Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

When artists dissected corpses (and anticipated science)

In a paper preserved at the Royal Library, Leonardo da Vinci writes that, in order to be able to accurately draw the veins of the human body and have "full knowledge of them," he had "disposed of more than ten human bodies, destroying every other mem...
Read more...

A Renaissance fresco reborn in Urbania. A restoration that could shed light on its author

A fresco tarnished by time, a fresco important to its city and its inhabitants, a fresco that has been revived thanks to careful restoration. We are talking about the restoration of the fresco of the Madonna and Child with Saints, a Renaissance work ...
Read more...

France, Douai museum announces discovery of a rare portrait of Lavinia Fontana

The Musée de la Chartreuse in Douai, northern France, announces that it has discovered what the institution says is an unpublished painting by Lavinia Fontana (Bologna, 1552 - Rome, 1614), one of the greatest painters of the 16th century. The ...
Read more...

The seduction of color: Andrea Solario at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum

The Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan kicks off the 2025 exhibition season with an exhibition that, from March 26 to June 30, 2025, celebrates one of the protagonists of the Lombard and Italian Renaissance: Andrea Solario (Milan, c. 1470 - 1524). The exh...
Read more...

Pompeii, attributed to Mantegna a newly discovered painting. It will go on display at the Vatican Museums

Is there an unpublished work by Andrea Mantegna in Pompeii? A discovery that was officially announced today by the Prelature of Pompeii is making noise: a Deposition of Christ preserved in the Pontifical Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of the Holy Rosar...
Read more...

From Venice, Andrea Mantegna's St. Sebastian on loan to Mantua's Ducal Palace

From April 12, 2025, the Doge's Palace in Mantua will welcome Andrea Mantegna 's Saint Sebastian from the Giorgio Franchetti Gallery at the Ca' d'Oro in Venice. Documented in 1506 at the heirs of the great painter, who painted it in the last years of...
Read more...

The passage of time through the cycles of nature: Renaissance masterpieces on display in Vienna

From March 11 to June 29, 2025, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is hosting the exhibition Arcimboldo - Bassano - Bruegel. The Times of Nature, curated by Francesca Del Torre Scheuch, with installation curated by Gerhard Veigel. Central to the...
Read more...

Gaudenzian cartoons in Turin's Pinacoteca Albertina, a unique Renaissance treasure in the world

It makes no noise, the brush brushing against the canvas. Not even a slight rustle, not even the faintest crinkle. The bristles distribute the color caressing the surface of the canvas without making themselves heard. The paintings are born in silenc...
Read more...