Exploring Italian Renaissance art
The artists, their works, and the world that shaped them.
01/10/2008 – Treasures from the Vatican Museums will soon be coming to Florida, Ohio, and Minnesota in 2008. The exhibition is called “Vatican Splendors from St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican Museums…
FLORENCE, Italy, 7/31/2007 – Two of the Italian Renaissance’s most prominent Neoplatonist philosophers have been exhumed to solve a centuries old murder mystery. Members of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florentine circle, Pico…
MELBOURNE, Australia – 08/03/2007 – A Van Gogh painting now in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne has been found to be a fake! The Van Gogh…
Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s bronze crucifixion sculpture known as Corpus has found a new home. Long thought to be lost, Bernini’s masterpiece was donated in January 2007 to Maggie…
ROME – 04/24/2007 – An Italian tribunal court ruling on Monday determined that the famous Venus of Cyrene is not part of Italy’s cultural heritage and should therefore be returned to…
ATHENS – 02/19/2007 – There is exciting news in Athens this week. Scholars and archaeologists have been looking for the remains of the ancient Greek theater of Acharnae for two hundred…
NORWAY – 01/08/2007 – On January 8, 2007 it was announced that Danish archaeologists found two Viking boat burials from about 800 A.D. with their treasures intact. Burials in boats such…
The Derveni Text papyrus scroll, touted as being the oldest European book in the Western tradition and “the most significant new evidence about ancient Greek philosophy and religion since the Renaissance”…
11/16/2006 – Initially reported in October to be the largest Aztec idol ever found, new information by archaeologists suggests that the monolith uncovered in the heart of Mexico City may actually…
As it turns out, the 11 foot long stone slab, an Aztec artifact found on 10/04/2006 with the much publicized Aztec altar may actually be of greater historical significance than the…
