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Brescia, Moretto's Faith returns to view more than 80 years after theft

After more than eighty years of absence and twelve years spent in judicial custody, Moretto 's Faith (Alessandro Bonvicino; Brescia, c. 1498 - 1554) finally returns to public view. From May 2026 and until 2027 the work will be on display on the secon...
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Giorgio Vasari beyond the Lives: what the exhibition at the Capitoline Museums in Rome looks like

A chamber exhibition. It comes to be called that, borrowing the lexicon of chamber music: that designed for small ensembles and intimate spaces, more living rooms than concert halls. This is the hallmark of the exhibition Vasari and Rome, curated by ...
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Beautiful portrait of Giovanni Battista Moroni discovered: the rediscovered clergyman

On Dec. 10, 2024, in the Capitolium auction room in Brescia, a painting was hammered out with an estimate of 2-3,000 euros and a generic attribution: "16th-century Lombard artist." Nothing more. Yet Enrico Cavaliere, founder of Hippeus Art Dealership...
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Brera Art Gallery hosts first exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Agostino da Lodi

The Pinacoteca di Brera will host from May 26 to September 13, 2026 the first exhibition ever dedicated to Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, considered one of the most singular and innovative artists active in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries...
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Florence, the Mormile Polyptych returns to view reassembled almost in its entirety at the Cenacolo del Fuligno

Thanks to the acquisition in 2025 by the Ministry of Culture of two missing panels, Antonio Rimpatta 's Mormile Polyptych has now been reassembled almost in its entirety, thus returning to the public a work of considerable importance. The two panels ...
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Passes at auction in Brescia starting at 1,200 euros but is a well-known masterpiece: sold for 88,000

In technical jargon they are called sleepers: they are those works that go through an auction with an attribution and estimate that undervalues them, but the market tends instead to believe that they are something more than the auction house thought,...
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The Head of Medusa in Bagno a Ripoli will be restored. It was originally part of the Fountain of the Fata Morgana

TheOpificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence will take charge of the restoration of the Head of Medusa belonging to the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli. In fact, the renowned institute has accepted the request of the municipal administration to work on t...
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Faith Galicia's Adoration of the Magi exhibited for the first time at Capodimonte

After more than two centuries of oblivion, Faith Galicia 'sAdoration of the Magi (1610) finally enters the halls of the Reggia di Capodimonte. Although it belongs to the Bourbon collection, the heritage of the Capodimonte Museum and Royal Woods, the ...
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