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HIGHLIGHTS
1630 plague bacteria still around
The papers presented at Florence Heritech, a scientific conference on restoration and diagnostics of cultural heritage, have been published in the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering journal. A great opportunity for those who missed the event, to still browse through them. Art-Test contributed with a work that paves the way for the scientific […]
Tale of two copies and one thief (a Cardinal)
When in 1507 the Raphael’s Baglioni Altarpiece was placed on the altar of San Matteo in the Church of San Francesco al Prato, in Perugia, no one would ever have imagined that about 100 years later Cardinal Scipione Borghese would have craved its possession so much to commission its theft. Robbery that, following the riot […]
OPINIONS
Ugly?
Armine Harutyunyan was recently addressed as the “ugly” Gucci model and violently attacked.This was certainly not the judgement that Laura Battiferri received five centuries ago.The important nose did not frighten Bronzino when he wanted to portray her, and, evidently, she did not have a problem with it either.The profile brought her, a poetess, closer to […]
DISCOVERIES
60 years of dreams
Next 21st September, the BIAF, the Biennial International Antiques Fair of Florence, will open its doors in Palazzo Corsini. It will be sixty years after the first edition, noticeably in a very different context, compared with when one in whitch the Bellini brothers commenced the adventure. For two weeks the city will attract, also relying […]
The costs of not doing it!
The costs for a diagnostic campaign to authenticate a painting may seem high, but they are always a good investment.Without a painting having positively passed a series of tests to determine the compatibility of methods and materials with the period or the envisaged author, there is the risk of running into a fraud, which can […]
CONSERVATION
Have we found the Lost Caravaggio?
In 2006 “Il Caravaggio perduto”, by J. Harr, was published. The volume describes the discovery of a painting by the Italian Master that had been lost for centuries. The protagonists are a great art historian and a PhD graduate, who discovers, in the inaccessible and forgotten archive of the Mattei family, in Recanati, the proof […]
Leonardo: is it the real deal?
The “Salvator Mundi”, recently rediscovered and attributed to Leonardo, goes to auction at Christie’s, with an estimated value of about $ 100M. Will it be sold? Will it come back to Italy? With all the spotlights on this painting, someone started playing devil’s advocate, questioning the authorship, pointing to some alleged mistakes in the representation of the orb […]
Rape of the Sabines: a 4,10 m tall bozzetto!
It is not, and it was not, a common practice to make full size models for statues. But apparently Giambologna (Jean de Boulogne), at the time of this commission for Piazza della Signoria in Florence, was best known for “small” things, and he wanted to immediately silence who did not trust his abilities to work […]