Five hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

When Sodoma Looked to Mantegna: The Lamentation of the Young Man from Piedmont

The career of Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, better known as Sodoma (Vercelli, 1477 – Siena, 1549) is undoubtedly one of the most fascinating and complex chapters of the High Renaissance, that transitional period between the 15th and 16th centuries, a...
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Lerici, work discovered that rewrites the iconographic history of the city. On display.

A painting believed lost for centuries unexpectedly resurfaced on the art market and is now back on public view through an exhibition dedicated to the visual history of Lerici. It is around this extraordinary discovery that The Rediscovered Painting ...
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Venice, Madonna del Parto by Jacopo Palma il Giovane restored

The large altarpiece of the Madonna del Parto by Jacopo Palma il Giovane (Jacopo Negretti; Venice, 1549 - 1628), now located in the church of San Geremia in Venice, returns to the center of critical and historical attention after a conservation inter...
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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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