Memorable display of Raffaello’s tapestries at the Sistine Chapel for his 500th anniversary
To commemorate the 500th year anniversary since Raffaello Sanzio’s premature death at the age of 37 in Rome on the 6th of April 1520, the tapestries designed by the great ...A book on the restoration of Raffaello's Vatican Stanze
On the 13th of November 2018 we had the honor to attend the presentation of the major bo disclosing the recent restoration works performed on Raffaello’s frescoes at the Vatican ...Unprecedented exhibition of the Crouching Boy attributed to Michelangelo in Rome from the Hermitage Museum
Today is the closing of a special exhibition in Rome which has featured since last December 14, 2018 a sculpture attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Crouching Boy, extraordinarily lent by ...Donatello's sculpture exceptionally on view at Palazzo Venezia
Since July 12, 2018 and until April 28, 2019 a terracotta bust attributed to Early Renaissance master Donatello, usually housed in a private collection, is exceptionally on view at the ...Art conversation at the newly opened Palazzo Venezia courtyard
A fascinating series of cultural events is taking place these summer nights until the 16th of September in the context of “Il giardino ritrovato” (The recovered garden) initiative, conceived to ...Pietro Bembo, the humanist cardinal in Rome
The cardinal and humanist Pietro Bembo died on the 18th January 1547 in Rome. Once r of Lucrezia Borgia and influential scholar, he was active in various cultural centers of ...Raffaello, Parmigianino and Barocci at the Musei Capitolini
The exhibition “Raffaello, Parmigianino, Barocci. Metaphors of the Gaze” on view at the Musei Capitolini has been extended to the 24th of January.The painter Cola dell'Amatrice
The artist Nicola Filotesio, called "Cola l'Amatrice", was possibly born on the 9th of September in an undefined year (various records report the years 1480 or 1489) at Filetta, a ...