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The Louvre Museum has obtained a rare Cimabue painting, which was rescued from being discarded, three years after losing it at an auction

Art news • 3 minutes read

A Cimabue painting, originally discovered above a kitchen stove in France and subsequently sold at auction for €24 million (equivalent to $26 million today), has finally found its way to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a three-year delay due to a rival bidder...

The Creation of Adam (c. 1511) by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Michelangelo Buonarroti • 19 minutes read

On the right side, there is a depiction of God, suspended in the air, surrounded by a halo supported by angels and cherubim. On the left side, we see Adam lying down on a meadow, overlooking a grassy slope...

Bacchus by Caravaggio

Art history • 8 minutes read

Caravaggio's Bacchus is a masterpiece of Baroque painting, depicting the Roman god of wine and fertility reclining on a bed of grapes and holding a goblet of wine in his left hand. The painting is notable for its striking use of light and shadow, and its intense emotional impact.

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi • 13 minutes read

Caravaggio, whose full name was Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), was an Italian Baroque painter. He is known for his use of dramatic lighting and intense realism in his paintings, as well as for his tumultuous life and controversial personality...

Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli • 16 minutes read

Alessandro Botticelli, also known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian painter who lived during the Renaissance period. He was born in Florence in 1445 and died in 1510...

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting

Artemisia Gentileschi • 8 minutes read

The way the painting is put together is similar to other works of art from the time. It uses diagonal lines to show off the woman and show how she is moving both toward the canvas and away from it...

Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi • 18 minutes read

Artemisia Lomi, also called Artemisia Gentileschi, was an Italian Baroque painter who lived from 1593 to around 1656. Gentileschi is thought to be one of the best artists of the 1600s...

Tuscan artists: from Andrea del Sarto to the contemporary.

Tuscany • 10 minutes read

Imagine that you are walking in the Florence (Tuscany) of the 1500s, having the opportunity to look closely at the recent and laborious building of the Duomo, the adjacent and older baptistery, as well as the other iconic buildings, also located in the present historic center. Now that you are in the cradle of the Renaissance you can think, that, in the aforementioned places, almost unchanged in the modern age, the greatest artists in the history of art lived and worked...

Paolo Benedetti, the technique of "Contemporary Graphics".

innovative technique • 3 minutes read

Paolo Benedetti's very personal production stands out for the use of a technique, considered by many art critics to be genuinely interesting and unique, called "Contemporary Graphics", where vibrant brushstrokes create "New Visual Suggestions "...

Shopping depicted in art

telemaco signorini • 6 minutes read

Christmas is just around the corner, and with it, the shopping spree! But what relationship does art have with commerce? Some works of art have certainly represented a precious testimony of the evolution, occurred during the centuries, of the modalities of sale and of advertisement of consumer goods...

italian art : 11 Articles

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