Art News

Wednesday 18 August 2010

Red-Hot Mid-August: Hands Off The David

If this year mid-August did not seem quite hot enough in Italy, the red-hot polemics about Michelangelo’s David certainly made up for it. This is what has happened in the past days: two lawyers would have ...

by Silvia Bosi

Work of the Week

Thursday 15 July 2010

In Catanzaro, Pistoletto With The Dna Of The Third Paradise

There is ferment at the Archaeological Park of Scolacium for the organisation of the exhibition dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto, on scene this year for the fifth edition of Intersections, a project that unites contemporary art and ...

by arcadja

Art Market

Monday 21 June 2010

Italian Art Auction At Phillips De Pury In London

Phillips de Pury & Co. are continuing their successful cycle of theme-based sales. If in the last months the Anglo-Saxon auction house has proposed catalogues such as New York, New York, Africa, Sex or Bric, this time they are ...

by Elena Lanzanova

Flashnews

Thursday 17 June 2010

Confirmation On Caravaggio’s Remains

Ravenna - A team of medical anthropologists have cleared up 400-year-old mystery surrounding Caravaggio's final resting place, identifying his grave and even his bones. The investigation, launched six months ago, has concluded that the painter was indeed buried in Porto ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Thursday 10 June 2010

Bouguereau’s “pietà” Tops Old Masters Sale

A French painting inspired by Michelangelo's "Pieta" topped Christie's mid-season Old Masters and 19th century art auction, selling for $2.77 million. Spanning seven centuries of European painting, the sale fetched $11.75 million, nearly double the $6.5 million sold a year ...

by arcadja

Art News

Tuesday 27 April 2010

A Michelangelo Overlooked At The Met?

Is it possible to overlook a Michelangelo for forty years? The answer could be yes, but it is already a certainty for Everett Fahy, one of the most renowned scholars of the Italian Renaissance and former ...

by Silvia Bosi

Flashnews

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Sketches From The Birth Of A Golden Age

The British Museum plays host to a highly illustrious gathering. Here, unfurling in its latest show, one after the other, are works by the most famous masters of the Italian Renaissance. Here is the grand creative dream of a magical ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Thursday 15 April 2010

The Met May Have Unknowingly Acquired A Michelangelo

According to the Los Angeles Times, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art may have had a Michelangelo painting in its collection without actually knowing it. A recent article in ARTNews proposes that Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness (about 1510) ...

by arcadja

Art Exhibits

Tuesday 13 April 2010

A Walk Around The Sienese Quattrocento

The early Renaissance, that germinal phase still distinguished by elements of gothic elegance but already projected towards the future, is the theme of an art exhibition in Siena. From Jacopo della Quercia to Donatello. Arts in Siena in the ...

by Silvia Bosi

Flashnews

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Caravaggio: Prince Of Darkness

The Vatican has just lent its greatest counter-reformation altarpiece, Caravaggio's Entombment, to the artist's anniversary exhibition in Rome, but it would be surprising if Pope Benedict XVI made the short journey to the Quirinal Palace to enjoy the show. It's ...

by arcadja

Flashnews

Tuesday 30 March 2010

The Vatican’s Altar Images

It takes chutzpah to embellish the greatest works of art the Western world has produced. As these pictures show, however, the British film-maker Peter Greenaway is not afraid to try. Best known for The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & ...

by arcadja

Work of the Week

Friday 19 March 2010

Leonardo’S Unseen Princess To Be Premièred In Sweden

The masterpiece has only recently been attributed to Leonardo by professor Vezzosi, thanks to a number of tests which were later confirmed by a fingerprint found on the painting. Now the unseen Leonardo – “Profile of ...

by arcadja