Four hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

When artists dissected corpses (and anticipated science)

In a paper preserved at the Royal Library, Leonardo da Vinci writes that, in order to be able to accurately draw the veins of the human body and have "full knowledge of them," he had "disposed of more than ten human bodies, destroying every other mem...
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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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Siena, Giovanni di Paolo's two panels shine again after restoration

Two panels by one of the most important Sienese masters of the 15th century, Giovanni di Paolo (Siena, c. 1403 - 1482), shine in Siena: the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist, the two panels by Giovanni di Paolo from the Oratory of Saints John and ...
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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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Renaissance masterpieces in Fermo: exhibition on Adriatic culture at Palazzo dei Priori

Fermo celebrates its artistic heritage with the exhibition Renaissance in Fermo, a journey through the Adriatic Renaissance that pays tribute to one of the most fascinating periods in the city's thousand-year history. The exhibition, open to the publ...
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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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