Walking in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, and turning around its main church, you arrive in front of a...
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The meaning of the word transfiguration is: “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual...
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Art critic and politician Giovanni Morelli played a key role in the history of art. Here is an honest portrait...
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The dream-exhibition at the National Gallery opens a debate in Italy about the so called 'blockbuster' shows, which confuse entertainment...
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Venice introduces the show about Mantegna and Bellini that the National Gallery is going to open next October by putting...
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2016 marks five hundred years since the death of Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, the seminal artist who embodied the transition...
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We sat down with Serban Savu, the painter who represented Romania at the Venice Biennale with a huge social polyptych.
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A new interpretation of the “Allegory of Girolamo Casio” by Boltraffio, which celebrated the poet’s gift for silence and loyalty...
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Bringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the...
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The evolution of painting could also be captured by chasing shadows. An itinerary among five less known masters to be...
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Five unusual pictures of wild animals from the Renaissance provide an insight into the human/beast relationship, situating it between myth...
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Antonello da Messina painted Saint Sebastian to ward off the plague. And he hid a mystery in the navel of...
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As all great art collectors in the Renaissance, also Isabella d'Este was mainly buying contemporary art, but with a deep...
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Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli collected antiques, and kept them connected with his own time. That is why the museum he...
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ROSALIND: Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come, sister, you shall be the priest and...
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One of the factors that marked 2015 has been the frequent presence of art from the past centuries in...
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The opening days have proved that this year the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato in Florence has finally become a top event...
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“A new museum has been created in Brazil. This is a limitless, undiscovered country, whose impenetrable forests and great rivers...
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After seven years of restoration, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, one of the most important art galleries in...
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The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...
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