Five hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

France blocks last-minute auction of rare Hans Baldung Grien drawing

One of the most eagerly anticipated sales of the year for the antique drawing market was to be held on the afternoon of March 23 in the historic setting of theHôtel Drouot in Paris. Instead, just hours before bids were to be opened, the auction...
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At the Civic Museum of Bari, an exhibition places Rembrandt and Barocci engravings in dialogue

Two great protagonists ofengraving, who lived more than 70 years apart and in very different geographical contexts, meet ideally in Bari in the exhibition Rembrandt and Barocci. Engraving Light, hosted at the Museo Civico di Bari from March 19 to May...
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Rosso Fiorentino's first painting rediscovered: the Met in New York will acquire it

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has announced plans to acquire a newly rediscovered painting by Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo; Florence, 1494 - Fontainebleau, 1540), one of the leading figures of Mannerism. The work, a Mado...
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Vatican Museums resurface a work by El Greco

The Vatican Museums let it be known that they have found a work by El Greco (Domínikos Theotokópoulos; Candia, 1541 - Toledo, 1614) hitherto unknown because it was misunderstood: it is a Redeemer , which is now on display at thePapal Pa...
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Two exhibitions at the Borghese Gallery between Renaissance and Baroque: Penni and Provenzale

From March 17 to May 10, 2026, the Galleria Borghese in Rome will restart its dossier exhibition program with two research projects dedicated to works from the collection and important moments in the museum's history. The exhibitions, entitled Return...
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On the scaffolding of Michelangelo's Last Judgment: how the colors of the masterpiece are reborn

The action is quick and painless, the result immediate and comforting under the magnificent vault of the Sistine Chapel. That veil of white that has thickened exclusively over Michelangelo's Last Judgment, dulling the 391 figures painted by the maste...
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Is the Pieta popping up in Belgium by Michelangelo? No: here's what you need to know

After the case of the bust of Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, the last few days a new proposed attribution to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) concerning a painting depicting a Pieta has rekindled the interest of scholars and observers...
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From Vienna to Rome: over fifty masterpieces from the Kunsthistorisches Museum for the first time in Italy

From March 6 to July 5, 2026, the Museo del Corso-Museum Pole in Rome, at the Palazzo Cipolla, welcomes for the first time in Italy more than fifty masterpieces from the collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, to tell the story of a co...
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