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With his formidable knowledge of Baroque and Renaissance art, the New York gallery owner developed an enviable reputation for making rediscoveries.

For the Bellinis of Venice, painting was a family business. This extraordinary exhibition brings together 65 paintings by Giovanni, probably the most renowned of the clan – his father was Jacopo ...

Ferrara, which grew up around a ford over the River Po, became an intellectual and artistic centre that attracted the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries. Here, ...

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And yet they remained in close artistic dialogue throughout their lives, and after Mantegna’s death in 1506, Bellini completed the decorative cycle commissioned by the nobleman Francesco Cornaro, ...

With paintings so similar their origins have been disputed for centuries, these giants of Italian art are now being exhibited together for the first time at London’s National Gallery In a small room ...

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It has been in many ways a somewhat melancholy year for art exhibitions, here in Britain – or should I say: ‘here in London’? -since pretty well all the shows I will mention here took place in a ...