There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico Beccafumi ...
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In the white courtyard of the Bishop's Seminary in Senigallia, a group of young pretties chase each other, as if they wanted to fly, as if their black cloaks were wings. These images, which appear suspended, surreal, poetic and at the same time also ...
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There is a moment, when the late afternoon light hits a pastry shop window, when everything seems suspended. The shadows lengthen, the colors saturate, and each frosting reflects a golden glimmer. It is in this precise instant that Wayne Thiebaud (Me...
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Mimmo Jodice, born in Naples in 1934, is one of the most representative figures in Italian and international photography. His work, now the focus of the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. The Enigma of Light hosted at Udine Castle (from April 5 to Nov. 4, 2025...
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In the complex and stratified artistic career of Sandro Chia (Florence, 1946), paper has never been a mere secondary support: this thesis is also at the center of the recent exhibition Sandro Chia. The Two Painters. Works on Paper 1989-2017 (Lecce, F...
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"What is essential is invisible to the eyes," wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is the secret that the fox reveals to the Little Prince, an invitation to go beyond what is seen on the surface, which may perhaps at first glance seem insignif...
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The figure of Felice Casorati stands out on the early twentieth-century Italian art scene as a silent, rather secluded, but deeply incisive presence. His art, a refined, cultured art, traversed the major currents of the century with independent step,...
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In the vast panorama of the arts between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the singular, and still little-known, figure of Belgian painter Jules van Biesbroeck (Portici, 1873 - Brussels, 1965) represents a significant case for understanding the...
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What happens when the memory of a place crumbles between the fingers, like ore dust extracted from the earth? Otobong Nkanga digs into the sediments of history, the fractures of the landscape, the invisible scars of matter. Her art is not content to ...
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St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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April 2025. Coachella. A legend appears on stage and time does not stand still. During one of the festival's most anticipated evenings, Benson Boone (a young artist who grew up in a system that favors accessibility over emphasis and continuous st...
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Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenhagen, 1864 - 1916) is one of the most fascinating figures in European painting at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Born in Copenhagen, he was one of the greatest Danish artists of his time and experimented wit...
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In the silence of a late 19th-century Roman studio, a young artist portrays himself while looking at some works on paper. Behind him, on the wall, are hanging paintings. On the table are the working tools: the papers, the brushes, the jars with color...
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To see Enzo Tinarelli's mosaics it is necessary to see his painting; to see his painting it is necessary to get lost in the midst of his mosaics; to grasp the soul of his art, it may be useful to review a contribution that, it was the early 2000s, Va...
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Riccardo Bacchelli had a vivid youthful memory of Picasso, an ungrateful memory. He was then, 1911, practicing as editorial secretary at Prezzolini's Voce, even putting articles on the page. "For some time," Prezzolini would write in Il tempo della V...
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