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A new restoration for Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin, and once again it’s not Italy paying the bill

by Stefano Pirovano

Save Venice Inc. will fund the restoration of Titian's juvenile masterpiece which after 500 years of life is now threatened...

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At the show with the artist: Jannis Varelas on Titian’s Nymph and Shepherd

In occasion of a recent trip to Vienna we arranged a meeting with Los Angeles and Wien based artist Jannis...

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Isabella Stewart Gardner, Katherine Sofie Dreier, Colette Allendy, Hester Diamond

by Carlo Prada

Against the idea that art should be reduced to mere interior decoration, here is a selection of collectors who have...

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Cecco Bravo and a 17th-century subsoil beauty

by Francesca Baldassarri

Cecco Bravo is dramatic and mysterious, feeding on hallucinatory eccentricity to make the viewer feeling part of the scene. 

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Rediscovered Belisarius: a work by Legnanino for Prince of Carignano

by Luca Fiorentino (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

A large canvas by Legnanino representing Roman leader Belisarius has recently been discovered in a private collection

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Why would the rich showcase the poor: the art of Giacomo Ceruti

by Roberta D’Adda & Enrico Valseriati

The 18th century depictions of the poor by Giacomo Ceruti was extensively collected and displayed by the nobles in Brescia....

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Luca Giordano, Fapresto, Famolto, Proteo

by Silvia Tomasi

Ribera, Caravaggio, Rubens, Dürer, Veronese and Titian revive in the art of Luca Giordano, turned into elements for a new...

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calder comb MoMa collection

What are combs for besides untying knots?

by Silvia Tomasi

The answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...

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Velázquez and why even masterpieces need titles

by Antonio Carnevale

La Meninas is Velázquez's most famous masterpiece. However, another of his paintings shows us how words can change our view...

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Five self-portraits at the time of surveillance capitalism

by Antonio Carnevale

What takes you from facial recognition algorithms to a museum of ancient art? The hope of finding an antidote to...

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Sylvain Bellenger on the online future of museums

by Stefano Pirovano

An Interview: Sylvain Bellenger, director of Capodimonte, takes stock of the current situation and predicts the digital future of museums.

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Honoré de Balzac’s Frenhofer and his Unknown Masterpiece

by Antonio Carnevale

Artist Frenhofer, protagonist of The Unknown Masterpiece by Balzac, never fails to raise questions. Especially if you 'reverse' him.

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Srijon Chowdhury, Airplane, 2018; oil on linen, cm. 40,6 x 30,5 Collection Nerina Ciaccia & Antoine Levi, Paris.

COVID-19: art is that window you need to keep open

by Stefano Pirovano

While the Coronavirus is rescheduling 2020 art world's agenda, someone may think it is the time to get smart and...

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Adoration of the shepherds (detail)

Simone Peterzano: master of Caravaggio and censorship’s survivor

by Antonio Carnevale

Simone Peterzano was a pupil of Tiziano, and the master of Caravaggio. But he had to compromise with the Church....

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Ritratto di Isabella d'Este

Isabella d’Este, an exclusive interview

by Stefano Pirovano

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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The National Gallery goes ‘Beyond Caravaggio’ placing a sexy milestone in master’s career

by Geoff Hands

Regretfully, we shall never have the pleasure of viewing, ‘Caravaggio: The Late Works’. Would we have seen something akin to...

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Giorgione at the Royal Academy of Arts in London is so contemporary, contemporary, contemporary…

by Geoff Hands

ROSALIND: Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come, sister, you shall be the priest and...

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Save Venice and Friends of Florence shake hands and look into the future of preservation

The first collaboration between two decisive philanthropic institutions for the Italian artistic heritage such as Save Venice and Friends of...

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Museu de Arte de São Paulo inspects its former director Pietro Maria Bardi

“A new museum has been created in Brazil. This is a limitless, undiscovered country, whose impenetrable forests and great rivers...

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A 500 year old proto-museum run by an art-advisor: the case of polymath Jacopo Strada

It is recent news that Qatar intends to reconvert an enormous flour mill on the waterfront of Doha Bay into...

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