Palermo - Finestre sull'Arte

Hauser & Wirth acquires Palazzo De Seta in Palermo: toward a new Italian outpost

Hauser & Wirth, one of the most influential art galleries on the international scene, has acquired Palazzo De Seta, a historic building located in the center of the Kalsa district in Palermo. The deal, according to a report by Repubblica Palermo,...
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Michelangelo arrives in Palermo: the Giustiniani cross-bearing Christ at the Royal Palace

Michangelo Buonarroti 's Christ Carrying the Cross preserved in the Monastery of San Vincenzo in Bassano Romano, also known as the Giustiniani Christ or the First Christ of Minerva, will be exhibited in Palermo in the Royal Apartments of the Royal Pa...
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Palermo, Carabinieri hand over valuable gold fund confiscated after illicit exportation

Last Aug. 6, at 6:30 p.m., at the headquarters of the Regional Museum "Abatellis" in Palermo, a Trinity on panel, attributed to Gherardo Starnina (Florence, 1354 - 1413), was formally handed over to the Regional Councillor for Cultural Heritage and S...
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Leopard Palace restored with 10 million, but princess denounces: 'no facilities for us'

Some ten million euros have been invested in 30 years, but no tax breaks have ever come to support those who have chosen to save one of Italy's iconic heritage sites. This is the complaint of Princess Carine Vanni Calvello Mantegna di Gangi, who with...
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Picasso, story of a myth and a complex man. What the Palermo exhibition looks like

Cannibal. At times he had apostrophized himself thus, Pablo Picasso, with lucid consciousness of his own carnal experimentation in continuous search for ever new forms, for unprecedented materials, with an unmistakable stylistic signature that made h...
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Palermo, start of the restoration of the mosaics of the Palatine Chapel

Work will begin in Palermo in the coming days to restore the precious mosaics of the Palatine Chapel, a jewel of Norman art and architecture located inside the Royal Palace. The work, designed and supervised by the Palermo Superintendency of Cultural...
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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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Palermo celebrates its patron saint: the iconography of Saint Rosalie in the masterpieces of great artists

On the occasion of the jubilee anniversary of the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the remains of St. Rosalie, the Sicily Foundation presents the exhibition The Ecstasies of St. Rosalie at the Villa Zito Art Gallery in Palermo. Antoon van Dyck, ...
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