Six hundred - Finestre sull'Arte

Extraordinary donation to Bergamo Diocesan Museum: 9 works by Baschenis arrive, with rare pieces

Six months after the opening of the new Bernareggi Diocesan Museum in Bergamo, its permanent collection is enhanced thanks to an extraordinary donation that marks a turning point in the institution's history. Guido Crippa, a leading figure in Bergamo...
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Magdalene in Ecstasy attributed to Caravaggio on exhibition in India

For the first time in history, a painting attributed to Caravaggio is on display in India. The much-discussed Magdalene in Ecstasy is in fact the focus of an exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, which opened April 11, 2025...
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A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson: his converted Magdalene, exhibited in Treviso

A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson (Bruges, 1580 - Amsterdam, 1617), a beautiful Conversion of Magdalene is being shown for the first time to the public on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated precisely to the theme of the sinful saint, M...
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A seventeenth-century archbold sculpture between nature and art in the Horti of Pavia

Two eyes made of chestnuts, a nose shaped like a fig, cheeks resembling onions, a forehead resembling a quince, and an artichoke chin whose leaves bend to form two showy mustaches. It is The Keeper of the Kitchen Garden, an imposing Mannerist stone s...
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The Taking of Christ attributed to Caravaggio is on display in Gorizia.

From April 3 to June 30, 2025, the "Smart Space" exhibition space of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia welcomes a much-debated work: The Taking of Christ from the Ruffo Collection, a work that some scholars attribute to Caravaggio as part ...
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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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