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HIGHLIGHTS
Art at Dante’s times
After 2020, the unfortunate year dedicated to Raphael on the 500th anniversary of his death, we are ready to embrace 2021 which in Italy, and around the world, will be the year of Dante’s celebrations, seven hundred years after the death of the great poet. It will be a year full of exhibitions, theatrical productionsmeetings, […]
A proposal for Botticelli (at auction)
“In the past century, and at the beginning of this one, dealing with Botticelli would have seemed madness”, wrote Symonds, a great scholar, specialist of the Italian Renaissance, in 1877. And in 1895, Bernard Shaw followed, among others: “Today ten acres of Carracci, Giulio Romano, Guido, Domenichino and Pietro da Cortona, would not buy an […]
OPINIONS
Art at Dante’s times
After 2020, the unfortunate year dedicated to Raphael on the 500th anniversary of his death, we are ready to embrace 2021 which in Italy, and around the world, will be the year of Dante’s celebrations, seven hundred years after the death of the great poet. It will be a year full of exhibitions, theatrical productionsmeetings, […]
Picasso, it wasn’t you
Art diagnostics is, among other things, an outpost for the protection of cultural heritage. The one case we are presenting here is one of the many we have treated. Not all of them become public, as they do not all end in court. Moreover, we have to respect the secrecy of the investigations and the […]
DISCOVERIES
The discreet charm … of small artworks
If the History of Art was a big puzzle, there would be many pieces known and exhibited in museums, but just as many kept in private collections … and these are all to be studied and attributed! Each new discovery is a great thrill!In this case we report about a small piece, but only in […]
Tell me what blue you are and I’ll tell you when you were born (more or less)
The recent discovery of YInMn Blue, even if the pigment is extremely expensive (€ 148.52 for 40ml), is a joy for artists – always among the first to welcome the new discoveries-, but also for art scientists!In fact, the analysis of the type of pigment used has always been very useful for establishing the dating […]
CONSERVATION
Tale of two copies and one thief (a Cardinal)
When in 1507 the Raphael’s Baglioni Altarpiece was placed on the altar of San Matteo in the Church of San Francesco al Prato, in Perugia, no one would ever have imagined that about 100 years later Cardinal Scipione Borghese would have craved its possession so much to commission its theft. Robbery that, following the riot […]
That’s fair!
Even if the sector in general appears to be in a bit of a crisis, there are still quite a number of fairs organized on conservation, in Italy and in the world. In our country, this year there will be two within a few months. In the International Restoration Fair in Ferrara, (18th to 20th […]
Have we found the Lost Caravaggio?
In 2006 “Il Caravaggio perduto”, by J. Harr, was published. The volume describes the discovery of a painting by the Italian Master that had been lost for centuries. The protagonists are a great art historian and a PhD graduate, who discovers, in the inaccessible and forgotten archive of the Mattei family, in Recanati, the proof […]