Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968), although internationally recognized primarily for his Cuts (or, rather, Waits), actually devoted a preponderant part of his creative activity to ceramics, a medium of expression that he radically transf...
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The major 2025 exhibition on Fra Angelico in Florence (Palazzo Strozzi and Museo di San Marco, Sept. 26, 2025 to Jan. 25, 2026) had, among others, the merit of offering the public, in the first room of Palazzo Strozzi, a kind of ideal reconstruction ...
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Since my studies have sometimes led me to take an interest in Correggio's particular subjects and in his relations with the Gonzaga courts, with which he had an evocative continuity of relations, I can now present a result that illuminates a work of ...
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On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the restoration and new layout carried out by Carlo Scarpa (Venice, 1906 - Sendai, 1978) at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona in 2014, Alba Di Lieto and Alberto Vignolo edited and edited the publicati...
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Grimaces and disproportionate bodies, exaggerated expressions, protruding noses and gnarled hands: these are the elements that strike the viewer at first glance in the painting depicting the three alchemists at work by Pietro della Vecchia (Vicenza, ...
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Screams, terror and blood. On January 21, 1793, with the execution of Louis XVI (Versailles, 1754 - Paris, 1793), eight centuries of French monarchy were cut short in one day. The French Revolution had turned Paris into a theater of daily violence an...
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One can only imagine the sense of astonishment that, on that November 15, 1553, the people of Arezzo felt when news spread of the discovery of the splendid Etruscan bronze we know today as the Chimera of Arezzo. And even greater must have been the wo...
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Art, design and architecture are autonomous disciplines that often influence and contaminate each other, each maintaining its own identity and purpose. The roles of the artist, the designer and the architect, differ in their approach and goals. The d...
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It can happen that an ancient civilization is rediscovered centuries later and suddenly gains great popularity. This is what happened to the Etruscans over time. In the 16th century, large tombs emerged in Tuscany containing exceptional objects and i...
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What would happen if today, as they did in ancient Greece with sculptures placed in shrines and public spaces, suddenly and for different reasons works were removed because they hindered movement and circulation? Imagine if, as they did then, the aut...
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In Western religious painting, the theme of evil has also experienced a constant stylistic and iconographic evolution. It is not the purpose of this paper to reconstruct its evolution and fortune (a work already exhaustively accomplished in Luther Li...
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We know from his notebooks that Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, in 1866, was in Lodi. For a field study, basically: a survey of everything that would flow first into the History of Painting in North Italy, written with Joseph Archer Crowe and publish...
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It was unclear whether it was day or evening. The light, filtered through heavy curtains, caught in the pigments still fresh on the canvas, shone in the pools of petrol blue, faded in the somber purples. Jadé Fadojutimi stood there, brush dow...
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All of Correggio's frescoes and almost all of his mobile paintings are bearers of particular meanings, not often easy to decipher, that explicate values of a Christian scope and that flow from deep meditations which lead to his well-known composition...
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A recent book by Gabriele Bissolo, published in 2021 but updated in subsequent years in new editions, entitled Painters in Verona 1850-1920 (Edizioni d'Arte Quinta Parete), has collected the biographies of as many as 280 painters active in Verona bet...
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According to a widespread critical interpretation, the unfolding of English drama between the reign of Elizabeth and that of James I can be divided into three phases, corresponding to different conceptions of life. Early Elizabethan drama (Robert Gre...
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