Painting
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
Culture
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…
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