In the current landscape of artistic and intellectual production, drawing is undergoing a significant phase of critical resignification that disrupts its traditional role as a merely ancillary or preparatory practice. While historically the graphic a...
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A major figure ofArt Deco: one could sum up in these few words the profile of Erté (Roman Petrovič Tyrtov; St. Petersburg, 1892 - Paris, 1990), a Russian-born but French-born artist in all respects, a multifaceted personality capable of influe...
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Medieval man dwells within a tangle of symbols, lives by visions that lie between the earthly and the divine, conceives the universe according to an order that is not our own. In the mind of medieval man drowns all geometry; there are no straight lin...
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The artistic landscape of the 20th century is dotted with figures who tried to frame reality in rigid manifestos, but among them stands out Anselmo Bucci (Fossombrone, 1887 - Monza, 1955), a personality who made independence, eclecticism and intellec...
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In the Etruscan world, the divine came through detail. Every anomaly in the sky, every variation in the animal body, every vibration of the earth carried a message. The priest did not pronounce dogma, but he read the world. His gaze flowed over the v...
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Death and resurrection. These are the words that define the meaning of Venice in In Search of Lost Time, a work where the city holds a profound symbolic value in the story told there, with the protagonist's discovery of his own vocation for literatur...
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Between the rigors of winter and the explosion of summer, there is a season when shyly nature is reborn and blooms again. We notice it in the meadows filled with daisies, in the branches of trees, in the tiny buds that put seedlings on our balconies ...
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The history of one of Andy Warhol 's (Pittsburgh, 1928 - New York, 1987) masterpieces, namely the Ladies and Gentlemen series, which was first exhibited in its entirety right here at the Palazzo dei Diamanti between October and December 1975 (and is ...
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The action is quick and painless, the result immediate and comforting under the magnificent vault of the Sistine Chapel. That veil of white that has thickened exclusively over Michelangelo's Last Judgment, dulling the 391 figures painted by the maste...
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The monographic exhibition on Emilio Malerba (Milan, 1878 - 1926) that the Fondazione Ragghianti of Lucca dedicated to the great Milanese painter on the centenary of his death, the first modern monographic exhibition devoted to him (curated by Paolo ...
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Versailles, the quintessential symbol of French monarchical power, has inspired artists of different eras and styles, becoming the subject of a story that spans centuries. From Israel Silvestre 's engravings of 1682, which immortalize the Palace as s...
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The visual universe of Horst P. Horst (Weissenfels, 1906 - Palm Beach, 1999) was never simply a matter of clothes or passing trends. On the contrary, for the German naturalized American photographer, each shot represented an opportunity to build worl...
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At a time when madness was still seen as an obscure and stigmatized phenomenon, Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791-Paris, 1824) tackled the subject with rigor and depth. We are talking about the same Géricault who, yes, had led Fren...
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Leonardo da Vinci's famous maxim "sad is that disciple who does not advance his master" seems to have guided the students of Giuseppe Baldini (Livorno, 1807 - 1876), a Leghorn artist who imparted the first rudiments in painting to important names in ...
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A man bent over a drawing board as the whole world seems to be sliding into the abyss. In his hand a small nib dipped in ink: this is how Arthur Szyk (Łódź, 1894 - New Canaan, Cunnecticut, 1951) portrays himself on the title page of Ink and Bl...
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Empoli, summer of 1925: a small room located at the end of a vegetable garden on Via Tripoli becomes the center of gravity for a new generation of creative artists and returns to us today the image not of a motionless and silent province, like the on...
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