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Michelangelo's Tondo Doni: origins and significance of one of the greatest masterpieces in art history

It is the only work on a movable support that can be assigned with certainty to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564): it is the Tondo Doni, the masterpiece preserved at the Uffizi Gallery and created at the behest of one of the ri...
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Florence, the New Sacristy, Michelangelo's masterpiece, restored to light conditions similar to those devised by the genius

The Museo delle Cappelle Medicee in Florence presents a new chapter in the history of the New Sacristy, the celebrated environment that Michelangelo Buonarroti (Caprese, 1475 - Rome, 1564) designed in 1519 at the behest of Pope Leo X and through Ca...
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Now on sale online The Sixteenth Century in Florence, the audiobook series by Finestre Sull'Arte

Starting today, Il Cinquecento a Firenze (The Sixteenth Century in Florence), the first audiobook series by Finestre sull'Arte, is on sale online. Eleven volumes, ten hours of storytelling to narrate the developments and historical-artistic event...
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Uffizi, new room dedicated to Michelangelo and Raphael opens. Exclusive preview photos

A new room dedicated to Michelangelo and Raphael was unveiled today at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. In the room, room 41 of the Ponente Corridor, some of the most important masterpieces of the museum and of the Renaissance have been arranged: ...
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Marcialla's fake Michelangelo: a case mounted on thin air

A Michelangelo fresco discovered in the countryside in Florentine Chianti. The news, put in these terms (i.e., the way certain media have titled it, with a good dose of sensationalism), would be truly epoch-making: however, as happens whenever th...
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Palestrina's Pieta: the most famous work not by Michelangelo

It was 1756 when the Prenestine historian Leonardo Cecconi, in his Storia di Palestrina (History of Palestrina), gave an account of a Pietà that was then in the church of Santa Rosalia, and to be precise in the Barberini chapel: it was described a...
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Lionello Puppi: Michelangelo's Crucifixion discovered. But we await the opinions of the scientific community

The press office of the El Greco exhibition in Treviso had announced in the last few hours that a new discovery would be presented to the public today: certainly, few imagined that among the others there would be a discovery that, if confirmed, would...
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A Love Called Sistine

We very gladly receive and publish this story, which came to us from one of our fans, Riccardo Tomasello, from Catania, Italy: a beautiful narrative about what one can experience when admiring one of the world's greatest masterpieces of art history...
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