Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Parma, six sculptures from the Farnese Theater at the Pilotta restored.

The outcomes of the restoration and enhancement intervention involving six figurative stucco sculptures, originally part of the decorative apparatus of the Teatro Farnese, considered one of the masterpieces of the European Baroque, were presented to...
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An important early work by Gerrit van Honthorst purchased by the Centraal Museum in Utrecht

An exceptional preview turns the spotlight on one of the leading figures of the Dutch seventeenth century. On the occasion of TEFAF Maastricht, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, is presenting theEcstasy of Mary Magdalene-a rare early work ...
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Vermeer for the first time in Turin: the Woman in Blue at Palazzo Madama

From March 5 to June 29, 2026, Palazzo Madama in Turin is hosting in the Atelier Room one of the best-known works by Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 - 1675), Woman in Blue on loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. This is the first time that Turin has...
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Paris, a painting by Caroto discovered: important addition to the Veronese painter's catalog

A major discovery for 16th-century Veronese painting emerges in Paris, where the young Galerie Duponchel is opening its first exhibition devoted to Old Masters drawings and paintings. The exhibition, hosted from March 21-30, 2026 in the spaces of Gal...
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Painters of reality compared: Bellotti and Ceruti on display at MarteS

An unprecedented confrontation between two great modern painters of reality: this is what is being staged from March 21 to June 28, 2026 at the MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, where the dossier exhi...
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New Rembrandt work discovered: announcement from Rijksmuseum

A new work officially enters the catalog of Rembrandt van Rijn (Leiden, 1606 - Amsterdam, 1669). In fact, researchers at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam have shown that a painting, the Vision of Zechariah in the Temple, dated 1633, can be assigned to th...
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For the 17th-century Peter Martyr Neri a restoration and exhibition in Cremona

In Cremona, the restoration of the large canvas depicting the Healing of the Blind Man Born by Pietro Martire Neri (Cremona, 1591 - Rome, 1661) has turned into an opportunity for a comprehensive study and reinterpretation of the Cremonese painter's w...
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Pilotta, Luigi Amidani's Madonna and Child restored. Full legibility of the work recovered

Restored Madonna and Child with Saints Francis of Assisi, Agnes and Genesius, painted around 1619 by Luigi Amidani and kept at the Pilotta Monumental Complex in Parma. The scene depicts the Madonna seated on a throne with the Child; above them, three...
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