after three years

After three years of interventions, the restoration of Masaccio's Trinity, among the most important masterpieces of the early Renaissance, kept in the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, has been concluded. A restoration that represents not ...
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The power of the sign. Drawing as Logos, Phenomenon, Energy.

The power of the sign. Drawing as Logos, Phenomenon, Energy.

In the current landscape of artistic and intellectual production, drawing is undergoing a significant phase of critical resignification that disrupts its traditional role as a merely ancillary or preparatory practice. While historically the graphic a...
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Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

A masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the international market. Indeed, in May, at Pandolfini 's Milan headquarters, an extraordinary copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Oratore, illuminated and calligraphed by Bartolomeo Sanvito (P...
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Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta

Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta

A monumental statue, most likely attributed to Pharaoh Ramses II, has been found at the Tellel-Faroun archaeological site in the eastern Nile Delta area. The discovery occurred as part of the activities of an Egyptian mission operating under the ausp...
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