Exhibition reviews Impressionism London Modern Art Nineteenth century Twentieth Century
Born in New England in 1834 and having moved to Europe at a very young age, James McNeill Whistler was not only a key figure in European painting during the Post-Impressionist era, but also a theatrical character, witty and irreverent, a…
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Works and artists Ancient art Modern Art Venice
Death and resurrection. These are the words that define the meaning of Venice in In Search of Lost Time, a work where the city holds a profound symbolic value in the story told there, with the protagonist's discovery of his own vocation…
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Exhibition reviews Impressionism Modern Art Nineteenth century Paris Paris Twentieth Century
The European visitor to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art who enters the unfamiliar and seductive space that is the American Wing, under its stained-glass windows that seem to seal off the works on display as if inside a crystal…
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Works and artists Ancient art Florence Paul Bird Renaissance Tuscany
San Romano, June 1, 1432. In this plain, between Montopoli and Pontedera, took place the gran et bel facto darme, in the words of the chronicler Guerriero da Gubbio, which did not have a decisive effect in the war that had been opposing…
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Works and artists Ancient art Florence John from the Bridge Medieval art Three hundred Tuscany
Between the end of the fourteenth century and the first decades of the century to come, Florentine painting was filled with graceful, mostly angelic, musician figures. From Agnolo Gaddi to Gherardo Starnina, from Lorenzo Monaco to Fra'…
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