Books Art Criticism Giovanni Testori Roberto Longhi Twentieth Century
“A wave of memories, of symbols, of recollections…” engulfs Giovanni Testori when he is invited by Anna Banti to speak about Roberto Longhi at the Florentine home on Via Fortini, headquarters of the foundation named…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Environmental art Four hundred Renaissance Rome
Despite her understated elegance and gaze that is in no way winking because instead she is concentrated, pensive, if not sad, on the words written in the sacred book she delicately holds in her hands, the star of the exhibition La…
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Exhibition reviews Mario Schifano Modern Art Twentieth Century
History, including art history, is not made with "what ifs." The uchrony leads us, however, to imagine what idea we would have today of the fabulous Italian Sixties - a decade encompassed and compressed at the antipodes between the arrival…
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Works and artists Ancient art Five hundred Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance Vatican Museums
The action is quick and painless, the result immediate and comforting under the magnificent vault of the Sistine Chapel. That veil of white that has thickened exclusively over Michelangelo's Last Judgment, dulling the 391 figures painted…
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Exhibition reviews Fausto Pirandello Modern Art Twentieth Century
Sicily, distant motherland but indelible matrix of many paintings. And Rome, city of birth and election, vital meeting point for art and family existence. But also launching pad to the international horizon, Parisian and American, before…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art Photography
A man walks through downtown Vancouver carrying something in a paper bag. We also see him in profile as, in another moment of the story in which he is both protagonist and extra, he talks to a woman leaning against the wall of a house. A…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art baroque art Brescia Six hundred
The lit candle and the color of the heat illuminating the hand, open to cover the flame in a gesture of protection and awe. The color play that adds artificial light to the light inside the painting. However, to make the spirituality of…
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Exhibition reviews Contemporary art John Frangi
Milan. In the deep darkness that precedes dawn - but in the glow of dawn we will discover another and more intense sense of bewilderment in the pictorial blackness that surrounds us - what strikes us about Nobu at Elba is the intense smell…
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