Four hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Venice, painting rediscovered in Correr Museum storerooms was possibly made in Mantegna's atelier

After a long and complex restoration, the Madonna and Child, St. John and Six Saints, a late 15th-century work rediscovered in the deposits of the Correr Museum in Venice, is coming home and will be on public display from December 18, 2024. This pain...
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Two works by Colantonio enrich the collections of the Capodimonte Museum and Royal Woods

The Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco in Naples welcomes to its collections two precious tablets depicting the Franciscan Blesseds Morico and Leone, masterpieces by Colantonio, the greatest exponent of 15th-century Neapolitan painting and 'master' of...
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Did the young Antonello da Messina work on the Triumph of Death in Palermo? The scholar's hypothesis

Could the young Antonello da Messina have been involved in the creation of the Triumph of Death in Palermo, one of the most renowned frescoes of the 15th century? This is the hypothesis of young art historian Riccardo Prinzivalli, a doctoral student ...
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Lazzaro Bastiani. An artist on the margins of the greats of the early Venetian Renaissance.

Roberto Longhi-in an essay written between 1925 and 1926, but published posthumously-was able to summarize with a proposition of unusual clarity the critical history of Lazzaro Bastiani, documented as a depentor from 1456 to 1512, when in the list of...
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Two Perugino panels return to Perugia: purchased at auction by Perugia Foundation

Two works by Perugino (Pietro Vannucci; Città della Pieve, c. 1445 - Fontignano, 1523) long kept abroad are returning to his homeland. Indeed, the Perugia Foundation has announced the acquisition of two panels, Christ Crowned with Thorns (1497...
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Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ in two works by David Hockney. On view at the National Gallery

Two paintings by David Hockney (Bradford, 1937), considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century, feature within their composition reproductions of the Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca (Borgo Sansepolcro, 1412/141...
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Arezzo kicks off 62nd edition of Cortonantiquaria antiques show

Opening to the public from August 24 to September 8, 2024, is the 62nd edition of the Cortonantiquaria antiques exhibition at the Sant'Agostino Convention Center in Arezzo. Promoted by the Municipality of Cortona and Cortona Sviluppo with the artisti...
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Trent, inaugurated the Simonino Classroom to tell and remember the case of Simonino da Trento

The Simonino Chapel in Trento, located inside Palazzo Bortolazzi Larcher Fogazzaro on Via del Simonino, becomes Aula del Simonino: it had been bequeathed to FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano by Marina Larcher Fogazzaro in 2018 so that it could be r...
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