Jacopo Suggi
Nato a Livorno nel 1989, dopo gli studi in storia dell'arte prima a Pisa e poi a Bologna ho avuto svariate esperienze in musei e mostre, dall'arte contemporanea, alle grandi tele di Fattori, passando per le stampe giapponesi e toccando fossili e minerali, cercando sempre la maniera migliore di comunicare il nostro straordinario patrimonio.
Remo Brizzi, notes for the rediscovery of an artist
Speaking of works of art, one would wonder if the consummate question applies, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, has it made a sound?" Does the completeness of paintings, sculptures or creative products whose vision has remained the...Read more...
Elin Danielson Gambogi, the story of a painter against convention between Finland and Italy
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 ...Read more...
Michelangelo Buonarroti's Birthplace in Caprese: a journey through sculpture
"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...Read more...
What to see in Sansepolcro: a historical-artistic itinerary through the streets of the center
Writing about that splendid strip of land between the banks of the Upper Tiber, known as the Valtiberina, Antonio Paolucci argued, "In this part of Italy, Beauty is ubiquitous and pervasive. Ubiquitous because you encounter it everywhere, pervasive b...Read more...
Piero della Francesca's Resurrection in the pages of art history
At the eastern end of Tuscany, almost on the border withUmbria, nestled on the banks of the Tiber is the small town of Sansepolcro, a reality where art constitutes one of the primary reasons for attraction. Indeed, it is a land that has been the birt...Read more...
The places of St. Francis in Valtiberina: an itinerary among devotion, art and nature
The importance of walking has archetypal values, taking on practical, liturgical and spiritual functions in numerous religions, and Catholicism is no exception. It is certainly not uncommon for people, most of whom became saints, to have based their ...Read more...
Lorenzo Viani, the inconvenient heretic in Italian art history
It seems to be an established practice, that guilty and senseless delay with which we in Italy reacquaint ourselves with the protagonists of artistic events between the 19th and 20th centuries. Whether out of cultural snobbery, spasmodic foreignophil...Read more...
Avant-gardes from Philadelphia to Pisa. Strengths and limitations of the Palazzo Blu exhibition
When and how the history of contemporary art begins is a question with not a few ambiguities. In academia, according to rather widespread conventions, it is made to coincide with historiographical periodizations that situate the origins of the contem...Read more...
Elisa Nepote's investigation of blue.
Michel Pastoureau, the French historian and anthropologist, through numerous studies and publications has investigated the history of color far and wide, filling at least in part the knowledge gaps that insisted on the evolution of the relationship o...Read more...
Primo Conti and the events of Futurism in Livorno
Certainly art lovers and scholars are familiar with the contribution that the city of Livorno made to the vicissitudes of Italian art between the 19th and 20th centuries. The capital of the Tuscan province of the same name, although it attest...Read more...
A rich selection of JoaquÃn Sorolla's masterpieces: what the centennial exhibition in Valencia looks like
The international art scene is reacquainting itself with the painting of Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, and Italy, too, has recently rediscovered one of the major protagonists of modern Spanish painting, thanks to the exhibition organized at the P...Read more...
Rediscovering John March, cosmopolitan painter. The Livorno exhibition (30 years after the last one).
Giovanni March - The Painter of Light and Atmosphere is the interesting exhibition dedicated to Giovanni March, one of the protagonists of Leghorn and Tuscan painting, open at the Castagneto Banca 1910 representative office in Leghorn until May 27. A...Read more...
The Gallery of Modern Art in Genoa: among Risorgimento battles, landscapes and pointillism
Genoa preserves one of the largest medieval historic centers in Europe, in its tangle of caruggi and squares it holds the symbols of power and treasures of its past as a Maritime Republic. Not only that, the Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi...Read more...
Art and money: the role of bankers in the history of art on display at Gallerie d'Italia
From the Medici to the Rothschilds. Patrons, Collectors, Philanthropists is the new exhibition open at the Gallerie d'Italia in Milan from Nov. 18 until March 26, 2023, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Sebastian Schütze, and produced in partners...Read more...
Longing for Africa. African art and the avant-garde
Since ancient times, cultural contaminations and appropriations have distinguished the confrontation and clash between different communities, involving the most diverse fields of human knowledge, from language to writing, from cultivation techniques ...Read more...
Giulio Paolini: The fate of art today? To be abstract with respect to a pressing reality
On Sept. 15, in the sumptuous spaces of theWestin Excelsior Hotel in Rome, the names of the winners of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious award, among the most important prizes for contemporary artists in five artistic disciplines: painting, sculp...Read more...
The great masters of Spanish painting in the Museum of Fine Arts in Seville
The center ofAndalusia, Seville is certainly one of the best-known and most sought-after destinations for tourists coming to Spain, and the city is strongly anchored in its traditions, which are moreover a major attraction. Seville is also an importa...Read more...
The exhibition in Siena dedicated to the man of letters Federigo Tozzi and his relationship with art
The exhibition The Shadow of Youth. Federigo Tozzi and the Figurative Arts, which opened on April 10 in the airy rooms of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena and will be on view until July 20, not only offers a dutiful insight into Federigo Tozz...Read more...
On the scaffolding of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's masterpiece. When restoration becomes an opportunity for study
Holder of an immense cultural and artistic heritage,Italy is continually called to account for the preservation of this extraordinary fragile and varied wealth, which would continually need attention to survive the centuries. But due to resou...Read more...
Siena, Palazzo Chigi president Zondadari speaks. "This is what the new museum will look like."
On Sunday, May 8, a new museum reality was formally inaugurated in Siena: it was the opening of the Casa Museo Palazzo Chigi Zondadari, a stately palace that has dominated the iconic Piazza del Campo since 1724. The palace is in fact the last build...Read more...
The restoration of the monument to Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo in Livorno
The year 2021 was a lucky one for the process of critical rediscovery of 18th-century Tuscan art. The real protagonist was the major exhibition Giovanni Antonio Cybei and his time held in Carrara from July to August 2021, which gave back to a...Read more...
The Imagined Orient. Eros in nineteenth-century Italian painting.
LOriente as a mental construct of Europe has always been identified and seen as a mysterious and distant territory, ancient and wild. This construct had very blurred geographic boundaries, which Europeans pushed farther and farther as new geo...Read more...
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmi di Tortona: the museum that collects masterpieces of Divisionism
Nineteenth-century Italian art and some of its offshoots that ventured into the decades of the following century have long enjoyed lukewarm fortunes in Italy. The rejection by formalist critics of all idealizing movements of culture accused o...Read more...
The Carlo Pepi Collection: macchiaioli, Modigliani and Picasso in the hills of Pisa
The collection belonging to Carlo Pepi is an immense collection of works, consisting largely of paintings and drawings, the outlines of which are certainly not easy or at least immediate to trace. It is arranged in two villas in the province...Read more...
Lisbon's Gulbenkian Museum, the gigantic collection of a political persecutor
Among the most visited museums in Portugal, the Gulbenkian Museum, albeit with a recent history, has become one of the main attractions of the country and its capital, Lisbon. This very rapid emergence is due to the extraordinary and happy c...Read more...
Portuguese larte at Lisbon's Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga amid Flemish and Italian cues
Among the great European museums, Lisbon 's Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga plays the part of the Cinderella: little known, it is certainly not one of the most popular destinations for international tourists passing through the Portuguese capital...Read more...
Mario Puccini, the Van Gogh of Livorno: the unpublished masterpieces of the genius of color
In the 20th century, in a sunny Italian province, a branch of artists was giving birth to one of the most interesting artistic experiences on the peninsula. In the city of Livorno, the twentieth century saw an inexplicable proliferation of outs...Read more...
Adolfo Wildt's Saint Lucia, the forgotten masterpiece, arrives at Livorno's Fattori Museum
In normal times, the news ofa public museum's acquisition of a masterpiece such as Adolfo Wildt 's (Milan, 1868 - 1931) Santa Lucia would certainly have had exceptional prominence, but in our contemporary times still grappling with a pandemi...Read more...
Giovanni Fattori and the peaks of Italian engraving
By now, Roberto Longhi 's infamous anathema "Good night Mr. Fattori" hurled at the Macchiaioli and Giovanni Fattori has been cast aside. The Piedmontese critic had branded the Tuscan experience with provincialism, capable of producing only rhetoric...Read more...
Anna Franchi: the extraordinary story of the woman who discovered the Macchiaioli painters
Just over forty years ago, the rooms of PalazzoRealeaMilan hosted the celebrated exhibition The Other Half of the Avant-Garde 1919-1940. Women Painters and Sculptors in the Historic Avant-Garde Movements, which constitutes a milestone in studies ...Read more...
Angiolo Vannetti, the sculptor of demolished monuments
Recently we have witnessed the national and international public debate centralize around the questioning of the role of traditional monuments, following the claims of the Black Lives Matter movement. Some protests have resulted in true acts of i...Read more...
The history of the Labronico Group: the artistic tradition in Livorno
Speaking of Italian and European art history, it seems obvious to highlight the contribution made by ancient Tuscan municipalities such as Florence, Siena, Pisa, Pistoia and Arezzo, writing some fundamental chapters in almost every century. Less ...Read more...
Alternative museum ideas: house museums, places of memory of distinguished personalities
The crisis triggered by the coronavirus has undeniably disrupted every area of human making, often forcing a rethinking of methods and approaches. Cultural venues have been no exception; and if in the lockdown period the need was to be able to co...Read more...
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