Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico Beccafumi ...
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Puffy, full, fake, soft, touchable clouds. Folds that look like wet metal. Ivory faces, slightly flushed, delicate, expressive. He is the easily recognizable artist Malosso, and it is probably also to this recognizability that we owe the success that...
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As part of its bicentennial celebrations, the National Gallery in London announced the acquisition of an extraordinary and mysterious Northern Renaissance altarpiece, dated around 1510, that had not been on public display for more than 60 years. The ...
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After centuries of separation, the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Massachusetts , United States, has succeeded in an extraordinary feat: to reunite for the first time since its separation a 16th-century triptych by the Dutch painter Maerten van Heemsk...
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One work alone, the Poldi Pezzoli'sEcce Homo , would be enough to understand what kind of artist Andrea Solari was. All it would take is that Christ so ideal and so deeply human, somewhere between Antonello and Leonardo, between the lenticular exacti...
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Two eyes made of chestnuts, a nose shaped like a fig, cheeks resembling onions, a forehead resembling a quince, and an artichoke chin whose leaves bend to form two showy mustaches. It is The Keeper of the Kitchen Garden, an imposing Mannerist stone s...
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In the heart of Venice, under the daily eyes of thousands of passersby and tourists, a forgotten fragment of history and art was hiding. Now, thanks to a careful and shared intervention, that fragment has returned to light. In fact, during restoratio...
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The recent exhibition on the sixteenth century in Ferrara curated by Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli brought back to attention once again the Madonna and Child in Glory, Musician Angels and Saints Paul, a Saint, Matthew, Catherine of Alexandria a...
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