Italian art

On May 29th, 1606 during a brawl in Piazza Navona, Caravaggio (1571-1610) murdered the pimp from Terni, Ranuccio Tomassoni, who had VIP clients: nobles, notaries, cardinals.  The painter was sentenced to death.  To avoid papal justice, this hot-headed and often...

After a successful debut last year, the IDEA Boston festival is returning packed with an expanded lineup of more than 25 panels, 60 guest speakers from academia to award-winning authors, poets, artists, social and political analysts, actors, musicians, a photo...

In spite of Vasari’s admiration and Verrocchio’s importance as a teacher, up-to-now there has never been an exhibition devoted to him. The event in the Palazzo Strozzi and the Museo Bargello aims to bring valuable insight into the early influence...

In addition to his famous Visitation, exhibition highlights include the Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap and the Portrait (c.1530) of a Halberdier (only at the Getty) for, besides his religious subjects, Pontormo was a much-admired portraitist...

One half of the exhibition concerns how foreigners, particularly the English and Americans, collected Italian art in the late 19th – early 20th century; the other is a display of highlights from the extensive polymathic art collection of American diplomat...

Arte Povera Maestro Michelangelo Pistoletto re-enacts his world-renowned performance "Walking Sculpture" by rolling a newspaper-wrapped sphere across the streets of Cold Spring, as a salute to the Hudson Valley, home to Magazzino Italian Art

Op-Art has come back to New York with a collective exhibition at the GR Gallery. On view, innovative artists from different generations and different parts of Europe and America: Felipe Pantone, Gilbert Hsiao, Nadia Costantini and Sandi Renko.

"Artemisia Gentileschi and Her Times:" an exhibition celebrating the unrecognised success of Artemisia Gentileschi, a female artist who was undervalued in her time, but managed to achieve recognition in the male-dominated art world of the post-Renaissance era.

On loan from the Pinacoteca di Brera, "Dying Cleopatra" by Italian baroque painter, Guido Cagnacci is on view at the Italian Cultural Institute through January 19, 2017. Still best known primarily by a small circle of curators, collectors and connoisseurs,...

Born in Jesi, studied at the Academy in Carrara, restoration experience at the Louvre, then nine years in China. Today Dionisio Cimarelli lives in New York, teaches at the New York Academy of Arts, and is planning a retrospective. Art...