Works and artists

May 1, there is work and work: crafts in art from the Egyptians to the 20th century

May 1 has witnessed many significant and revolutionary events. Known as Workers ' Day or Labor Day, the day commemorates workers' struggle for better working conditions, union rights and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Its origins date back ...
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A lesson in dance in eighteenth-century Venice: the celebrated work of Pietro Longhi

Those who want to know the social life of 18th-century Venice , entering the homes of the nobles and bourgeoisie, the places they frequented, understanding how they spent their days, what their activities were and what their pastimes were, should ind...
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When a small lemon squeezer revolutionizes design: the KS 1481 by Gino Colombini for Kartell

If you have an orange or lemon-shaped juicer in your home, it is very likely that the person who designed it was inspired by a true legend of kitchen design, namely the KS 1481 lemon squeezer, a masterpiece by Gino Colombini (Milan, 1915 - 2011) desi...
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Aligi Sassu's The Martyrs of Piazzale Loreto, one of the best-known works of the Resistance

At a quarter past eight in the morning of August 8, 1944, a truck belonging to the Germans occupying Milan was the target of an attack that, according to the records of the Republican National Guard, did not result in any casualties among the Nazi so...
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All the history of Piazza Navona, the most Roman of Rome's squares

On the occasion of the redevelopment of the Crypt of the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone with the new artistic and architectural lighting system donated by Webuild Group, we discover the history of Piazza Navona, from antiquity to the present. "Every...
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The treasures of Sant'Agnese in Agone, a sumptuous baroque temple in Rome

The enhancement of the Crypt of Sant'Agnese in Agone, with the new artistic and architectural lighting system donated by the Webuild Group, is an opportunity to go to the rediscovery of the entire complex of the sumptuous Roman church, a sumptuous pr...
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Heavenly engineering against the horrors of war: Ukrainian Aljoscha's "Brain Paradise"

Aljoscha (1974), born in Ukraine as Oleksii Potupin, is a visual artist known for his large-scale conceptual installations that explore concepts related to biology, life theory, and bioism, which represents a utopian ideal for the creation of new for...
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"Making art is an arrangement that involves every aspect of life." Conversation with Cesare Biratoni

Cesare Biratoni, born in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto in 1969, resides and works in Busto Arsizio. In his work, there is no distinction between collage and painting, nor between drawing and manipulated and recomposed photography. Biratoni is distinguish...
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Entrepreneurs and art patrons of today's Tuscany: who they are and what they do

Tuscany is not only celebrated for its beautiful landscapes and unparalleled artistic heritage, but also for a tradition of patronage that has spanned the centuries. Today, this noble practice finds expression in modern business and professional patr...
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"A splash of color on everyday color": Olivetti's Valentine typewriter

A bright, shiny red, a "Valentine red," is certainly the hallmark of the Valentine typewriter, designed in 1968 by Ettore Sottsass jr (Innsbruck, 1917 - Milan, 2007) and Perry King (London, 1938 - 2020) and produced by Olivetti in 1969. By this date,...
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Journey through the workshops of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence

There is a guaranteed method for making even the most peaceful of restorers hostile: uttering the phrase "restore to ancient splendor" in his presence. Emanuela Daffra, superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, is explaining this to us in fro...
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Portrait of a patron between Rome and the Apuan Alps: cardinal Alderano Cybo

Over the course of a long life (he died at age 87) and a very long cardinalate (he wore the purple for 55 years, beginning in 1645), Cardinal Alderano Cybo (Genoa, 1613 - Rome, 1700) translated a great interest in the arts - from music to literature,...
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Remo Brizzi, notes for the rediscovery of an artist

Speaking of works of art, one would wonder if the consummate question applies, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, has it made a sound?" Does the completeness of paintings, sculptures or creative products whose vision has remained the...
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A park of works made with flowers. The contemporary garden of the Montellori Farm.

"Some gardens are described as refuges, when in fact they are traps." The tender early spring air that channels along the avenue of pine trees at Montellori Farm does everything it can to belie the aphorism of Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Scottish poet w...
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Sandro Botticelli's Primavera, the very image of the beautiful season

When one thinks of a work of art that succeeds in embodying the essence of spring, probably the image that will most easily come to mind will be that of Botticelli's Primavera , at the risk of being a bit trite. Few paintings, however, have reached t...
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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...
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