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Palazzo Cini has reopened its doors, showcasing Vittorio Cini's collection of Tuscan and Ferrarese paintings in the building that was once his Venetian home. Luca Massimo Barbero, director of the [...]

To paint after Titian is to paint in his shadow. That, at least, was the experience of Lucian Freud, who reworked entire passages of an unfinished portrait after seeing the [...]

As objects, works of the visual arts not only must survive, they also need to be seen, touched, entered into, and, in every respect, experienced in their physical dimension. The [...]

It is a truth almost universally suppressed that most art historians whose first language is English cannot read German. They often fool themselves that they can muddle through, but the [...]

One of the quirky features of the absolutely outstanding 2003 crop of exhibitions has been the way that a number of them--like the animals entering the Ark--have paired themselves off [...]

After an apprenticeship in Beccafumi's Sienese studio, from 1551 onwards, Marco Pino spent three decades as one of the leading exponents of the 'maniera moderna' in painting in Naples. This [...]

The cycle of canvases that once adorned Alfonso II d'Este's Camerino d Alabastro in the Castello at Ferrara is universally acknowledged to have been one of the greatest achievements of [...]

Immediately after World War II the Duke of Sutherland placed a superlative group of paintings on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland. Among these were a number of Titians, [...]

This year, the two museum acquisitions that have attracted the most publicity have also coincidentally shared the peculiar distinction of not yet having reached the institutions in pursuit of them. [...]

The Museo Civico in Bassana del Grappa, Italy has exhibited the art works of the artist known as Jacopo Bassano. Experts believed Basanno was born around the year 1510 and the show was a quicentennial celebration that covered most of his long career. Insights on the exhibited paintings are also given.