Painting

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by Barry Lillie | Sun, 12/28/2014 - 02:00
There is one painting in the Loeser Collection at Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio that never fails to intrigue the visitors that come to gaze at it. This painting…
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by Katia Amore | Sun, 12/21/2014 - 02:00
This Nativity is a fresco painted by Giotto in the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, as part of one of his finest and most important fresco cycles dedicated to the…
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by Katia Amore | Sun, 12/14/2014 - 01:00
Sistine Madonna, also called La Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael). It is one of the last Madonnas…
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by Katia Amore | Sun, 11/23/2014 - 03:00
Musician Angel (1480) by Melozzo da Forlì - Pinacoteca Vatican Museums Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438 – 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect, one…
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by John Bensalhia | Mon, 11/17/2014 - 09:28
John Bensalhia brushes up on one of the most famous sectors of the Italian Renaissance – the art world. (Read Part 1 - Introduction and Overview here; Part 2…
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by ITALY | Mon, 10/27/2014 - 11:09
The most everyday objects appear in Italian still life paintings, as Aleid Ford explains.   The great age of still life painting in Italy, as in Holland and…
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by Silvia Donati | Thu, 10/16/2014 - 02:30
A recently opened exhibition in Pisa highlights the artistic career of a major modern painter, one that perfectly embodies the myth of the troubled and…
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by Silvia Donati | Fri, 09/26/2014 - 02:30
The Louvre Museum will lend Italy three Leonardo masterpieces for an important exhibition that will coincide in part with the Milan Expo 2015. Belle…
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by Silvia Donati | Thu, 08/28/2014 - 02:00
A painting hidden in the corner of a tiny church in the parish of San Paolo in Arezzo could be the work of the great early Renaissance painter Piero della…
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by Silvia Donati | Mon, 08/25/2014 - 04:06
Three paintings dating to the 15th century were stolen from Milan’s Castello Sforzesco on Saturday. The three canvas by an unidentified Cremona artist were…