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Exhibitions & Museums19/10/2026

Caravaggio at Palazzo Barberini: reconsidering works in dialogue

The Caravaggio 2025 exhibition at Palazzo Barberini provides a starting point for considering the value of bringing works together.

Insights19/10/2026

Solo or group exhibition: two ways to present artistic research

A solo exhibition follows one artist’s development through works that reveal themes, changes and expressive choices.

Insights19/10/2026

Still life: learning to look at objects

Flowers, fruit, glass and textiles can become an entire pictorial experience. In still life, objects take centre stage through their arrangement, the…

Insights19/10/2026

Drawing: entering the artist’s thinking

A drawing can preserve the speed of an intuition, an attempt to resolve a figure or the precision of a completed design.

Insights19/10/2026

Attributed to and workshop of: terms to read carefully

In an exhibition or auction catalogue, the wording accompanying an artist’s name conveys essential information.

Insights19/10/2026

Provenance: the history that accompanies a work

Provenance reconstructs a work’s history of ownership. Evidence can come from inventories, family documents, auction catalogues, photographs and archival records.

Insights19/10/2026

The catalogue: what remains when an exhibition ends

When an exhibition ends, the works return to their homes and the installation is dismantled. The catalogue preserves an essential part of…

Insights19/10/2026

How an exhibition begins: an idea before the walls

An exhibition begins long before installation. It starts with a question: what story do we want to tell through the works?

Insights06/04/2025

Salvator Mundi: a proposed attribution to Guercino

The Salvator Mundi proposed as a Guercino by Antonello Di Pinto: stylistic comparison and documentation supporting an attribution hypothesis.

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