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The Fantastical Visions of Gustave Doré: A Book Entirely Devoted to His Work

The Fantastical Visions of Gustave Doré: A Book Entirely Devoted to His Work

Gustave Doré: a name that conjures up grandiose, surreal, and fantastical images. Doré does not merely illustrate or paint; he has visions, and he shapes these visions into tangible form through the skillful use of his art. In 2022, Ali...
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A book to discover the drawings by Neapolitan artists at the Prado: Viviana Farina’s book

A book to discover the drawings by Neapolitan artists at the Prado: Viviana Farina’s book

Neapolitan artists have crossed the Tyrrhenian Sea many times throughout history—with their canvases and panels, of course, but just as often, and perhaps even more so, with paper: sheets of drawings in pen, ink, and watercolor that passed from hand ...
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Why "Guernica" Continues to Speak to Us (But Will Eventually Be Forgotten). An Interview with Luca Nannipieri

Why "Guernica" Continues to Speak to Us (But Will Eventually Be Forgotten). An Interview with Luca Nannipieri

Pablo Picasso’s*Guernica* is one of the most recognizable symbols of 20th-century art. But what truly makes a work of art a classic? And how long can its fame endure throughout history? In his new book, *Pablo Picasso’s Guernica: The Rise...
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Medicea Reborn: The Journal of Medici Studies Is Now Online with a New Digital Series

Medicea Reborn: The Journal of Medici Studies Is Now Online with a New Digital Series

*Medicea: Journal of Medici Studies* returns to the publishing scene in a new digital format, with a new publisher and a revamped structure. Announced on March 25—coinciding with the Florentine New Year’s Day celebrated until 1750—the journal is now ...
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Franco Maria Ricci opens first store outside the Labirinto della Masone in Venice

Franco Maria Ricci opens first store outside the Labirinto della Masone in Venice

Franco Maria Ricci Editore is opening a new store in Venice inside the Bottega Cini, marking the first opening outside the Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, in the province of Parma. The initiative is in the context of the 61st Venice Art Bienn...
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Women's cinema in the 1960s and 1970s: a volume on Italian women directors

Women's cinema in the 1960s and 1970s: a volume on Italian women directors

Fondazione In Between Art Film presents Italian Female Filmmakers in the Sixties and Seventies: Lives, Histories, and Identities, a volume devoted to the film, documentary and video production made by female artists and filmmakers active in Italy bet...
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Ugo Mulas and Jasper Johns: photography and analysis as the birth of a language

Ugo Mulas and Jasper Johns: photography and analysis as the birth of a language

There is a precise moment in the history of twentieth-century visual culture when photographic documentation ceases to be mere supportive reporting and turns into pure interpretation, itself becoming a critical act of the highest profile. This bounda...
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Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

Up for auction is the De Oratore illustrated by Bartolomeo Sanvito, a masterpiece of Renaissance miniature painting

A masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the international market. Indeed, in May, at Pandolfini 's Milan headquarters, an extraordinary copy of Marcus Tullius Cicero's De Oratore, illuminated and calligraphed by Bartolomeo Sanvito (P...
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