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Giovanni Bellini, “The presentation in the Temple”, 1460 ca., tempera on panel, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice.

Giovanni Bellini? Convince the guard to open the security cordon and let you take a closer look at the back of the painting

  Walking in Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Venice, and turning around its main church, you arrive in front of a...

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The transfigured transfiguration: shaping Giovanni Bellini’s fragments

The meaning of the word transfiguration is: “a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual...

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Portrait of Giovanni Morelli

Giovanni Morelli, the dark connoisseur

by Antonio Carnevale

Art critic and politician Giovanni Morelli played a key role in the history of art. Here is an honest portrait...

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Mantegna and Bellini at the NG sparks debate in Italy

by Stefano Pirovano

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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A family business: Querini Stampalia compares Mantegna and Bellini

by Gianluca Poldi

Venice introduces the show about Mantegna and Bellini that the National Gallery is going to open next October by putting...

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How Italians got crazy over Christo’s floating piers and ignored Bellini’s 500 years anniversary

by Piero Bisello

2016 marks five hundred years since the death of Venetian painter Giovanni Bellini, the seminal artist who embodied the transition...

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Șerban Savu

Serban Savu (a conversation)

by Georgiana But

We sat down with Serban Savu, the painter who represented Romania at the Venice Biennale with a huge social polyptych.

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boltraffio

A poet praised for his silence: Girolamo Casio painted by Boltraffio

by Cristina Quattrini (from Nuovi Studi 26, 2021 anno XXVI)

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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Veronese part

Why take an artwork from the place it was made for?

by Antonio Carnevale

Bringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the...

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Francesco-del-Cossa particolare

What do you know about Renaissance shadow?

by Antonio Carnevale

The evolution of painting could also be captured by chasing shadows. An itinerary among five less known masters to be...

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To be discovered: five unusual Renaissance pictures of wild animals

by Piero Bisello

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 Saint Sebastian

Antonello da Messina’s note for Mantegna is in Sebastian’s navel

by Antonio Carnevale

Antonello da Messina painted Saint Sebastian to ward off the plague. And he hid a mystery in the navel of...

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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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Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli: a call from the past

by Stefano Pirovano

Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli collected antiques, and kept them connected with his own time. That is why the museum he...

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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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A distinct trend in 2015? Old masters’ presence in the room of contemporary art

by Stefano Pirovano

  One of the factors that marked 2015 has been the frequent presence of art from the past centuries in...

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BIAF 2015 places Koons near Michelangelo promising Florence a new Renaissance

by Stefano Pirovano

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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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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Accademia Carrara in Bergamo quietly reopened: the victory of good taste

    After seven years of restoration, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, one of the most important art galleries in...

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Libro d’Ore di Lorenzo de’ Medici, “Annunciation”, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v. (© Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v . Su concessione del MiBACT)

An instructive exhibition dedicated to all those contemporary art collectors who are inflating the bubble

  The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...

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