Manuscripts - Finestre sull'Arte

Correr Museum celebrates 700 years since Marco Polo's death with an exhibition on calligraphic cultures

From April 24 to October 15, 2024 at the Museo Correr in Venice, in the Galleria dell'Ala Napoleonica, the exhibition entitled THE WAY OF WRITING Seven hundred years of calligraphic art between East and West, curated by Monica Viero and Monica Dengo,...
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An exhibition at the Estense Galleries on the spoliations and restitutions of the heritage of the Estense Library

From September 16, 2022 to January 7, 2023, the Estensi Galleries presents the exhibition Treasures Returning. Justice and Cultural Legacy. Through period documents and materials, the exhibition addresses the theme of the spoliations and restitutions...
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Queen Mary University researcher discovers two rare manuscript fragments hidden in the Bodleian Library

A researcher at Queen Mary University of London, Tamara Atkin, an expert in English literature and book historian, has discovered two rare manuscript fragments hidden in a 16th-century book in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. They are a fragment telli...
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Dante illustrated through the centuries: the Biblioteca Estense Library exhibits its rarest memorabilia

From September 17, 2021 to January 8, 2022, the Biblioteca Estense of Modena will present the exhibition Dante illustrated over the centuries. Figurative Testimonies in the Collections of the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, thus making the extraord...
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