Ancient art - Finestre sull'Arte

Forlì and the Grand Baroque Theater on display at the San Domenico Museums

Forlì is the epicenter of a critical reflection on one of the densest seasons in European history with the exhibition entitled Baroque. The Grand Theater of Ideas, hosted at the Museo Civico San Domenico from February 21 to June 28, 2026, cura...
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Roman villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella resurfaces in Bacoli: first site on property confiscated from the Camorra

A Roman-era maritime villa with more than 2,000 years of history, which emerged in the area of Villa Ferretti, has been made visible to the public in Bacoli (Naples). The complex, attributed to the politician and military man Publius Cornelius Dolabe...
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The art of tarot: the Colleoni deck and the long life of the Arcana. What the exhibition in Bergamo looks like

It rarely happens that, chatting among art historians, critics, and specialized journalists, a unanimous consensus emerges on an exhibition project. But about the exhibition Tarot. The Origins, the Cards, the Fortune a currently underway at the Carra...
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Ancient Ostia goes to town: three Rome hotels welcome three ancient works out of storage and restored

Three works, three hotels, one project: ancient Ostia goes to the city. An initiative designed to make accessible to the general public precious artifacts that have remained hidden for decades in museum deposits and never exhibited. The project is p...
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Martin Schongauer, at the Louvre the exhibition on the master of the late Middle Ages

Nicknamed "Martin Schön," or "the handsome Martin," by Albrecht Dürer, Martin Schongauer (Colmar, c. 1445 - Vieux-Brisach, 1491), one of the greatest German painters of the 15th century, returns to center stage with a major exhibition sched...
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An exhibition at Palazzo Venezia on Piero di Cosimo's Magdalene recounts the lives of women in the Renaissance

On April 17, 2026, the VIVE - Vittoriano and Palazzo Venezia will inaugurate the exhibition La Maddalena di Piero di Cosimo: art, history and women's lives in the Florentine Renaissance, set up in the rooms of the ancient kitchens of Rome's Palazzo V...
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A bonsai museum or an exhibition in a box? The wonders of the Habsburgs in Rome, double review

Why yes. Federico Giannini If the museum is a ruthless apparatus for organizing the visible, a distorted device for classifying images, all the less reasonable and all the more perverse must inevitably appear any miniaturization of it, any reduction...
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Another Antonello da Messina rediscovered: rare 15th-century painting at auction

Another brings Antonello da Messina (Messina, c. 1430 - 1479), a pivotal figure of the Italian Renaissance, back into the spotlight, following the recent return of his Ecce Homo to the market and the subsequent purchase of the panel by the Italian st...
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