Avevamo il pittore più grande di tutti, secondo i contemporanei inglesi, ma dovette emigrare per vederselo riconoscere. Giovanni Battista Cipriani nacque nel 1727 a Firenze, dove si formò come pittore ed ebbe la migliore educazione possibile. Frequentò...
GianLorenzo Bernini, di padre sestese e madre napoletana, nato il 7 dicembre 1598 fu un artista straordinario, un genio del barocco. Fu un talento precoce, probabilmente anche grazie alla frequentazione della bottega del padre, che era un colto scultore di una certa...
Valorising works of art in their context to help reading the different historical-artistic stratifications The restoration of the splendid painted Cross kept in the Ghelli Museum of San Casciano Val di Pesa and attributed to the so-called “Master of San Lucchese” has...
The analyses on the Man of Sorrows inflame the debate on attribution One of the last paintings by the Florentine painter still in private hands will be sold at the “Master Paintings and Sculpture” auction, Sotheby’s New York, on January 27, 2022. A few weeks before...
A painting for 50 years believed to be a copy, it is thought to be a Van Dyck original Christopher Wright, a scholar known for having discovered numerous incorrectly attributed masterpieces, bought in 1976 a copy from Van Dyck of the “Portrait of Isabella Clara...
The analyses on the Man of Sorrows inflame the debate on attribution One of the last paintings by the Florentine painter still in private hands will be sold at the “Master Paintings and Sculpture” auction, Sotheby’s New York, on January 27, 2022. A few weeks before...
