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 painting depicting the โSeven Works of Mercyโ for the church...
n 1577,ย Ligozziย was called toย Florenceย byย Francesco I Medici, a despotic Grand Duke with refined tastes, son-in-law ofย Ferdinand I of Habsburg,ย emperorย of theย Holy Roman Empire. In Florence, despite theย Renaissance cycleย being exhausted, there was still a dense...
When the painting โSt. John the Evangelist and St. Francis of Assisiโ entered the Uffizi collection as part of a donation, ย it was assumed to be a copy executed by the workshop or by disciples of El Greco. Indeed only a few people had seen it before and scholars had...
The diagnostics performed on the โRatto delle Sabineโ by Giambologna, at the Galleria dellโAccademia, in Florence, requiredย many skills, since, among others, Xray, UltraSound and Geo-Radar methodologies were employed (with the help of S.T. Art-Test). The results led...
The painting, which is owned by a private collector, was originally thought to be a copy of Caravaggioโs St. Jerome Writing (composed between 1607 and 1608), which is in the Oratory of St. Johnโs Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. Prof. Keith Sciberras of the University...
