Latium - Finestre sull'Arte

Andrea Pozzo's masterpiece: the Glory of St. Ignatius in Rome

The saint is above a cloud, borne in flight by a swarm of angels, moving over a sky that illusionistically breaks through the vault of the church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, in the heart of Rome: in front of him Jesus with the cross, in the corners th...
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Rome, finishes restoration of Casa Litta at Palazzo Orsini. Opening to the public is being studied

In Rome, the restoration of Casa Litta - Palazzo Orsini, one of the most interesting buildings in the capital's historic center, has been completed: the rooms of the palace, now home to theEmbassy of the Order of Malta to the Holy See, will o...
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"Almost as unbelievable as a church painting." Simon Vouet and his Saint Francis Tempted

Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1921, the physiologist Mariano Luigi Patrizi published a booklet that attempted a psychological reconstruction of Caravaggio's personality from his works: it was entitled Un pittore criminale (A Criminal Painte...
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When Sebastiano del Piombo allied with Michelangelo for a masterpiece: the Pieta of Viterbo

The Albertina in Vienna preserves a drawing, widely attributed to Michelangelo, with some studies of intertwined hands: in the exact center of the sheet, well detached from everything else, stands a male torso, with arms folded and hands join...
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That gardener who is actually a farmer: Van Gogh's "Italian" masterpiece

There are precise reasons why there are only three works by Vincent van Gogh in Italian public collections: the Gardener and theArlesian in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, and the Breton Women in the Galleria ...
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The many lives of the Mausoleum of Augustus, from the dawn of the imperial age to the present day

After a full fourteen years of closure , the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome will reopen to the public in March 2021. The famous structure dates back to the first century BC, and was erected at the behest of the founder of the principality, Oct...
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The Transport of Christ to the Tomb. The complex making of an early masterpiece by Raphael

In the early sixteenth century an Umbrian noblewoman, Atalanta Baglioni, found herself involved as much in a bloody episode that destroyed her family, profoundly marking the history of the city of Perugia, as in the artistic affair that contr...
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Raphael was the first superintendent in history. The letter to Leo X

Many art historians like to define the great Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) as the first superintendent in history, and it is not a stretch to say that his figure constitutes one of the fulcrums of the history of monument protection i...
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