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A Stolen 16th Century Madonna Painting Is at the Center of Dispute Between Widow and Small Italian Museum
A 16th-century painting stolen from an Italian ... Madonna and child picture. A different Madonna and child picture failed to ...
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‘A New Look at Cimabue: At the Origins of Italian Painting’ Review: A Pivotal Pre-Renaissance Painter
A remarkable series of 13th-century depictions of the Madonna and Child, including three by ... and which paved the way for the Italian Renaissance, would have been unthinkable without Cimabue.
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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
Renaissance paintings, medieval archives, cloistered orchards—how one Italian scientist is uncovering ... She steers us to one more Madonna with Child, the center of an altarpiece painted ...