Rome rediscovers one of the most original and independent protagonists of 20th-century Europe, Max Peiffer Watenphul (Weferlingen, 1896 - Rome, 1976), on the 50th anniversary of his death. Until August 23, 2026, the National Gallery of Modern and Con...
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There are works before which the gaze slows down, almost without realizing it. Not because of their obvious complexity, nor because of the richness of the details, but because of a more subtle feeling that is difficult to name: something seems to be ...
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Between the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century, Tivoli assumed a new role in the European artistic imagination. Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este gradually ceased to be merely archaeological destinations or obligatory...
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There was a day in the year when Venice stopped being a city and became a bride. It happened duringAscension Day: forty days after Easter, during the "Feast of the Sensa" ("Sensa" is Ascension in Venetian), the Serenissima donned her richest clothes,...
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In the oldest part of Genoa, within the walls of Palazzo San Giorgio, a canvas survives that no other documents attest to, signed by a painter of whom almost nothing is known. It is Luchino da Milano's Saint George Slays the Dragon, dated 1444, an oi...
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In the history of the Mediterranean, the sea at some point stopped being just a physical space to be crossed and became something more complex: a theater of economic relations, of agreements, of disputes, of shared risks. A place, therefore, to be no...
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A cross painted to seal the encounter between East and West. A meeting we witness by looking at a large panel (297 centimeters high by 234 centimeters wide) now preserved in the Museo Nazionale di San Matteo in Pisa, hanging on a wall in the room whe...
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The concept of "maritime republics" is of relatively recent invention , a formulation owed to a Swiss historian named Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and in particular to his Histoire des républiques italiennes du moyen â...
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Since the interesting magazine Finestre sull'Arte has rightly wanted to expose to the general public the events that have unfortunately caused the painting known as the Taking of Christ, which my old friend Mario Bigetti discovered and verisimilarly ...
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Walpurga Night, still celebrated between April 30 and May 1, represents one of the most persistent and fascinating themes in European culture, a meeting point of folk tradition, religious imagery and artistic reworking. Among the many European tradit...
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A cloudburst of superlatives bathes the paper on which Nicolò Dorigati, a Trentino painter from a noble family, and therefore always well-connected, had tried to state the reasons for the altarpiece, his altarpiece, destined for the church of ...
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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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