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Monna Lisa addio: La vera storia della Gioconda

by Carol King | Wed, 03/06/2013 - 10:25

The woman portrayed in the ‘Mona Lisa’ is not Lisa Gherardini according to an Italian historian.Going against the traditional view regarding the identity of…

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Two Mona Lisas? Painting In Switzerland Declared The Earlier Version

by Carol King | Tue, 03/05/2013 - 06:12

Scientific tests conducted by a Swiss art foundation reveal that a painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’ unveiled last year is possibly an early version of Leonard Da…

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Lost Caravaggio Discovered

by Carol King | Mon, 02/04/2013 - 06:31

The Italian newspaper ‘Il Messaggero’ reports that several experts have identified a Caravaggio painting of St John the Baptist believed to have been lost.St…

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Romanino and the Sistine Chapel of the Poor

by Carol King | Wed, 01/30/2013 - 11:56

Carol King admires a magnificent fresco cycle by the Brescian painter who foreshadowed Caravaggio.Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City…

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Location Of Mona Lisa Background Identified

by Carol King | Tue, 01/15/2013 - 09:48

Experts believe they have discovered the location of the landscape shown in the ‘Mona Lisa’.Leonardo Da Vinci painted valleys, mountains, hills, a river and a…

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Getty Museum Explores Art That Gave Rise To The Renaissance

by ITALY | Wed, 10/17/2012 - 03:49

The ‘Florence At The Dawn Of The Renaissance: Painting And Illumination, 1300-1350’ exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum  in Los Angeles opens on 13 November…

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Louvre snubs Italian Request to Return Mona Lisa to Florence

by Carol King | Wed, 10/10/2012 - 04:58

Paris’ Louvre museum has rebuffed a request to allow the Mona Lisa to be displayed in Italy next year.Italian campaigners have collected more than 150,000…

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Minister of Culture Nixes Search for Lost da Vinci Fresco

by Gabi Logan | Wed, 09/19/2012 - 04:58

After months of back and forth between Florence's mayor, the head of the city's museums, and the Italian Minister of Culture, the controversial search for…

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Mona Lisa... Pickpockets' Best Accomplice at the Louvre

by Gabi Logan | Tue, 08/14/2012 - 00:25

This summer, pickpocketing inside the Louvre Museum in Paris has reached epidemic proportions, with visitors to the "La Gioconda" (The Mona Lisa) as the most…

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“Americans in Florence” Exhibit Celebrates Italian-American Connections At Palazzo Strozzi

by Gabi Logan | Thu, 05/31/2012 - 04:40

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci, Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi Foundation celebrates the connections between Italy and…