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The best art and architecture of 2023

Our critics’ high points include a ceramic wedding cake you can climb inside to Alice Neel’s fearless portraits, plus a new children’s V&A and a school with lumpy yellow walls

The Guardian - UK

Frans Hals review – boring, lifeless portraits with flamboyant facial hair

Comprehensive collection of the 17th-century painter’s work aims to place him alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, but his technically brilliant paintings are weirdly soulless

The Guardian - UK

‘Astonishing, luminous beauty’: readers’ cultural highlights in Europe

The secrets to ancient Greek innovations, art in its rightful place, and gorgeous statues and views from Dublin to Albania

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Saint Francis of Assisi at the National Gallery review – a remarkable exhibition about a remarkable man

An excellent exploration of representations of the saint by artists from Caravaggio to Antony Gormley

Evening Standard

Saint Francis of Assisi review – did you know the bird-loving roamer was a Marvel superhero?

From Caravaggio’s most explicitly gay painting to the action-packed pages of a superhero comic, this exhibition of art inspired by the roving radical is enrapturing

The Guardian - UK

Princess evicted from £400M villa with Caravaggio mural after row with stepchildren

Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi was seen piling her four frise dogs into a taxi on Thursday following the eviction, and saying: "I feel like I'm in a surreal movie"

Daily Mirror

US-born princess evicted from Rome villa famed for Caravaggio fresco

A U.S.-born princess was evicted on Thursday from a Roman villa featuring the only known fresco by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio, and denounced her ousting as a travesty of justice.

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Texas-born princess evicted from historic Rome villa valued at £400m

The property contains the the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio

The Independent UK

Texan princess evicted from Rome villa, Caravaggio stays

A Texas-born princess has been evicted from a historic villa in Rome containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio

The Independent UK

US-born ‘princess’ evicted from Rome villa housing Caravaggio fresco

Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi escorted from 16th-century home amid long-running inheritance dispute

The Guardian - UK

Texas-born princess facing imminent eviction from Rome villa

A Texas-born princess is facing a court-ordered eviction from a Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio

The Independent UK

In a Roman villa at the center of a nasty inheritance dispute, a Caravaggio masterpiece is hidden from the public

I teach Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, so when I was visiting Rome in January 2023, how could I not try to see a notorious villa that was up for sale and involved in a nasty inheritance dispute?

The Conversation

US-born princess vows to stay in Rome villa despite eviction order

Saga continues over property housing Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco as fifth auction fails to attract bids

The Guardian - UK

Princess in villa with unique Caravaggio faces eviction

A U.S.-born princess who lives in a Roman villa featuring the world's only known mural by Italian baroque artist Caravaggio said on Friday she faced eviction from the unique property at the centre of a raging inheritance battle.

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Beyond Movietown: Derek Jarman’s lost ‘novel’ echoes through his oeuvre

Published for the first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping, chimes with many of the obsessions the director carried through his films

Radio France Internationale

Family feud casts shadow over future of Roman villa with Caravaggio mural

A 16th century villa in Rome with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio has failed to attract a buyer despite four court-ordered auctions in less than a year.

The Guardian - UK

Yomi Ṣode: ‘The last thing I want to be is a preacher’

The poet and performer on his debut poetry collection, drawing on Caravaggio and the concept of ‘manorism’

The Guardian - US

From Nighthawks to Tangerine: Guardian writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movies

For the release of Billy Eichner’s groundbreaking studio gay rom-com Bros, Guardian writers discuss their best LGBTQ+ movies

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Erotic, illegal and enough to make Caravaggio swoon: Very Private? and Linder review

Duncan Grant’s intensely sexual drawings, created when homosexuality was against the law, appear with more candid responses from contemporary artists and some fierce work from Linder

The Guardian - UK

If looks could kill: how Medusa became a potent political meme

Medusa has become the default allegory for a hated woman in the public eye, but those who fear her lethal gaze would do well to revisit the myth

The Guardian - UK

Werner Herzog: ‘I was never, contrary to rumours, a hazard-seeking, crazy stuntman’

The German director, famed for making films about people at the fringes of society, has written a novel about another one: a Japanese soldier who carried on fighting the second world war for 29 years after it ended

The Guardian - UK

Rome villa with Caravaggio’s only ceiling fresco fails to sell again

Sprawling Villa Aurora – at centre of legal battle – attracts no bidders for second time at cut-price €377m

The Hindu

A painter, a writer and a refugee walk into a book …

When in Florence for the biennale where my wife’s sculptures were being shown, we had a day to ourselves. Should we visit the Venice biennale and its supposedly cutting-edge modern art, or Rome, for t

The Guardian - UK

Auction of Roman villa with Caravaggio mural fails to attract any bids

€471m price tag of villa containing only ceiling mural ever painted by Italian master to be reduced by 20%

The Independent UK

Once, twice, sold? Rome villa with Caravaggio up for auction

A Rome villa containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is set to go on a court-ordered auction block

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