Renaissance - Finestre sull'Arte

Milan, new revelations about Leonardo's St. John the Baptist in the Ambrosiana

Forty years after the last studies, the Saint John the Baptist, attributed to the circle of Leonardo da Vinci and preserved at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, has been at the center of a campaign of diagnostic and historical-critical st...
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The horse, the mace and the face: drawings by Leonardo on display at the Leonardo3 Museum in Milan

The Horse, the Mazzocchio and the Master's Face. Milanese Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Francesco Melzi: thus is the title of the exhibition that in Milan, from Nov. 18, 2024, to Feb. 15, 2025, the Museo Leonardo3 in Piazza Scala is displaying fo...
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An intense journey among the great and forgotten of the 16th century in Ferrara. What the exhibition at the Palazzo dei Diamanti looks like

If we were to accompany Jacob Burckhardt on his visits to the galleries of Rome and listen to him as he pauses to describe the pieces that most and best captured his interest, we would most likely derive sharp adjectives from them, suitable for defin...
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Milan, this year Federico Barocci for the city's Christmas exhibition.

From Dec. 4, 2024 to Jan. 12, 2025, the new Palazzo Marino Christmas exhibition arrives in Milan : in fact, for several years now the City of Milan has been used to hosting a one-work exhibition for the holidays. This year the star is the Madonna an...
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Oxford's Ashmolean Museum acquires a masterpiece by Beato Angelico

The youthful Crucifixion by Beato Angelico (Giovanni da Fiesole, born Guido di Pietro; Vicchio, c. 1395 - Rome, 1455), a splendid work by the artist bridging the Gothic and Renaissance periods that had reappeared on the market in June 2023, has been ...
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Lazzaro Bastiani. An artist on the margins of the greats of the early Venetian Renaissance.

Roberto Longhi-in an essay written between 1925 and 1926, but published posthumously-was able to summarize with a proposition of unusual clarity the critical history of Lazzaro Bastiani, documented as a depentor from 1456 to 1512, when in the list of...
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If Jupiter paints butterflies: the magical painting by Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi had a boundless imagination: his whimsical, versatile, ingenious, imaginative flair is among the most celebrated in the history of art, and few in his era could come close to his visionary imagination. A myth, a literary text, a biblical ...
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Mantua, masterpiece by Girolamo Bonsignori joins Ducal Palace collection

In Mantua, the Ducal Palace recently enriched its collection of Renaissance art with an extraordinary work by Girolamo Bonsignori, theAdoration of the Shepherds. The painting was purchased at a Christie's auction in New York on May 23, 2024 (awarded ...
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