While debates raged over whether artificial intelligence could replace connoisseurs and diagnosticians in the authentication of artworks, we didnโt see this coming. But AI has just entered the field of art restoration. Just a few days ago, Nature published an article...
Taxation rarely sparks applauseโbut in Italy, it just did. A rare wave of enthusiasm greeted the Italian Culture Ministerโs recent announcement: a new reduced VAT rate from former 22% to 5% on cultural goods, the lowest in the European Union, responding to the request...
A documentary in cinemas and on TV, featuring Art-Test Two emigrants who found success far from home: Berenson and Lotto, who, in turn, brought success to one another. Because, of course, there are trends in art tooโand influencers have always existed. Bernard...
Did you know that X-rays imaging is the oldest physical analysis technique used in art?Itโs been 130 years since it was first applied, and itโs become so established that the phrase โX-ray scannedโ has even entered everyday language โ meaning something has been...
A rare painting recently went to auction in Florence:”Half-length, with her head resting in her hands and her elbow on a red damask cushion, the beautiful and melancholic Cleopatra holds the venomous asp that threatens her exposed breast with a fatal bite.โ...
