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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There are colors that are remembered. Carmine red, cobalt blue, Veronese green. Then there is Payne's gray: a hue that seems made not for shouting, but for remembering. Giulia Andreani employs it as if it were a form of language. Not a hue, but a cod...
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Renata Boero (Genoa, 1936) is counted among the leading female figures in the art of the second half of the 20th century, active on the international scene since the 1960s. Her artistic research focuses on a fine line between the creative gesture and...
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Painter, historiographer, architect. Outstanding collector of anecdotes. Polemicist at times. Court artist. And also inventor of iconographies. It is the latter, perhaps, that is the least known aspect of Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574...
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In the middle of the night, on an ink-black canvas, emerges a phallic figure standing alone on a calm sea, illuminated by a blazing sunset. It is Sea Dick (2022), one of the most recent works by Tala Madani, an Iranian-American artist who for years h...
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Some call it Kundalini, some identify it with the Dragon, and some consider it a cosmic principle. In some religious traditions it takes the form of the Ouroboros, a symbol of eternal return. Within our imagination, the serpent has always exercised a...
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Arnaldo Pomodoro has recently left us, and perhaps, alongside the catalog of his production, an event deserves to be remembered that for his entire life linked him to his homeland, Montefeltro. Indeed, in 1975 Pomodoro began the work that Argan calle...
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At the heart of the contemporary digital landscape, Petra Cortright moves like a cybernetic gardener, sowing pixels and reaping emotions. Born in 1986 in Santa Barbara, California, and educated between California College of the Arts and Parsons The N...
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Since Neolithic times, since at least 6000 B.C., the islands of the Aegean Sea and the lands bathed by it have been found to be inhabited. The political, economic, religious and artistic forms that developed until 2000 B.C. are given the name Cycladi...
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It is hard not to get the impression that something is about to explode when one is confronted with a work by Jamian Juliano-Villani. And it is not just the visual density, the well-orchestrated chaos of references and images, but a deeper tension, a...
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July 4 marksAlice Day, an anniversary that commemorates the afternoon in 1862 when Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, destined to become known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll (Daresbury, 1832 - Guildford, 1898), first told the story of a little girl named Alic...
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It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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