Painting
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 09/24/2019 - 00:00
After a two-year restoration work, the Sala degli Elementi, on the second floor of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, has reopened to the public.
The Sala degli…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 09/06/2019 - 04:22
Tintoretto was one of the leading painters in Venice between the 15th and 16th centuries – he spent almost his entire life in Venice, where he was born in 1518…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 01/17/2019 - 03:00
Uffizi Gallery director Eike Schmidt is urging Germany to return an 18th-century painting stolen by the Nazis in the Second World War to Italy.
The oil…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Tue, 03/28/2017 - 10:20
It took six years to complete, but the result was worth the wait: the painstaking restoration of Leonardo’s unfinished Adoration of the Magi by Opificio delle…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Thu, 02/23/2017 - 06:00
Giovanni and Gentile Bellini, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Paolo Veronese, Cima da Conegliano, Taddeo Zuccari, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Lorenzo Lotto…the quantity…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Fri, 04/29/2016 - 03:25
Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, from the name of the town near Milan where he was born, was one of Italy’s most influential painters between…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 02/10/2016 - 00:00
Ancient truffles, huge pumpkins and watermelons, strange cauliflower, big apricots, giant citron lemons, fava beans, sheaves of wheat, grape bunches, pears,…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 12/02/2015 - 02:00
[Image: Peter Paul Rubens. Adorazione dei pastori, 1608, Fermo, Pinacoteca Civica. Photo: Daniele Maiani.]
Milan’s Christmas gift to the city’s residents and…
Culture
by Silvia Donati | Wed, 09/23/2015 - 00:00
[Image: Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, fresco from 'The Love of the Gods', Annibale Carracci, 1595-1605.]
The Galleria Carracci, a monumental fresco cycle in…
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