Reopen the collection of Pompeian Painting the National Archaeological Museum of Naples

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

And 'scheduled for April 29 reopening of the Frescoes Collection of National Archaeological Museum of Naples. After more than ten years of closure for renovation and relocation of exhibition space, museum visitors will be able to return to Naples to admire the frescoes found in the cities destroyed by Vesuvius ...

The colors of Augustus. Polychromy of ancient monuments

Friday, March 6th, 2009

An international meeting dedicated to the beautiful colors of ancient monuments and, in particular, the Ara Pacis will be held Wednesday, March 11 at the Auditorium of the Museum of Ara Pacis. During the conference entitled "The colors of Augustus. Polychromy of ancient monuments", organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Communication and the Superintendent of ...

The woman, the landscape and the impression. Paintings of the Civic Museum of Pavia in the nineteenth and twentieth century

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

It will conclude March 29, 2009 the exhibition "The woman, the landscape and feel" hosted in the Palazzo Reale in Caserta, in which are paintings of the Civic Museum of Pavia made between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. More than eighty works that reproduce the full sense of the words set to ...

Piero Angela discovered a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The news about Leonardo da Vinci in recent weeks after another. The last concerns the good television popularizer Piero Angela, who claims to have discovered an original drawing of the great Tuscan genius.

Portrait of Leonardo '600 discovered in Basilicata

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

In Basilicata, in the small town of Acerenza has been discovered that seems to reproduce a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, it is an oil on panel 60 x 44 cm. The exceptional discovery is due to a scholar of medieval history Barbatelli Nicholas, to whom we owe the credit for having found ...