Noemi Capoccia

Miart 2024: how much do the works cost? Our selection of 15 works, with prices

The twenty-eighth edition of Miart, the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan organized by Fiera Milano, has opened, and as has been customary for some time now at contemporary art fairs, we asked some galleries for the price of som...
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"This is how we will transform the Imperial Forums." Labics interview on the new promenade

The Labics studio, founded in 2002 by Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori, won the international competition to design the grand promenade of the Imperial Forums in Rome. Launched by Roma Capitale, the competition saw the participation of 23...
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In the beginning was the egg

From the Latin primitivus, "first in order of time," the term "primitive" is used to describe a period before the present. When early humans began to explore the land, seas, rivers and discover fire, their dawning was marked by a profound moment of ...
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Introducing children to art with figurines. Daniela Re, co-founder of Artonauts, speaks.

A successful initiative, born in 2021 and already in its fifth chapter. We are talking about Artonauts, the sticker album dedicated to the history of art, which, after the first album ("From Preistoia to Gauguin") and subsequent chapters ("The Twenti...
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The figure of Medusa in art: 10 works in 10 Italian museums

The mythological figure of the Gorgon has ancient roots. Its term comes from the ancient Greek gorgós, meaning terrible or even horrible. According to Hesiod, in his Theogony, the three Gorgons are daughters of Phorcus and Ceto. Depicted with ...
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Witch hunt: 5 places of persecution and witchcraft in Italy

Witch hunts marked a dark period in Europe between the 16th and 17th centuries, during which thousands of people, mainly women, were persecuted and executed for alleged links with witchcraft and the devil. This climate of terror and superstition was ...
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Five underwater archaeological parks to discover in Italy

The regions of Campania, Puglia and Calabria are rich in history and beauty: these lands that were once ancient kingdoms have been submerged by the waters, ports have suffered decline, while once-vital routes have been transformed into scenery evokin...
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Stefania Pandakovic (Il Ponte auction house): Antiquarian book market grows in Italy

The auction house Il Ponte will put up for sale in a few days an extraordinary Renaissance manuscript: the Codex Santini, a piece of exceptional importance, the only one of the period to deal with the subject of machinatio remaining in private hands....
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Magna Graecia in Salento, what to see: 10 places to visit

Salento is a land that fascinates tourists not only for its natural beauty, such as the sea and beaches of Torre Lapillo and the Bauxite quarries of Otranto, but also for its rich artistic, architectural and historical heritage. Located in the Italia...
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Temples of Darkness: on the Neoclassicism of Étienne-Louis Boullée

On the eve of the French Revolution, before the fall of the heads of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, a desire for new moral values in society and in the various arts was felt throughout France. With the end of the Baroque style, for the artist the ne...
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From eikon to crucifixion. The demonic in Medusa

There is a link between horror and beauty. The beauty of the human face is sometimes so intense that its magnificence cannot be sustained, and the eyes are forced to turn away. Moses himself cannot sustain God's gaze, for his beauty turns out to be a...
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When Pink Floyd played in Pompeii

Pompeii leaves a vague sense of disquiet and wonder, even today. Having become a space outside of time, to pass through its gates is to enter a dimension different from our own. But why did Scottish director Adrian Maben choose Pompeii specifically f...
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