FLORENCE.- Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, the first ever exhibition devoted to the paintings of this major 16th century artist, closed at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, on 23 January 2011 having attracted over 140,000 visitors since …
Research by Italians Confirms that Raphael’s ‘Madonna dell Granduca’ was Amended
FLORENCE.- An X-ray analysis has shown that the dark background that appears in one of the most famous paintings by Raphael, the Madonna dell Granduca, is not original, but was added by a painter, who is still unknown. It was until the seventeenth cent…
Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina to Present the Second Emerging Talents Awards
FLORENCE.- Following the success of the 2009 awards, the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina (CCCS) presents the second Emerging Talents, a project comprising an exhibition and prize presenting and promoting the younger generation of successful I…
Valencian Institute for Modern Art Dedicates Exhibition to Paolo Riani: A World of Architects
VALENCIA.- The exhibition dedicated by the IVAM to Paolo Riani comprises, apart from photographs taken all over Europe, America, Japan, Russia and Arabia, a selection of architectonic projects and collections of objects (miniature aeroplanes made of wo…
Restored Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in …
Restored Renaissance Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in …
Restored Renaissance Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in …
Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie Displays Eighteen Works Returned in the Past Ten Years
BERLIN (AP).- A painting of the Florence skyline that hung in Adolf Hitler’s Berlin apartment throughout World War II and was missing for decades went on show Thursday in an exhibition of works returned to the collection of a major German museum. The e…
Bronzino: Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici Opens at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
FLORENCE.- Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino (1503-1572), was one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian painting. Court artist to Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574), his work embodied the sophistication of the Mannerist style. Bronzino….
Norton Simon Museum to Present Raphael’s The Small Cowper Madonna
PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum announced the rare loan of Raphael’s The Small Cowper Madonna, c. 1505, from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. One of about 12 works by Raphael in U.S. collections, this painting of the Madonna …