Giuseppe Adani
Membro dell’Accademia Clementina, monografista del Correggio.
The Madonna of Albinea, Correggio's masterpiece in the heart of the Italian Renaissance
The Madonna of Albinea, painted by Correggio in 1519, stands as a singular compositional and executive pivot at a temporal juncture of the height of the Italian Renaissance; that artistic phenomenon that had already reached the "great manner" and tha...Read more...
A happy time for Guercino, time for exhibitions and rediscoveries
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna offers citizens and international culture an exhibition on Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666). A review toward an anthology of works that place the master at the center of seventeenth-century European painting ...Read more...
The great reflection: The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece, David Ekserdjian's magnum opus
In 2021, the Art Newspaper chose as its book of the year David Ekserdjian's monumental work The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: an endeavor that we could call "the great reflection" on the greatest pictorial phenomenon of the Italian Renaissance, nam...Read more...
Achille Funi. Master of the twentieth century between history and myth
Achille Funi was a pillar of 20th-century Italian artistic expression, and his city is fittingly preparing a solemn exhibition of him at the Palazzo dei Diamanti for October. The painter was born in Ferrara in 1890 and died in Appiano Gentile (Como) ...Read more...
A distant ray of Venice. The Portal of the Princes' Palace in Correggio
It stands like a marble flower or a snow-white butterfly on the compact red-hot fabric of the ferraiolo brick that clamps the elevation of the comital dwelling erected on the golden principle of the 16th century to welcome sovereigns and most excelle...Read more...
Arrigo Minerbi Sculptor. Between Ferrara and the Italian culture of the early twentieth century.
From Saturday, July 8, the cool noble halls of Ferrara's Castello Estense welcome visitors to the superb exhibition dedicated to Arrigo Minerbi (Ferrara, 1881 - Padua, 1960), a distinguished prince of early 20th-century Italian sculpture and a person...Read more...
The most apt knight and baron. Nicolò da Correggio master of delights in Schifanoia.
While the magnificent exhibition Rinascimento a Ferrara. Ercole de' Roberti and Lorenzo Costa - and there shine masterpieces of the highest rank in the context of the golden age of Italian humanism - it will not be inappropriate to grasp the personal...Read more...
The Renaissance in Ferrara. A curious invitation
On Feb. 18 at the Palazzo dei Diamanti, the desired exhibition on the "Renaissance in Ferrara" will happily open, where the figurative arts - maximally the pictorial arts of the great masters Lorenzo Costa and Ercole de' Roberti - will compose a worl...Read more...
In the Spirit of Correggio. The annual exhibition of the Free Engravers Association.
In the world of art contemporary to us there is a prestigious entity that stands as a model of extreme seriousness and guarantee towards collectors and amateurs. It is the ALI (Associazione Liberi Incisori) which has been working for several decades ...Read more...
Raphael and Julius II: a magnificent exhibition of international interest, a new Bologna
The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna in its rich patrimony holds the historical-artistic axis of the City's pulse, and lately it has opened up to luminous initiatives of extraordinary vitality in connection with important anniversaries or events capab...Read more...
Magdalene, mother of the spreading of Christ's word: Correggio's Day
Very noble exhibition the one in Forli, at the cloisters of San Domenico, where in each of the past years we have been able to admire reviews always of high value and exceptional organizational effort. This year the subject is still of a sing...Read more...
Correggio's Ecce Homo. A brief paschal, historical-theological study.
Probably between 1526 and 1527 in the context of the magnificent production of his celebrated altarpieces Antonio da Correggio, who was living permanently in Parma where he was directing the difficult wall renovations of the dome of the ca...Read more...
Giacomo De Maria, master of sculpture in Bologna. A splendid study by Antonella Mampieri
Did Antonio Canova have a "traveling companion" who was such by affection and artistic consonance? The answer must glide to Bologna, the city that gave him as a young man the great teaching of naturalness and empites of life, and which then g...Read more...
Canova in Bologna. A regenerating exhibition at the Alma Mater's art venue.
A flight! A glittering flight accomplished by a wise bee responding to the ideal figure of an affable and cultured princess as is Maria Luisa Pacelli, director of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. An exploration over a phenomenon that beco...Read more...
Exemplum Virtutis. The City of Cento welcomes a masterpiece by Paolo Antonio Barbieri, brother of Guercino
A blossoming of rebirth appears in that secularly pulsating place of creativity and work that is the area of Cento, privileged cradle of art and the manufacturing heart between Ferrara and Bologna, which is now emerging with renewed vigor fro...Read more...
The Brera Nativity. A thoughtful painting by Correggio
Astonishment always accompanies those who wish to delve into the proposals that Correggio gradually poses to us in the youthful progress of his career, where the elements of surprise blossom and impose the extraordinary breadth of...Read more...
That air of heads, made in heaven. Correggio's santAgata and sisters
First of all, we must talk about Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and remember his dual vocation. He was an authentic painter, a relative of the much older Signorelli, a full-time worker, a quick and tireless draughtsman, a steady and mathematical eye in...Read more...
Between Leonardo and Correggio. A lofty transit of inspirations and doings.
In Storia dell'Arte in Parma (2020) Maddalena Spagnolo elegantly and effectively sketches a chapter, Nel segno di Leonardo (In the Sign of Leonardo), where she finds the afflatuses of Vinci's genius spilling over into the Po Valley lands and ...Read more...
Night song of an Inspector wandering through the air. A ministry is without an army
The title is a heroicomic paraphrase of a well-known poem by Leopardi. The song is nocturnal because the hours of silence are those of memory, of distant contemplation of a lived reality that remains as a vanished pattern. The Honorary Inspecto...Read more...
Marvelous Parma in an outstanding volume of art
As neve al sol si disigilla sings Dante at the climax of his Paradise: so at the end of this perilous winter a blazing sun rises over Parma to sprinkle the city's entire life, its awareness of being an incomparable place for art o...Read more...
Correggio's angels
Among the countless commentators on Correggio, I like to choose the sincere definition given by Édouard Pommier in a personal autograph letter to me in August 2006, where he considers him "an immense artist." Such a judgment coming from the t...Read more...
Correggio: the legacy of the masters and the restlessness of supreme space
Dum venĕris was the constant call of a medieval responsory asking God for light: "when you come ... when you come and judge righteously, then you will give us light." It was an invocation of expectation. In this time stricken by crisi...Read more...
From Raphael to Adam Braun. Smiling and cogitating between exhortations and corrections
The Covid break allows for a few digressions such as the one that follows here, and of which the reader will forgive me. This year's dazzling Raffello exhibition, luminously curated by my friend Marzia Faietti, not only gave me the opportunity ...Read more...
Luigi Magnani in his mansion. The exhibition at the Villa of Masterpieces
A triumph: an orchestral, symphonic, solemn, exhilarating triumph, this one by Luigi Magnani, who continues to live in the poetic and suavest world of his villa in Mamiano, one of the unspeakable places for envelopment of thought and idyllic quiet of...Read more...
From grade to gradulo: Girolamo and Correggio reunited. The "new" Madonna of the basket
The over-title of the present essay is taken from a playful poem by Arrigo Boito and takes us back to the steps of art criticism that proceeds slowly and wisely on new discoveries, even on minor appearances, to illuminate connections and knowledg...Read more...
Nanni, by Antonio di Banco Falco. Sculptor Prince of the Renaissance
Why Nanni? Because without him the dawn of the Renaissance would lack a most splendid light. Because it is necessary to rebalance the knowledge of the true roots of the Renaissance itself. Because next year will run the sixth centenary of his death a...Read more...
Gianfranco Passoni. Painter of sublimated tradition and modernity.
A surprise! A resounding surprise in Modena, where Gianfranco Passoni, the city's legendary master, the great representative of the pictorial tradition of the ducal capital who now returns after one of his typical, long periods of meditation and ...Read more...
Pater Padus. On the great river a sunshine of art in San Benedetto Po: the Monastery, the Refectory, the Basilica, the Museum
Solemn still flows the Pater Padus, lying in its great Emilia-Lombard basin. In the long journey for centuries it has reclaimed two venerable citadels of high prayer and untiring labor among the fields. To the song of the monk Guido, raised with hi...Read more...
Correggio's Nights. The surprising discovery of an Allegrian masterpiece.
We may ask: do the Nights of Correggio have anything in common with The Nights of Cabiria? Do not gasp folks! Fellini's heroine (who conveys so much of her authorship) is vividly imbued with a most human joy, a radiant expression of effervescent ...Read more...
The vault of the Borgo Fire Room. An important historical note
The year of Raphael, which began amid the obvious epidemic difficulties, will nevertheless be dense with studies, re-evaluations, and historical-critical expansions that have already begun to highlight the effects due to the Roman presence of the gre...Read more...
Alfonso Lombardi, sculptor, on display in Bologna
Museums reopen, and silent Exhibitions can rise from the dormancy of cloistered time. The National Gallery of Bologna reopens, and here a fervid review, in itself very rich in multiple motives, can rattle for dignity and conclamation in the well-unde...Read more...
Padua's precious exhibition at the Diocesan Museum: "In Our Image. terracotta sculpture of the Renaissance from Donatello to Riccio"
The virus, which has the superb name of "Corona," by extinguishing all social articulation in our beloved country has rendered recondite even some exhibitions that one would like to call "minor," but which always fulfill the function of revealing the...Read more...
Man from Ancient to Renaissance. For the long-awaited living exhibitions on Ulysses and Raphael.
Two formidable exhibitions lie locked away, waiting to pour out their extraordinary contents that, at the beginning of this third millennium, certainly re-propose the structural arc of Mediterranean civilization as a perennial path of culture. ...Read more...
In Sleepy Parma. A Fifth Centenary portentous, and silent.
In this astonished phase of our social life, the meditative isolation of many can be used as a rediscovery and recovery of wondrous realities that everywhere surround us, each of which certainly carries perennial values. Yes, March was the ancient La...Read more...
A Raphael of Love
You who know what love is... Cherubino's heartfelt, anxious questioning of Mozart's limpid melody can hardly propose itself before the dazzling Raphael Exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale. It nevertheless contorts every visitor through the unbe...Read more...
Ulysses in Forli: a rich exhibition worth repeated returns
Nothing would be remembered and nothing then sung, but on a distant day "beautiful of fates and misfortunes kissed his petrous Ithaca, Odysseus." From there extended the immense myth of the man of "metis," of the infinitude of mental machinatio...Read more...
The Countess of Correggio
Glimpse of sky over Reggio Emilia with the arrival of the Portrait of a Gentlewoman from the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and what a sky! It is the only large and luminous portrait executed by Correggio that comes to engulf the city at the mom...Read more...
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