Six hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, an exhibition at Villa Bardini on Roberto Longhi and Anna Banti at the center of a lively intellectual exchange

Villa Bardini in Florence is hosting from March 27 to July 2025 the exhibition Caravaggio and the Twentieth Century. Roberto Longhi, Anna Banti, curated by Cristina Acidini and Claudio Paolini, promoted by the Fondazione CR Firenze in collaboration w...
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MarteS Sorlini Art Museum acquires Pietro Bellotti's La Vecchia popolana, rediscovered in private collecting

The MarteS Museo d'Arte Sorlini of Calvagese della Riviera (Brescia) has acquired La Vecchia popolana by Pietro Bellotti (Roè Volciano, 1625 - Gargnano, 1700), which will thus enter its collection. It is an oil on canvas dated between 1680 and...
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Bernini total artist: what the double exhibition at Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia looks like.

The gilded frames, the mirrors and paintings, the screaming sculpture heads tell of the pomp required by the patrician and the collective effort of the artists to please the gentleman. It is, was, the carriage that, thanks to Giovan Lorenzo Bernini's...
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"Here Are New Discoveries on Guido Reni and Bolognese Painting." Interview with scholar Giulia Iseppi

The recent exhibition on Guido Reni at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna(La favola di Atalanta. Guido Reni e i poeti, which ended last Feb. 16) introduced important new information on the Bolognese artist and, in general, on the artistic environmen...
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Awe, reality, enigma: Pietro Bellotti and seventeenth-century painting on display in Venice

The Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice announces the opening of the exhibition Awe, Reality, Enigma. Pietro Bellotti and Seventeenth-Century Painting in Venice, which will be on view from September 19, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Curated by Francesco Ce...
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An exhibition in Genoa on Cornelis de Wael, the first Flemish master to settle in the city with his own workshop

From March 19, 2025 to June 22, 2025 Palazzo Bianco - Musei di Strada Nuova in Genoa is hosting the exhibition Naturalness and Truth in the Seventeenth Century Illustrated by Cornelis de Wael (1592-1667) dedicated to Cornelis de Wael, a painter from ...
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Palazzo Barberini and Caravaggio. In the bedlam of the blockbuster exhibition of the year.

One struggles beyond measure to catch a glimpse of an exhibition in the exhibition halls of Palazzo Barberini, where for just over a week the public has been admitted to a new, unfailing, unmissable Caravaggio epiphany, organized to coincide with the...
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France, version of Guido Reni's Atalanta and Hippomenes resurfaces: search to see if it is autographed

A version of Guido Reni 'sAtalanta e Ippomene has resurfaced in France that, according to the museum that owns it, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Libourne, Aquitaine, may be an autograph by the great Bolognese artist who, as'is known to have pai...
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