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Sansepolcro, restoration of Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition ends after seven years

The precious altarpiece of the Deposition of Christ, a 16th-century masterpiece by Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo; Florence, 1494 - Fontainebleau, 1540), has finally returned to Sansepolcro after seven years, during which it underwent ...
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Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition: a chilling hallucination

One of the most beautiful, most evocative and most famous descriptions of Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition, the masterpiece by Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Florence, 1494 - Fontainebleau, 1540) kept at the Pinacoteca Civica in Volterra, can be read betw...
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Volterra, two contemporary artists reinterpret Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition after 500 years

This year marks the five hundredth anniversary of the creation of Rosso Fiorentino's Deposition from the Cross, a masterpiece preserved in the Pinacoteca Comunale of Volterra. On this occasion, gallery owner Francesca Sacchi Tommasi has conceived and...
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Now on sale online The Sixteenth Century in Florence, the audiobook series by Windows on Art

Starting today, Il Cinquecento a Firenze (The Sixteenth Century in Florence), the first audiobook series by Finestre sull'Arte, is on sale online. Eleven volumes, ten hours of storytelling to narrate the developments and historical-artistic event...
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