Baroque - Finestre sull'Arte

Seventeenth-century Rome in the eyes of Gerrit van Honthorst: the painter's beginnings

Let us imagine a Dutch boy of just eighteen who had recently arrived in Rome. And let us imagine that this boy is none other than Gerrit van Honthorst: a young man who already had a good education, because in his homeland he had studied with Abraham ...
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Exhibitions in Bologna: Nature and Expression by Francesco Arcangeli (1970)

After the major exhibition on Guido Reni in 1954, the subsequent Biennali d'Arte Antica also continued to deal with classicist painters: for example, in 1956 it was the turn of the Carracci, in 1962 there was the exhibition L'Ideale Classico nel Seic...
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Massa's Nativity by Nightlight: the troubled story of a beautiful painting, on display

If you happen to be passing through Massa by March 15, take some time to visit the Diocesan Museum and the exhibition The Nativity by Nightlight. We had already told you about it in our first article written in The Daily Slow, and we are returning to...
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Bernini's freedom: considerations after the first installment of the series

RAI is finally bringing us great art in prime time thanks to the project Bernini's Freedom, an eight-part series that, through Tomaso Montanari's narration, takes the reader through the work of one of the greatest protagonists of Italian art, Gian ...
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Caravaggio, Cigoli, Passignano: three artists competing for a painting. Or not?

And wanting Monsignor Massimi an Ecce Homo that would satisfy him, he commissioned one from Passignano, one from Caravaggio and one from Cigoli, without the knowledge of the other; all of which, having been finished and compared, he liked his more th...
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6 Caravaggio works to see in 3 churches in Rome

Here we are at a new appointment with our travels! Today we are headed to the capital, to Rome: did you know that in the Eternal City it is possible to see as many as six masterpieces by Caravaggio completely free of charge, without queuing, and ...
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Artemisia - by Alexandra Lapierre

With today's book, one could say that we almost pick up the thread from the book we told you about last time, The Forbidden Books by Mario Infelise, because the events of Alexandra Lapierre's novel Artemisia (in Mondadori's Best Sellers edition) coin...
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How to attribute a drawing (by Caravaggio and otherwise): interview with Francesca Cappelletti

After the enthusiastic tones of the first hour have died down and it is possible to reason with a somewhat cooler mind, we at Finestre Sull'Arte decided to get an expert opinion on the issue of the hundred Caravaggio drawings. Therefore, we reached o...
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