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”, ...

Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them “heirlooms.” a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a ...

President Donald Trump ’s announcement of the firing of National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet(here for previous article) has opened an institutional rift that calls into question the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, from December 7, 2024 to May 18, 2025 it will be possible to visit the exhibition Bernini and the Painting of the 1600s.Paintings from the Koelliker Collection, curated by ...

Pompeii's first labyrinth mosaic? It is the one that gives its name to the house that holds it: the House of the Labyrinth. It is also the oldest known Roman mosaic. The true meaning of Roman ...