Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

The Holy Face of Lucca Cathedral returns to its Tempietto: handling operations concluded

The delicate operations to move the Holy Face inside the Cathedral of San Martino in Lucca from the restoration laboratory to the Tempietto by Matteo Civitali, where the work will return to its final location, ended today at 12 noon. This will now be...
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Other than the Pavilion of Austria! Bosch invented the human bell in the 15th century

The bell performance at the Austria Pavilion that everyone is talking about? At the Venice Biennale, Florentina Holzinger 's work Seaworld Venice attracted everyone's attention from day one, mainly because of the flashy action that, at the stroke of ...
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Mantua, Pisanello returns to Doge's Palace: new life to tears from deposits

In Mantua, in the spaces of the Ducal Palace, a new phase of enhancement dedicated to one of the most complex and fascinating pictorial cycles of the Italian 15th century opens. In fact, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, at 4 p.m., the new permanent instal...
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Breakfast with masterpiece: in Genoa, art enters the hotel at dawn

The idea is as simple as it is original, to bring art, specifically that housed in Genoa's civic museums, at an unusual time of day and in a place that is as iconic as it is exclusive: thus the Art Breakfasts were born, with the historic Hotel Bristo...
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MANN Numismatics section reopens with more than 6,000 coins and new exhibits

From May 25, the Numismatic section of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) reopens to the public, at the end of an intervention supported by extraordinary funding from the Ministry of Culture under the PON Culture and Development 2014...
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At Finarte a major auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings, with a focus on the eighteenth century Veneto

Scheduled by Finarte on May 28, at its Rome headquarters at via Quattro Novembre 114, is a major auction of Old Master Paintings and Drawings of nearly three hundred lots articulated in two rounds and built around a nucleus of works that puts back in...
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Bill Armstrong reinterprets the Sibyls of Siena Cathedral in the Crypt

The Sibyls of the floor of Siena Cathedral become unstable images, suspended between appearance and fading, in the photographic project SIBYLS by American artist Bill Armstrong, staged from May 16 to Nov. 15 in the spaces of the Crypt of the Monument...
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Pietro Bellotti, a study day at MarteS revives research on the painter

The MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini in Calvagese della Riviera, in the province of Brescia, will host on Saturday, May 16, 2026, a day of studies dedicated to Pietro Bellotti, a painter active in the seventeenth century between Lombardy and Veneto, who h...
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