The week on TV, from the lost Caravaggio to the myth of Tutankhamun – Arte.it

Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio), See the manAfter the Restoration, 1605-1609. Oil on canvas, 111×86 cm. Private collection Appointments at Sky ArteThe painting from the living room of a house in Madrid See a man by Caravaggio is attracting the attention of collectors and art dealers: could it be a lost Caravaggio? From this residence begins […]

Peggy Guggenheim in London: the birth of a collector soon to be seen in Venice – Venice – Arte.it

Vasily Kandinsky, Dominant curveApril 1936, oil on canvas, 194.3 x 129.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York Venice – “I’ve been in love with Venice for fifty years. If I didn’t live here, I’d be living in the English countryside.” These words by Peggy Guggenheim […]

Rome in noir with the atmosphere of Jack Vettriano – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – From him in 2004 Singing butler it had sold at Sotheby’s for almost £750,000, despite official art critics who had never forgiven his self-taught training and light aesthetic. Yet Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, born Jack Hoggan, has come a long way, with his remarkable ability to create evocative atmospheres that can evoke intense […]

Everything about Ecce Homo, Antonello da Messina’s masterpiece acquired by the state – Arte.it

Antonello da Messina, See the mancirca 1460-1465, Oil on panel I Courtesy of National Directorate of Italian Museums It was probably the last work of Antonello da Messina remained in private hands the ‘rare and exceptional masterpiece’ that the Italian state acquired in recent days for 14.9 million dollars (approximately 12.6 million euros), shortly […]

Unforgettable: Ghent rediscovers forgotten Flemish artists – World – Arte.it

Clara Peeters, Still life with cheese and shrimpsca.1612-21, Oil on panel, Private collection, Antwerp World – Magdalena van de Passe excelled in engraving, printing on satin and linen and patented a new method for printing on nightcaps. In Antwerp, Martina and Catharina Plantin, as well as Anna-Philippina and Isabella Regina Reyns, led the flourishing […]

Unforgettable. From Antwerp to Amsterdam Ghent rediscovers forgotten artists – World – Arte.it

Clara Peeters, Still life with cheese and shrimpsca.1612-21, Oil on panel, Private collection, Antwerp World – Magdalena van de Passe excelled in engraving, printing on satin and linen and patented a new method for printing on nightcaps. In Antwerp, Martina and Catharina Plantin, but also Anna-Philippina and Isabella Regina Reyns, led the flourishing family […]

Not a muse, but presence. Woman in Carlo Vercelli’s painting, between memory and change – Arte.it

In recent years, the theme of women has returned to the center of international artistic debate, not only as an operation of historical recovery, but also as a terrain for cultural redefinition. In a few weeks in Flanders Museum of Fine Arts Ghent will inaugurate”Unforgettable. Women artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1660-1750“, a major exhibition […]

Comparison of the last judgments in Turin. Beato Angelico in the eyes of Bartholomeus Spranger – Turin – Arte.it

Line-up, “Beato Angelico in the Eyes of Bartholomeus Spranger. Comparison of the Last Judgments”. Royal Museums of Turin | Thanks to Andrea Guermani for the Royal Museums of Turin Turin – Painted in tempera and gold on wood, the Final judgment of the Museum of San Marco represents the first known representation of this […]

ART AND PROPAGANDA arrives in Sweden – World – Arte.it

World – ART AND PROPAGANDAthe documentary written and directed by Eleonora Zamparutti e Piero Muscara per ARTE.it originals arrives in Stockholm in collaboration with Rai Cultura thanks to the distribution agreement signed by Mediawan rights with the Swedish TV channel Axes TV. Axess TV is a Swedish television channel from the Axel and Margaret Ax:son […]