The Marys around seem enraged with grief-Furious grief. One toward the head - on the left - holds out her open hand as if not to see the face of the corpse, and the cry and weeping and sobbing contract her face, wrinkle her forehead, her chin, her th...
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Today many celebrate the birthday (or the anniversary of the death) of one of the greatest painters in the history of art, Raphael Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520): the date of his birth is traced by most to April 6, 1483. And moreover, according t...
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Before I begin my review of the book La Tavola Doria by Louis Godart, published by Mondadori, I feel obliged to thank the author for quoting me in a passage of the book in which he discusses Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari, the events of...
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