A Madonna of Humility of great interest—and previously unseen—is the one painted by Zanino di Pietro, which the Giorgio Baratti antique gallery is presenting at the 34th edition of the Florence International Antiques Biennale ( the asking…
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Works and artists Ancient art Brands Gothic Medieval art Medieval art The ways of silence Urbino
Medieval man dwells within a tangle of symbols, lives by visions that lie between the earthly and the divine, conceives the universe according to an order that is not our own. In the mind of medieval man drowns all geometry; there are no…
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Exhibition reviews Ancient art Gothic Mantua Medieval art Pisanello
To give an idea of the uniqueness of an exhibition featuring Pisanello as its protagonist, it will suffice to recall that twenty-one years have passed since the last exhibition dedicated to him (at the National Gallery in London, in 2001)…
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A monographic exhibition dedicated to Ottaviano Nelli (Gubbio, c. 1370 - 1448-1449), one of the major Umbrian painters of the late Gothic period: this is the one that is scheduled from September 23, 2021 to January 9, 2022 in Gubbio, in…
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Works and artists Ancient art Gothic Medieval art Piedmont Vercelli
Giulio Carlo Argan wrote that Benedetto Antelami (Val d'Intelvi, c. 1150 - Parma, 1230) succeeded in reabsorbing, in the abbey church of Sant'Andrea in Vercelli, "all the Romanesque constructive culture into the subtlest Gothic doctrine."…
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