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The museums in Arezzo and Anghiari are hosting a weekend packed with events featuring ancient art and archaeology, as well as special initiatives

The museums in Arezzo and Anghiari are hosting a weekend packed with events featuring ancient art and archaeology, as well as special initiatives

It will be a weekend packed with events at the state museums in Arezzo and Anghiari from Friday, September 4, through Sunday, September 6, 2026. Talks, guided tours, activities promoting inclusion, performances, and new tools designed to help the pub...
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The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm Acquires a Previously Unseen Work by Lavinia Fontana

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm Acquires a Previously Unseen Work by Lavinia Fontana

The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm has acquired a previously unknown work by Lavinia Fontana ( Bologna, 1552 – Rome, 1614), considered one of the most successful Italian female artists active between the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is a...
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Titian: When the Landscape Ceased to Be a Background. A Look at the Exhibition in Pieve di Cadore

Titian: When the Landscape Ceased to Be a Background. A Look at the Exhibition in Pieve di Cadore

Once upon a time, there was the Renaissance. Once upon a time, there was drawing; once upon a time, there was painting understood as an architecture of figures and perspectives. Then Titian came along and everything changed: a new conception of natur...
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When the Theme Stifles Art: The Limits of Exhibitions... That Are Too Thematic

When the Theme Stifles Art: The Limits of Exhibitions... That Are Too Thematic

Until not too long ago, an exhibition didn’t need to justify itself. The works were there, and it was enough simply to look at them. The curator could intervene, of course, but his or her mediation was optional, not structural. There was not yet that...
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The British government blocks the export of a Rembrandt valued at 71 million pounds

The British government blocks the export of a Rembrandt valued at 71 million pounds

The United Kingdom government has imposed a temporary ban on the permanent export of a painting by Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Leiden, 1606 – Amsterdam, 1669), in the hope that a British museum or institution will be able to rais...
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CortonAntiquaria 2026: The historic antiques fair returns to Cortona from August 29 to September 13

CortonAntiquaria 2026: The historic antiques fair returns to Cortona from August 29 to September 13

The 64th edition of Cortonantiquaria will take place from August 29 to September 13, 2026, in the historic spaces of the Sant’Agostino Conference Center in Cortona, at Via Guelfa 40. The National Antiques Fair, founded in 1963 and held annually...
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Major Theft in Spain: The Villena Treasure, a Rare Collection of Bronze Age Gold Artifacts, Has Been Stolen

Major Theft in Spain: The Villena Treasure, a Rare Collection of Bronze Age Gold Artifacts, Has Been Stolen

The Villena Museum (MUVI) in Spain was the target of a robbery on Thursday morning aimed at stealing the Villena Treasure, one of the most important collections of prehistoric gold and silverwork in Europe. The museum has been placed under seizure by...
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Correggio's angels

Correggio's angels

Among the countless commentators on Correggio, I like to choose the sincere definition given by Édouard Pommier in a personal autograph letter to me in August 2006, where he considers him "an immense artist." Such a judgment coming from the then...
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