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”, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Francesco Spano, the chief of staff of Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, resigned today from the post he was given only a few days ago.His tenure thus lasts little more than a week, nine days to be ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When, in August 1623, Maffeo Barberini (Florence, 1568 - Rome, 1644) ascended to the papal throne with the name of Urban VIII, many intellectuals, scientists and artists rested their hopes on this ...

Più di 500 esemplari di piante: tante sarebbero le specie vegetali nella Primavera di Sandro Botticelli. Vediamone alcune, con simboli e significati. “E perché allor tutto apre Primavera, / Il suol ...