Luca Signorelli - Finestre sull'Arte

All of Luca Signorelli in just two rooms. What the five-hundredth anniversary exhibition in Cortona looks like

Seventy precise years separate the first modern monographic exhibition on Luca Signorelli, the one held in 1953 first in Cortona and then in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi, from the more recent one, namely the one organized this year for the 500th anniv...
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Luca Signorelli, the frescoes in the Chapel of San Brizio in Orvieto Cathedral.

LOpera del Duomo di Orvieto, after a series of attempts that climbed over the span of half a century, finally found in Luca Signorelli the right artist to cover the Nova or San Brizio chapel with mural paintings. The portion of the vault,...
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Dante and Orvieto, from Luca Signorelli to Federico Zuccari

Finally, 2020 has come to a close, and the first day of the new year was celebrated by a cultural fact of significance and good omen for the art world. The Uffizi Galleries opened the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante Ali...
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The discovery of the Titulus Crucis and reactions in art: Michelangelo and Signorelli

The Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome preserves a small artifact of great value to Catholic devotion: it is the Titulus Crucis, the tablet that according to tradition was affixed to Jesus' cross as a sign of mockery, identifying him ...
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The Wonder of the Ancient in Luca Signorelli. Rome's classical charm on display at the Capitoline Museums.

In the late 19th century, Maud Cruttwell, author of one of the first extensive monographs on Luca Signorelli (Cortona, c. 1450 - 1523), wrote that the great artist from Cortona would be destined to find nothing but bitterness in Rome. Indeed, bey...
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Rome's Capitoline Museums devote an exhibition to Luca Signorelli, with about sixty works

As the five-hundredth anniversary of Raphael's death approaches, the Capitoline Museums pay tribute to one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, Tuscan painter Luca Signorelli (Cortona, c. 1450 - 1523), with the exhibition Luca Signorelli and R...
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