Yesterday, June 12, 2025, at theMaffei Palace in Verona, an incident reignited the debate on the value and fragility of contemporary art: two visitors took advantage of the momentary absence of the ...

Nato a Roma nel 1962, Carlo Alberto Bucci si è laureato nel 1989 alla Sapienza con Augusto Gentili. Dalla tesi, dedicata all’opera di “Bartolomeo Montagna per la chiesa di San Bartolomeo a Vicenza”, ...

Caravaggio 2025 in Rome's Palazzo Barberini is more than a blockbuster exhibition: it's an exhibition. And from a scholarly point of view, it is a lukewarm occasion. Main reason to see it: the ...

Visiting the Museum of Palazzo Taglieschi in Anghiari, where a marvelous polychrome wood sculpture by Jacopo della Quercia is preserved, you will happen to come across a very curious slab made of ...

More than 500 plant specimens: so many would be the plant species in Sandro Botticelli's Primavera. Let's look at some of them, with symbols and meanings. The goddess Venus with, behind her, the ...

The Museo Ottocento Bologna presents, from Oct. 18, 2024 to March 3, 2025, the exhibition Dinastia Savini Giacomo (1768-1842) Alfonso (1838-1908) Alfredo (1868-1924) dedicated to the Savini family, ...

Pietro Rigolo is the new head of Pinacoteca Agnelli’s collection and chief curator of the institution; he will thus take over from Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, chief curator and head of the curatorial ...

It is inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Antwerp, located in the middle of the narrow streets of the Grote Markt, that some of Flanders' most important artistic treasures are to be found. And it is ...

Identified in Trent four fragments of the Senemnetjer papyrus, an extremely rare Book of the Dead from Saqqara. The discovery, of exceptional importance for Egyptology, enriches the collection of the ...

It has been definitively established that the Lion towering in St. Mark's Square in Venice is actually a Chinese monster. Here is how the discovery was made, and what it entails. Over the past ...

At the heart of the Domus Aurea, a unique heritage resurfaces: precious pigments, including a rare ingot of Egyptian blue, reveal the level of excellence of imperial workshops and ideally link ...

The city of Bruges is a must-see for all art enthusiasts on a trip to Belgium. The capital of West Flanders is a resplendent jewel, with its medieval old town that has been a UNESCO World Heritage ...