500 years of Italian drawings from the Princeton University Museum
On View February 16 – June 23, 2024. Benton Museum of Art Pomona College, 120 W. Bonita Avenue, Claremont, CA. The Princeton University Art Museum’s collection of more than one thousand Italian drawings is renowned for its quality, scope, and scholarly importance. This exhibition showcases ninety-five rarely seen works from the late fifteenth to ea...
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A New Exhibit at The Ringling Will Explore a Rare Italian Portrait
A new exhibit is coming to The Ringling this October: Guercino’s Friar with a Gold Earring: Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Painter and Art Dealer, an international loan exhibition exploring a rare portrait of Fra Bonaventura Bisi by the Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, also known as Guercino. The Ringling acquired the portrait in 2015. T...
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Italy’s €471 million villa with Caravaggio mural fails to sell at auction
The sale of a Roman villa with the world's only Caravaggio ceiling painting, which was put on the market valued at €471 million, has been rescheduled with a new reduced price after a court-ordered auction on Tuesday failed to attract a single bid. The base asking price for the Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, whose opening bid had been set at...
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Italian art: Guercino and the fresco museum
Cento is a small town in Emilia Romagna, in the center of the Po Valley surrounded by fields cultivated as far as the eye can see and a wise vocation on the part of its citizens on how to cultivate them and trade them. This was also the case at the end of the sixteenth century when, at the beginning of 1591, Giovan Francesco Barbieri, who would bec...
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