Exhibition reviews Ancient art Baroque Bologna Classicism Guercino Six hundred
Among the great Bolognese painters of the seventeenth century, perhaps Giovanni Francesco Barbieri da Cento, better known as Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666), is the one who best exerts his ascendancy over a vast public: certain…
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Works and artists Classicism Nineteenth century Romanticism
In this new Descubrir el Arte article written by Natalia de Val Navares and translated by Ilaria, we review the biography and artistic career of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. So to learn more about this artist, do not hesitate to read the article!…
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Works and artists Ancient art Classicism Guido Reni Oriental art Six hundred
Exactly 45 years ago, on November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the great Japanese writer, took his own life in a ritual suicide ("seppuku"), the real motive for which is still the focus of much debate today. Mishima always had a strong and…
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Works and artists Ancient art Classicism Eighteenth century Florence
Almost all of the production of Carlo Dolci (1616 - 1687), among the greatest artists of seventeenth-century Florence, consists of sacred subjects, which fully reflect the temperament of this great painter. And the temperament is that of a…
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Works and artists Ancient art Baroque Classicism Florence Six hundred
Often, "laymen" are wont to attribute a lower value to drawings than to paintings: but drawing is a fundamental means of understanding the dynamics of the artist's creative process and of getting to know his style better, as well as of…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bologna Classicism Five hundred Six hundred
Andrea Emiliani is one of the most eminent figures in the history of Italian art: a great scholar, a pupil of Roberto Longhi and Francesco Arcangeli, he is also known for having been an excellent superintendent for the cultural heritage of…
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Works and artists Ancient art Baroque Bologna Classicism Mannerism Medieval art Renaissance
After the major exhibition on Guido Reni in 1954, the subsequent Biennali d'Arte Antica also continued to deal with classicist painters: for example, in 1956 it was the turn of the Carracci, in 1962 there was the exhibition L'Ideale…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bologna Classicism Guido Reni Six hundred
After curating the Exhibition of Bolognese Painting of the Fourteenth Century, which we had talked about in the first installment of this series of ours dedicated to the great Bolognese exhibitions of the past, Roberto Longhi moved to…
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