The art magazine for

Italian gold-ground panel paintings

from c. 1250–1430

Independent magazine · Continuously updated since 2026

ISSN 3055-3717 · Catalogued in German Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB) and the German National Library (DNB)

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Four Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) works stolen from Museum in Sicily Thieves broke into the Museo Regionale di Messina (MuMe) in Sicily on the night of August 15–16, 2026, while the city was distracted by Ferragosto and the "
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The 📖 book that tells us how Italian gold ground works were made Il Libro dell’Arte - Around 1400 a Tuscan painter of no great fame wrote down everything he knew. Il Libro dell'Arte is the closest we can get to standing in a Trecento workshop
For most of their existence, gold-ground panels were not admired. They were tolerated, moved, cut down, painted over — or bought specifically as proof of how bad art had once been. In 1857 the National Gallery in London acquired twenty-two ear
Exhibition catalogue (in Italian): Giotto e San Francesco - Una rivoluzione nell’Umbria del Trecento (Giotto and Saint Francis – A Revolution in 14th-Century Umbria) Perugia, National Gallery of Umbria from 14 March to 14 June 2026 &quot

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