Among the countless commentators on Correggio, I like to choose the sincere definition given by Édouard Pommier in a personal autograph letter to me in August 2006, where he considers him "an immense artist." Such a judgment coming from the then...
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A painting attributed to Federico Barocci ( Urbino, 1535–1612), which has resurfaced in Munich at the Hampel auction house, could add a new and valuable piece to our understanding of the Urbino artist’s work. The painting, from a private ...
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A major acquisition for the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), which has announced the acquisition of eight new works and collections intended to enrich its holdings, including a significant *Madonna and Child with Saint Francis* painted in 1503 by ...
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The author revisits here the article that appeared on January 31, 2022, in this same journal, but has now expanded it with the necessary in-depth analysis. This study of Correggio, in fact, focuses on that great Renaissance artist who embodied th...
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To mark the 400th anniversary of Ferdinando Gonzaga’s death, the Ducal Palace in Mantua is dedicating a major exhibition to the duke titled *Sole mirabile per luce propria. Ferdinando Gonzaga: Patron and Duke (1587–1626)*. The exhibition,...
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For nearly five hundred years, anyone who enters the Hall of Olympus at Villa Barbaro in Maser, in the province of Treviso, has had the impression of being watched—and, in a certain sense, protected—by the principal deities of the Greek pantheon. Ar...
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From October 31, 2026, to January 31, 2027, a major masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance will, on an exceptional basis, leave the Prado Museum in Madrid to be exhibited at the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona. Titian ’s *Venus with a Dog and an Organ...
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Anyone who opens the pages of the diary that Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci; Pontorme di Empoli, 1494 – Florence, 1557) kept during the final years of his life, from January 7, 1554, to October 23, 1556, is confronted with a unique text: not a narrat...
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