Disturbing. Everything is extremely disturbing: that is the adjective I would use to describe George Grosz’s*Solar Eclipse *. Despite its title, the painting has nothing to do with the extraordinary and extremely rare astronomical phenomenon (the las...
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For nearly five hundred years, anyone who enters the Hall of Olympus at Villa Barbaro in Maser, in the province of Treviso, has had the impression of being watched—and, in a certain sense, protected—by the principal deities of the Greek pantheon. Ar...
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On the occasion of the tenth Lerici Music Festival—an initiative that, for the third year, presents an unprecedented dialogue between contemporary art and music, curated by Carlo Orsini and organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua— Villa Mar...
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A cup containing a magic potion, Ulysses and Circe: one of the most enigmatic episodesof the Odyssey takes place right in the sorceress’s home, where seduction, metamorphosis, and deception intertwine, captivating and inspiring the paintings of many...
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How big can an idea be? The mind can give birth to something infinitesimally small as well as something infinitesimally large. Even the most monumental work ever created can always be infinitely larger in concept, so that the idea itself manages to b...
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A profusion of gold floods Gustav Klimt’s *Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I* , sweeping through the entire composition like a river of precious metal and immersing the viewer in a dazzling vision. Gold is the undisputed protagonist of the entire...
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We cannot go back in time; however, we can recreate a past event that was particularly significant, both to bring it back to the memory of those who experienced it and to try to explain its significance to those who were not yet born or were too youn...
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Don't take it personally or, if you do, take offense at the somewhat strong comparison you are about to read. I think people are sometimes like those insects attracted by light (or sweat, given the season): they head in true swarms to what they hear ...
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