Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel, by Sandro Botticelli, was last offered at auction at Christieโs London in December 1982 with the titleย Portrait of Giovanni de Pierfrancesco deโ Mediciย and it was sold to the New York real estate magnate Sheldon Solow for a...
After 2020, the unfortunate year dedicated to Raphael on the 500th anniversary of his death,ย we are ready to embrace 2021 which in Italy, and around the world, will be the year of Danteโs celebrations, seven hundred years after the death of the great poet. It will be...
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 Danteโs celebrations, seven hundred years after the death of the great poet. It...
We also love the virtual tours, the lessons, the interviews, the insights that museums and cultural institutions are publishing online. But we would like to dispel a doubt. These videos are produced in an attempt to keep the cultural world visible. Many videos are...
โIn the past century, and at the beginning of this one, dealing with Botticelli would have seemed madnessโ, wrote Symonds, a great scholar, specialist of the Italian Renaissance, in 1877. And in 1895, Bernard Shaw followed, among others: โToday ten acres of Carracci,...
With a crescendo reminiscent of Zimmerโs musical pieces, in recent years we have increasingly heard, read and defined the word: sustainability. In the beginning it seemed to be almost something elitarian but it turned out to be quite the opposite. So what does...
