A recent and particularly thorough restoration has brought back to life the splendour of Santa Giustina’s altarpiece by Romanino, which with Giotto’s crucifix represents one of the most famous and important masterpieces in the Pinacotheca of the Civic Museums of Padua. The restoration project was immediately favoured by its supporters: the Savings Bank Foundation of Padua and Rovigo, the non-profit Association “Amici dei Musei e Monumenti” (“Museum and Monument Friends”) of Padua and Province, the “Young People’s sector” of the “Amici dei Musei e dei Monumenti” of Padua and Province, The Consortium Industrial Area and Fluviatile Port of Padua and the Preservation and Restoration Centre “La Venaria Reale” of Venaria Reale (Turin).

Florence has been for centuries the propelling centre of art, a city anciently inhabited by important patrons of art, enlightened men and great artists, now an organized and fascinating site for anyone who wishes to admire its ancient and present splendour.
Just the other day in Piazza del Duomo in Florence a fifteenth-century main door opened up to receive tourists with a new inviting proposal. Indeed, the regional capital of Tuscany has inaugurated the Art and Culture Opa-Centre, a centre characterized by high technological performances, that will lead visitors and travellers through a multimedia journey, encouraging them to find out and appreciate even more the monuments of the beautiful Florence, in particular the cathedral, the baptistery and the bell-tower.

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“Photographs”,  held on 17th May 2008 by Phillips de Pury & Co. London auction house, realized takings equal to 1,325,835 pounds. An interesting sale offering some of the most important names of historical and contemporary photography: Man Ray, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Irving Penn, but also Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle, Cindy Sherman and Andres Serrano.