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As Italy’s museums reopen, visitors flock for last chance to see reunited Bologna masterpiece broken up 300 years ago
Last week of once in a lifetime exhibition displaying the Griffoni Polyptych—a 16-piece panel painting dating from 1472—at Bologna’s Palazzo Fava
ReviewBooks
Master of the putti: instructive book explores Albrecht Dürer's obsession with the little cherubs
Survey including 91 illustrations shows how the artist used the winged gods prolifically in his work
NewsVenice Biennale
New Venice Biennale show reveals fraught episodes in its 125-year history
Interdisciplinary display in the Giardini will look at how the international exhibitions “crossed paths with history”
ReviewBooks
More than the meets the (shifty) eye: book looks at the life of 16th-century polymath Jacopo Strada
Despite the dodgy gaze that Titian attributed to him in his famous portrait, this double volume demonstrates the Italian's important role in cultural history
Newscoronavirus
Magazzino Italian Art Foundation commissions eight Italian artists to produce new work in response to coronavirus
The New York-based foundation says there is an "absolute need to support artists" as the Covid-19 pandemic shutters exhibitions around the world
ArchiveExhibitions
Sebastiano and his mentor Michelangelo arrive in London
The National Gallery explores the highs and lows of this prolific partnership
ArchiveBooks
Antonio II Badile: An Italian Renaissance drawing collector and his family
Casting light on an overlooked but fascinating aspect of the Renaissance
ArchiveArt market reports
Records tumble for post-war Italian artists
The colour white proves particularly popular as Sotheby’s expert heralds “a new dawn for Italian art”
ArchiveForgeries
Italian pop art forgery scandal widens as six more works are now being sought
Public prosecutor Giuseppe Ferrando pursues fakes tied to JZ Art gallery
ArchiveCaravaggio
Technology reveals Caravaggio self-portrait
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection
ArchiveArcangelo Sassolino
Arcangelo Sassolino: Artists at Art Basel Miami Beach 2007
Visitors, beware of the creepy crawlies
ArchiveEstorick Collection
For sale: £8m De Chirico from private museum
A collector in the US is buying the painting from the Estorick Collection
ArchiveAuctions
Best results ever for Italian art at auction
An unnamed East European collector bought several works at both Sotheby’s and Christie’s
ArchiveRome
A growing number of young collectors are now buying contemporary art in Rome
Has the Eternal City overtaken Milan and Turin?
ArchiveLauder Initiative
Restoration of Italian works sponsored by makeup giant
Estée Lauder makeover for Santa Cecilia
ArchiveTate Modern
Italian art at Tate Modern: Starting from zero
The Tate and the Walker Art Center collaborate to show Arte Povera 1962 to 1972, from five years before the movement was defined by its impresario, Germano Celant
ArchiveRestoration
Less is more with Lauder restoration
Several works subject to restoration paid for by Estée Lauder
ArchiveGuido Reni
Books: Guido Reni, loved by the Victorians, despised by modernists and purists
Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay
ArchiveArt market
What's on at the Italian contemporary galleries: March 1998
Anish Kapoor and Mayan motifs
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
The Crowley Colosso Leonardo Prize
Entries open for the Accademia Italiana's annual award
ArchiveBooks
Dealers, collectors and Christie’s to fund Chatsworth book
New book will cover the 1,000 Italian drawings in the Chatsworth collection
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Leonardo prize for dealer sleuths
The Accademia Italiana announces award in conjunction with fair
ArchiveArt theft
Pork-trading, Bob-Marley fan caught red-handed with stolen Italian masterpieces
The reluctant collector: “The ugliest things I ever did see....only good for chasing away ghosts”