Five hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

At the Diocesan Museum in Milan, four contemporary artists challenge Tintoretto

From March 4 to May 25, 2025, on the occasion of Lent and Easter, the Diocesan Museum "Carlo Maria Martini" in Milan presents Around Tintoretto. The Deposition from the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. Four Contemporary Artists Challenged by a Mast...
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Italia Nostra and the restoration of three Renaissance sculptures at Milan's Duomo Museum

Italia Nostra returns to support Milan's artistic heritage with an intervention that restores new light to three precious sculptures in Milan's Duomo Museum. Thanks to the contribution of the Milan branch of the association, established in 1955 to pr...
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Rome, Villa Caffarelli will host an exhibition on the Farnese family in 16th century Rome

From February 11 to May 18, 2025, the exhibition I Farnese in Sixteenth-Century Rome will be hosted at the Capitoline Museums, Villa Caffarelli. Origins and fortune of a collection, curated by Claudio Parisi Presicce and Chiara Rabbi Bernard, promote...
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The image of power. The portrait of Eleanor of Toledo in Pisa.

The most famous image of Eleanor of Toledo, born Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici and duchess consort of Tuscany, is surely the one painted by Bronzino and now preserved in the Uffizi: the Portrait of Eleonora di ...
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Buy for little money a portrait in Texas: it was a precious miniature by Lavinia Fontana

A miniature by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614) has resurfaced after two hundred years of oblivion: credit for the discovery goes to English antiquarian Nick Cox, owner of the Period Portraits gallery, which specializes in antique portrai...
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Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara

In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...
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Città di Castello has a new Luca Signorelli: returned to the master the Santa Cecilia Altarpiece after restoration

A Renaissance masterpiece re-emerges from the dust of time. After a full restoration that revealed its authenticity, the St. Cecilia Altarpiece, housed in the Pinacoteca comunale of Città di Castello, has been given to Luca Signorelli and his ...
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Sebastiano del Piombo, the musician painter of the Renaissance: a monumental book on his career

Eclectic, ambitious, refined: let's talk about Sebastiano Luciani (Venice, 1485 - Rome, 1547), better known as Sebastiano del Piombo, among the most versatile and original artists of 16th-century Venice. And it is Sebastiano's art that is the focus o...
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