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January 10, 2020
CFA: Raubkunst at the Ringling: A Catalogue in Absentia

A researcher and writer is being sought to investigate the provenance of a quartet of quirkily shaped, sized, and framed 18th Century oil paintings associated with the work of Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682-1754).

May 26, 2017
On 26 May 1951 the Florentine Museum ‘Casa Buonarroti’ reopened its doors after a prolonged closure due to the Second World War and difficult post-war years.

January 14, 2017
The British Museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759.

December 25, 2016
A typical tough-as-nails Berliner was asked by a reporter why and how the city had returned to its normal semi-functional status this week, so soon after the 19 December terrorist attack on the Breitscheidplatz Christmas Market leaving 12 dead and nearly 50 injured.

June 3, 2016
Italian painter Bartolomeo Passarotti died on 3 June 1592 in Bologna.

September 11, 2015
Italian naturalist and antiquarian Ulisse Aldrovandi was born in Bologna on 11 September 1522.

September 14, 2014
Happy Birthday Renzo Piano !

June 3, 2014
From now through 14 September 2014, visitors to The Cleveland Museum of Art can watch conservators clean Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Andrew , one of the museum’s most prized paintings.

February 22, 2014
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) opens today in New York.

October 2, 2013
From Donatello to Lippi: Officina Pratese on view in Prato through 13 January 2014.