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Potenza Picena, the Garden of Villa Buonaccorsi reopens extraordinarily to the public

The Ministry of Culture and the Marche Region announce the upcoming extraordinary reopening of a portion of the Villa Buonaccorsi Garden in Potenza Picena. This is an eighteenth-century residence of great historical and cultural value, recently acqui...
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Modern Reality Painters, a group that defended the great painting tradition, on display in Fermo

The Palazzo dei Priori in Fermo is hosting until May 1, 2023 the exhibition The Painters of Reality. Truth and Illusion between the Seventeenth and Twentieth Centuries, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi with Beatrice Avanzi and Daniela Ferrari. Realized tha...
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The cult of St. Michael the Archangel in art. The traveling exhibition passes through Ascoli Piceno

From July 29 to November 6, 2022, the Pinacoteca Civica di Ascoli Piceno will host the second stage of the traveling exhibition In the Footsteps of Saint Michael the Archangel. Pilgrims and Devotees in Art, curated by Stefano Papetti, produced by Art...
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National Gallery of the Marches: new rooms open on the second floor. And hitherto unvisitable rooms

On July 14, 2022, the western wing of the second floor of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, which is housed in the Ducal Palace in Urbino, will be inaugurated: eight new rooms dedicated to painting from the 16th to the 18th century, landscape, por...
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Marche celebrates 500 years since the birth of Pope Sixtus V with an exhibition

Until June 30, 2022 Palazzo Paradisi in Montalto delle Marche (Ascoli Piceno) is hosting the exhibition Sixtus V and Pericle Fazzini. Glory and Memory, in celebration of the fifth centenary of the birth of Pope Sixtus V. The brainchild of Vittorio Sg...
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This is why the discovery of the tomb of the prince of Corinaldo is exceptional

Until Jan. 30, 2022, the Pinacoteca Comunale "Claudio Ridolfi" (Municipal Art Gallery) in Corinaldo (Ancona) is hosting the exhibition The Treasure Found. The Tomb of the Prince of Corinaldo, an exhibition that recounts the important archaeologic...
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A summit of modernity by Orazio Gentileschi: the Vision of Francesca Romana

There are two hagiographies of St. Frances Romana that narrate a precise episode, which occurred on September 6, 1431, when the Roman mystic, born Francesca Bussa de' Leoni, was sixty-seven years old: while listening to Mass in the church of Sa...
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A masterpiece of sweetness and minuteness: Pinturicchio's Madonna of Peace

Guido Piovene, perhaps the greatest of Italian travel writers, described the Madonna of Peace as "the best picture painted by Pinturicchio." The choice is a tough one: Bernardino di Betto was a sublime artist; it is difficult to say which of the ...
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