In one of the most intense passages of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, namely the narration of the protagonist Andrea Sperelli 's convalescence after receiving a nasty wound in a duel (an episode that marks the end of the first part of D'Annunzio's...
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Brassaï, pseudonym of Gyula Halász (Brașov, 1899 - Nice, 1984), stands as a central figure in 20th-century photography, whose work is inextricably linked to his ability to capture the innermost and most mysterious soul of Paris. Of Hunga...
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Nature has created true masterpieces in the animal world. One of the most jaw-dropping examples is the peacock: it is as if a painter from who knows where in the universe took pleasure in painting with extraordinary meticulousness an infinite number ...
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At the gates of Cairo, on July 21, 1798, the French army led by Napoleon Bonaparte (Ajaccio, 1769 - St. Helena, 1821) came into conflict with the Mamluk troops in what would go down in history as the Battle of the Pyramids, an episode that from the b...
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"Once upon a time" a painting that did not want to reassure. A painting that scratched, that whispered through mute faces and animal paws, a painting that hid behind veils of color and allusions, as if each canvas were the thin curtain between a worl...
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Of the entire oeuvre of Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), most of the general public, who perhaps also attend exhibitions onImpressionism, tends to know mainly the works of the 1870s and 1880s, those that more than others helped to define t...
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In the panorama of medieval cartography, the birth of the firstportulan chart of the Mediterranean marked a momentous turning point in the way geographic space was conceived and represented, and between the 13th and 14th centuries, a new tool made i...
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In the painting of Alex Katz (New York, 1927), one of the leading names in American New Realism ,summer never ends. It is not, however, a summer as we understand it in Italy: if anything, Katz's summer should be thought of as a quiet one, far removed...
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The exhibition The Gift of Art. Donations Acquisitions Restorations 2004-2025 set up at the Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari "Corrado Iaquinto," curated by Nicola Zito, until Oct. 10, aims to highlight a specific aspect of the interaction between the m...
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"Friends will be friends," sang the unforgettable Freddie Mercury. Words set to music that years later continue to express a simple and powerful truth: in life's challenges, in moments of joy but especially in moments of difficulty, it is good to kno...
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The dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, struck on August 6 and 9, 1945 in the first and only nuclear strikes in history, brought unprecedented devastation to the two cities, marking one of the darkest and most decisive pages in mod...
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A snowfall in the middle of summer. It happened, according to one legend, on the night of August 4-5, 358 A.D., when a blanket of fresh snow covered the Esquiline Hill in Rome. At the origin of the prodigy was adreamlike apparition of the Virgin, who...
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Tuscany has transformed itself over the past half-century into one of the preferred destinations for contemporary Japanese artists, attracted by the millennia-old tradition of marble and bronze working, the beauty of the landscapes and a cultural env...
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Daniele Galliano (Pinerolo, 1961), one of Italy's leading contemporary painters, has long used (and to some extent continues to use) eroticism and references to pornography as raw material for a painting that starts with everyday images and turns int...
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Two worlds that, on the surface, appear as far apart as they can be: Japan and Tuscany. The land of the rising sun and the land of the Renaissance. Yet, Japan and Tuscany are closer than one might think, because they share ties rooted in a history th...
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Jean Dubuffet's relationship with the city of Venice could be defined, in a jargon consonant with social media, as a "complicated relationship"; a sort of love-hate that began with a heavy rejection, continued with an idyll, and resurfaced a few year...
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