The cultural interaction between Etruscans and Greeks, in what is referred to as Hellenistic Etruria, represents one of the most significant phenomena of antiquity, which left a profound imprint on art, religion and social organization. Indeed, Etrur...
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The happy event has taken place: the Virgin lifts two flaps of the white cloth covering the cradle inside which lies the sleeping newborn Child, to reveal Him to the shepherds who have come to adore Him along with their lambs, an ox and a dog. One, ...
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S. F.
, written on 17/12/2025
The relationship between Vasily Kandinsky (Moscow, 1866 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1944) andItaly is a complex affair, made up of missed encounters, long-distance admiration, and fruitful reworkings that in some ways marked the history of 20th-century art ...
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The figure of the She-wolf with twins occupies a foundational role in Siena's imagery because it recalls the city's legendary origins and embodies its deepest identity value. The animal's watchful posture, combined with the vitality of the two infant...
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The dragon, a mythical figure that has always populated the human imagination, has gone through centuries of iconographic transformations until it became the fire-breathing winged monster we know today. Its presence in the figurative arts recounts a ...
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When, in the eighteenth century, Johann Joachim Winckelmann tries to give a comprehensive shape to the history of ancient art, his gaze constructs a map in which Greece occupies the incandescent center. In the pages of Geschichte der Kunst des Altert...
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We owe to Giorgio Vasari the title by which one of Andrea del Sarto 's (Andrea d'Agnolo; Florence, 1486 - 1530) greatest masterpieces is known, the Madonna of the Harpies, a panel more than two meters high that is kept in the Uffizi and is placed at ...
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A singular portraitist: this could be the definition of photographer Lia Pasqualino (Palermo, 1970), whose work is imbued with a deep sense of humanity and silence. Granddaughter of the painter Lia Pasqualino Noto (Palermo, 1909 - 1998), she trained ...
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When in 1985 the Region of Tuscany dedicated an entire year to the promotion of Etruscan civilization, the project that developed took on a pioneering role in defining new ways of disseminating historical and archaeological heritage. TheYear of the E...
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From the post-World War II period until the early 2000s, Italian fashion built its public identity through a complex bond of communicative tools and aesthetic codes that today represent the heritage of the national imagination. Of great importance, t...
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It is not a fad. It is not even a comeback. It is a slow infiltration, a trickle that has become a river. For the past few years, contemporary art seems to be crossed by a different whisper, something that resembles prayer but behaves like a wound: i...
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What objects provide insight into the complexity, spirituality, and sophistication of the Etruscan people? In short: is it possible to compile a list of ten objects for understanding the Etruscans? We have tried. Cinerary urns and votive bronzes that...
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The work of Guido Guidi (Cesena, Italy, 1941) can be compared to that of a geologist who, instead of looking for gold or diamonds, focuses on sedimentary rocks and seemingly ordinary cracks in the ground. Guidi is not looking for spectacular beauty (...
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The Palio di Siena is one of the most fascinating and complex events in Italy, organized directly by the City of Siena. Every year, on July 2 and August 16, ten out of seventeen contrade run the historic competition and compete for the prestigious dr...
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Those who arrive at the Rovigo Rotunda from the most beautiful and most convenient street, the one leading to the long square opened in 1864, are in danger of being fooled: a lawn, pines, two wings of cobblestones and two rows of colorful houses that...
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Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio, 1968), although internationally recognized primarily for his Cuts (or, rather, Waits), actually devoted a preponderant part of his creative activity to ceramics, a medium of expression that he radically transf...
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