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 ...

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 ...

Starting January 1, 2026, tourists from outside the European Union will pay more in Paris to visit some of France’s most important museums and monuments.The entrance fee to the Louvre will rise from ...

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”, ...

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 ...

London's new Victoria and Albert Museum depot has been open to visitors since May 31: 16,000 square meters of rarely exhibited collections, including a work by Picasso, Brutalist architecture and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What are the trends in young contemporary painting? How do painters born after 1980 paint, how do they work, and what do they tell? Here is a quick overview. Finally, to close this rapid and ...