Sudtirol weekend: fresh air and a totally different Italy
March 7, 2010 – 11:27 pm | Comments

On a whim, I accepted an invitation posted to the members of De Gustibus, a local enogastronomical society, for a “ski weekend” in the Dolomite mountains near Bressanone/ Brixen, in a small town called St. …

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Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA
February 18, 2010 – 3:08 pm | Comments
Michelangelo Anatomy as Architecture in Williamsburg, VA

Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture consists of drawings, archival pages, and engravings on loan from the finest collection of Michelangelo drawings and the ancestral home, the Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy.  The exhibition explores new …

Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius
October 26, 2009 – 1:13 pm | Comments
Atlanta: Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius

Name one sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci. Stuck? Me too. Leonardo is the great Renaissance man, the inventor, the draftsman whose wild lines imply motion and cannot be followed, the painter whose sfumato made mysterious …

Borghese paintings go to Japan; spark debate
October 14, 2009 – 9:02 am | Comments
Borghese paintings go to Japan; spark debate

Raphael’s “Woman with Unicorn” is one of 48 works from Rome’s Borghese Gallery on their way to Japan, where they will stay 6 months at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto and the Metropolitan Musem of Tokyo …

The “new” Michelangelo at the Met (NY)
June 29, 2009 – 9:14 am | Comments
The “new” Michelangelo at the Met (NY)

“Michelangelo’s first painting”, the Torment of Saint Anthony, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York June 16, 2009-September 7, 2009 in the European Paintings Galleries, 2nd floor. It is on …

A “new” Artemisia: found, restored, on tour
May 19, 2009 – 8:12 am | Comments
A “new” Artemisia: found, restored, on tour

Jane Fortune, Founder and Chair of the Florence Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, has been digging around the storage areas of the Pitti Palace looking for works by female artists. …

David takes 3 weeks off for holiday in Milan
May 15, 2009 – 8:11 am | Comments
David takes 3 weeks off for holiday in Milan

Donatello’s Bronze David is the highlight of Florence’s Bargello Museum.
Recently restored on-site in the museum so as not to remove it from view, it is now in Milan for a short visit on occasion of …

Etruscan Bronze Chimaera takes FLR-LAX; display at Getty Villa
May 14, 2009 – 1:34 pm | Comments
Etruscan Bronze Chimaera takes FLR-LAX; display at Getty Villa

July 16, 2009-February 8, 2010: The Getty Villa in Malibu CA is host to an exhibition that centers around an important loan from the Museo Archaeologico di Firenze, the famous Chimaera of Arezzo. The Etruscan bronze (4th c …

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