Seven Acts of Mercy by Caravaggio: a superb experience Caravaggio escapes from Rome on 28 May, with the accusation of having killed Ranuccio Tommasoni and arrives on 6 October 1606 in Naples, where he immediately receives prestigious commissions, including the...
Ligozzi: wonders of an expanding world In 1577, Ligozzi was called to Florence by Francesco I Medici, a despotic Grand Duke with refined tastes, son-in-law of Ferdinand I of Habsburg, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In Florence, despite the Renaissance cycle being...
El Greco: new attribution at the Uffizi When the painting “St. John the Evangelist and St. Francis of Assisi” entered the Uffizi collection as part of a donation, it was assumed to be a copy executed by the workshop or by disciples of El Greco. Indeed only a few...
Giambologna’s Rape of the Sabines The diagnostics performed on the ‘Ratto delle Sabine’ by Giambologna, at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, required many skills, since, among others, Xray, UltraSound and Geo-Radar methodologies were employed (with the...
Caravaggio: a copy? Multilayer shows it’s original! The painting, which is owned by a private collector, was originally thought to be a copy of Caravaggio’s St. Jerome Writing (composed between 1607 and 1608), which is in the Oratory of St. John’s Co-Cathedral...
