Following the damage yesterday at Palazzo Maffei to the "Van Gogh chair," entirely covered in Swarovski crystals, we return to the work of Nicola Bolla and the central role the material plays in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

What to see in Valnerina: a 10-step itinerary of villages, art and nature. Here you will find a unique peace, with mountains embracing villages suspended in time, clear rivers, lush forests. It is 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, ...

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 ...

As per tradition, on the last day of the year Finestre Sull’Arte publishes the ranking of the best Italian exhibitions of the year just ended. This year, for the ranking of the best exhibitions of ...

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 ...

From January 24 to May 5, 2025, Palazzo Madama in Turin is hosting the exhibition Giro di posta.Primo Levi, the Germanies, Europe, an exhibition that explores Primo Levi’s private correspondences, ...

The National Museum of the Royal Palace in Pisa holds a famous portrait of Eleanor of Toledo, second in fame only to the one in the Uffizi but no less important for its political role: here's what it ...

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 ...