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Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca acquires work by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Cavalier Borghese

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca acquires work by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Cavalier Borghese

The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca recently acquired a new work in its collection: the Crucified Christ Triumphing over Death, Evil and Sin by Giustiniana Guidotti Borghese, daughter of Paolo Guidotti, the Cavalier Borghese. "After The Portr...
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Panama, pre-Hispanic tomb over 1,000 years old discovered with rich grave goods

Panama, pre-Hispanic tomb over 1,000 years old discovered with rich grave goods

An archaeological discovery at the El Caño site in the Natá de los Caballeros district of Coclé province , Panama, is expanding knowledge of the pre-Hispanic societies that inhabited the Central American isthmus more than a thous...
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TPC Carabinieri recover a 14th-century wooden Madonna stolen in 1977 from Monselice Castle

TPC Carabinieri recover a 14th-century wooden Madonna stolen in 1977 from Monselice Castle

A wooden statue depicting a Madonna and Child, dating back to the 14th century and stolen in 1977 from the Castle of Monselice (Padua), has been recovered by Carabinieri of the Venice Cultural Heritage Protection Unit at the end of an investigation c...
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From Vienna to Rome: over fifty masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum for the first time in Italy

From Vienna to Rome: over fifty masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum for the first time in Italy

From March 6 to July 5, 2026, the Museo del Corso-Museum Pole in Rome, at the Palazzo Cipolla, welcomes for the first time in Italy more than fifty masterpieces from the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, to tell the story of a co...
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The Sodom protagonist in Turin: at the Accorsi Ometto Foundation the exhibition on the Renaissance master

The Sodom protagonist in Turin: at the Accorsi Ometto Foundation the exhibition on the Renaissance master

He linked much of his career to Siena, but by birth he was a native Piedmontese, so much so that, it would seem, his nickname may have been a contraction of the popular intercalary "su, 'nduma!" We are talking about Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as So...
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Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Genoa, six apostles from a precious Procaccini cycle reunited after 350 years

Six canvases reunited after more than 350 years: it happens in Genoa, where from March 7 to July 19, 2026, the Strada Nuova Museums presents the exhibition Giulio Cesare Procaccini. The Apostles Reunited, set up in the rooms of Palazzo Rosso. The exh...
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No new work by Michelangelo has been discovered in Rome

No new work by Michelangelo has been discovered in Rome

In recent hours the attention of many media has focused on a bust preserved in the basilica of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura in Rome, the subject of a proposed attribution to Michelangelo. The hypothesis, put forward by Valentina Salerno, who introduces ...
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Raphael, extraordinary discovery: drawing of the Banner of the Trinity resurfaces from restoration

Raphael, extraordinary discovery: drawing of the Banner of the Trinity resurfaces from restoration

The restoration of the Stendardo della Santissima Trinità by Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520), kept at the Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello, has restored new legibility to the work and led to the unexpected discovery ...
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