A previously unseen Caravaggio portrait was unveiled in Rome on Friday at Palazzo Barberini, where it will be displayed until 23 February. The portrait, depicting Monsignor Maffeo Barberini, is the centrepiece of the exhibition Caravaggio: The Portrait Unveiled.
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Italian police have dismantled a major European criminal network responsible for the forgery and selling of artworks by renowned modern artists. They recovered more than 2,100 forged pieces attributed to artists including Banksy, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso.
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Former culture undersecretary and noted art critic Vittorio Sgarbi faces a potential trial. It follows an investigation into a painting alleged to have been stolen, then altered to conceal its origins, as reported by il Fatto Quotidiano.
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Umberto Boccioni, one of the most influential artists of the early 20th century, was born on 20th October 1882. He was a driving force behind the Futurist movement.
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An alleged Pablo Picasso painting, discovered in a villa on the island of Capri 50 years ago, has now been confirmed as an authentic work, according to a report by Il Giorno on Monday.
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Lodovico Cardi, better known as Cigoli (1559-1613), is one of Italy’s remarkable yet often overlooked figures from the late Renaissance. Born in the Tuscan town of San Miniato on 21st September 1559, he excelled not only as a painter but also as an architect.
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Giacomo Balla, born on 17th July 1871, in Turin, was a seminal figure in the development of Italian Futurism, an artistic and social movement that emphasised speed, technology, youth, and the power of modernity.
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Artemisia Gentileschi, born on 8th July 1593 in Rome, is one of the most accomplished and influential painters of the Baroque period. She painted scenes from the Bible with dramatic realism, just as Caravaggio had. Her powerful works often show strong and suffering women from myths, allegories, and the Bible.
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Giorgio Vasari, an Italian painter, architect, and writer, died on 27th June 1574. He is celebrated not just for his artistic contributions but for his monumental role in documenting the Renaissance.
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Giovanni Paolo Panini, born in Piacenza on 17 June 1691, is the foremost painter of Roman topography of the 18th century. He was one of the founding figures of the vedutista tradition — the genre of Italian view painting that would go on to shape how Europe imagined and remembered the ancient world.
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