Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Giovanni Bellini's restored Pietà returns to Rimini after New York exhibition

The Pietà by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c. 1430 - 1516) is returning to its native Rimini after winning over international audiences in the United States. In fact, the famous painting housed at the Museo della Città "Luigi Tonini" is ret...
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Arezzo, Andrea della Robbia's St. Sebastian restored

The National Museum of Medieval and Modern Art in Arezzo was presented with the restoration of Saint Sebastian, a refined glazed terracotta attributed to Andrea della Robbia (Florence, 1435 - 1525) and his workshop, datable to the early 16th century....
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