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, 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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S. F., written on 21/03/2024
Design expert Bernd Polster has written that Brionvega, the historic Italian consumer electronics brand, has distinguished itself in the world of audio products dominated by Far Eastern companies by its ability to enhance technology with a little poe...
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This beautiful painting preserved at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (fig. 1) was part of Cardinal Federico Borromeo 's Collection and is first described in a notarial deed of 1607: "A painting one arm's length, and three quarters of an inch in height, whe...
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In the vast landscape of contemporary art, figures emerge who challenge convention and invite us to reflect on fundamental concepts such as identity, corporeality and perception. Yet few names rise with the same boldness and visual power as Joan Semm...
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The roads along the Tuscan territory, those traced by the Etruscans, do not heavily modify nature, but rather go along with it, delicately following its boundaries, and gracefully fit into a landscape cradled in the past that, only at times and for a...
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This contribution is dedicated to the analysis of Caravaggio 's Medusa and the effects this work had on the art world. In order to put more emphasis on this painting, which represents a fundamental turning point in his painting, and to endow it with ...
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Immense was the dismay caused, in August 1877, by the news of the death of Francesco Mosso, a talented painter from Turin who had passed away at the age of only twenty-nine. The tone of the obituaries was always the same: who knows what he would have...
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Collection [col-le-zió-ne] s. f. [from Latin collectio -onis, der. of colligÄ•re "to collect"]. - An orderly collection of objects of the same kind having value either for their intrinsic value or for their historical or artistic or scienti...
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Art history is a male domain of mastery: a peaceful consideration that few would question. After all, in a purely male-dominated world it could not have been otherwise, so much so that only in relatively recent times has the role of women in the art ...
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A memorable undertaking for a memorable wedding. One could summarize thus, in seven words, the Fasti di Elisabetta Farnese cycle, the series of paintings that was commissioned from Ilario Mercanti known as the Spolverini (Parma, 1657 - 1734) on the o...
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"Michelangelo [...] from his modest castle where that great man was born, my thoughts turn to Vespignano, to Vinci, to Certaldo where Giotto, Leonardo, Boccaccio were born, and to so many other Italian lands from whence other supreme men came forth t...
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Leonardo da Vinci is a "painter of light." This is how art historian Professor Martin Kemp, a longtime lecturer at Oxford University and one of the foremost experts on the great Tuscan artist, defined him during a lecture entitled Leonardo da Vinci....
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Introduction by Giuseppe Adani
Michele Frazzi's studies turn with strong intentionality to the search for the composite definition of the social and cultural world that enveloped Michelangelo Merisi in his shuddering Roman years, and in this space-a...
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It all began with a pilgrimage. In the Jubilee year 1500, Battista Graziani, known as Garzadori, traveled to the Holy Land and, having arrived on the banks of the Jordan River, vowed to build a shrine, dedicating it to the saint who baptized Christ i...
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This brief essay takes the form of a sequence of notes, first on the Madonna of Casalmaggiore, a painting executed by Correggio probably around the year 1522, oil on canvas measuring cm. 90.5 x 72.2 preserved at the Städelinstitut in Frankfurt, ...
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