All the articles by Francesca Anita Gigli on Finestre sull'Arte

The Prison of the Mind. Mona Hatoum's art at the Bruges Triennial.

Theswing has always been among the freest and happiest games a child knows: it is a safe, public and impersonal nonplace where one pretends to fly while the air dishevels one's hair with irreverence and escape, dreams, seem to be a few inches closer ...
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Arnaldo Pomodoro's Labyrinth: a journey through history and the human psyche

"My entrance into the labyrinth is an invitation into the meanders of a path, where time is transformed into space and space in turn becomes time. " These are the words of the artist Arnaldo Pomodoro himself when we find ourselves inside his artwork,...
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Buried Secrets. The Murlo Archaeological Museum and ancient Etruscan civilization.

The roads along the Tuscan territory, those traced by the Etruscans, do not heavily modify nature, but rather go along with it, delicately following its boundaries, and gracefully fit into a landscape cradled in the past that, only at times and for a...
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Lorenzo Lotto and those anti-heretical paintings that perhaps inspired Pellegrino Tibaldi

A snow-white and almost lunar arm attempts to grasp a hand beneath him: it is thearchangel Michael, shrouded in the divine glow of a cloud, seemingly in a last desperate and vain attempt to save the brazen morning star, still in human and harmonious ...
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A very ancient labyrinth -- nuragic. The labyrinth of the Domus de Janas of Luzzanas.

There are countless places in Italy that hold ancient legends and hide magical creatures of all kinds, but only in Sardinia are Domus de Janas found. They look like tiny houses carved into the rock and, according to the oldest folk tales, they are sa...
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San Pietro al Monte in Civate, an ancient abbey in the solitude of the forest

1. Two. Three. Four. Thus begin, with one foot in front of the other, all discoveries in the mountains. They begin by counting the beats of one's heart, the breaths, the steps that follow one another and the minutes or hours that have passed since on...
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Unusual and little-known Sardinia: 10 places to discover

Hidden among the turquoise waves of the sea and sculpted by the strong wind, stands wild and guardian of raw legends, the island of Sardinia. A land, this one, that possesses an untamed beauty, where the waves crash with unprecedented force against t...
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Today's art? Too commercial: real talent looks ahead. Roberto Casamonti speaks.

Gallery owner Roberto Casamonti has devoted almost his entire life to discovering and encouraging visionary artists, and his Tornabuoni gallery, founded in 1981 in Florence, has become an essential stop for art lovers, exhibiting works by the masters...
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