Latest Updates Around The World
Roma – A red carpet runs along a spectacular cinematic staircase, designed by Oscar-winning set designer Dante Ferretti, inviting the visitor to ascend to a world populated by gods and ancient heroes. After traversing this vibrant, constantly revised mythology that speaks to today’s world, guests of the Palazzo Nuovo of the Capitoline Museums are invited […]
Roma – A suggestive archaeological site in the capital is fully accessible again and regains its integrity. The Mausoleum of Saint Helena and the Catacombs of Saints Marcellin and Peter, forgotten for decades, have been the focus of particular attention in recent years: on the occasion of the 2025 anniversary, restoration and valorization works have […]
Jacques-Louis David, The death of Marat © © Grand Palais (Museum of the Louvre), photo Mathieu Rabeau Reading and rereading the classics is useful because they always have something new to say. In the same way, visiting museums helps to see food for thought among the images of art history that sheds new light […]
Palermo – A radiant Christ in Carrara marble rises in the apartments of the Royal Palace, bringing the sublime aesthetics of the great Michelangelo to Palermo. The imposing statue was only attributed to the master from 2001 onwards thanks to the scholar Silvia Danesi Squarzina and her then student Irene Baldriga, who recognized in the […]
As the land of Aquileia – overlooking the sea, at the mouth of the Torre and Natisone rivers – slowly opens up beneath the feet of explorers, layers of time are revealed that speak of power, trade and crossroads of civilizations. It is here that the Department of Cultures and Civilizations of the University of […]
Florence – A man dressed in torn clothes, depicted in the gesture of asking for alms, his bright pupils, in contrast to his very white sclera, examine the spectator with the same solemnity as a nobleman or a man in cloak. The dark-haired beggar by Giacomo Ceruti, the painter of the latter, who brings to […]
Beato Angelico, Franciscan triptych (det.), 1428-1429. By concession from the Ministry of Culture – Regional Directorate of National Museums of Tuscany – San Marco Museum Beato Angelico protagonist on Sky Arte The painter monk who managed to transform spirituality into images of pure harmony brings his timeless masterpieces to light on TV. It happens […]
Vincent van Gogh, Auvers, Wheat fields with mower1890, olio su tela, cm. 73.6×93. Toledo Art Museum Treviso – A collection little known in Italy, but keeper of breathtaking masterpieces: it is that of the Toledo Museum of Art, which in the heart of Ohio brings together more than 30,000 works of art, from Pieter […]
Donato Bramante, Temple of San Pietro in Montorio, 1502, Rome Il Small temple of San Pietro in Montoriomade by Donato Bramante in Rome around 1502, despite its small size, it is considered a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture. Commissioned by the Catholic Kings of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, the Tempietto marks the traditional site of St. […]
Naples – A glass paste vase, produced in Alexandria, Egypt, depicting hunting scenes in Egyptian style, is the latest novelty to appear in Pompeii in the kitchen of the Thermopolium of the Region V.The Street Food partially excavated in 2020/21 yielded the glass container, usually used in the Vesuvian area as a valuable element for […]
