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The Boy Selling Fish at Dusk: A Masterpiece by Ceruti at the Pitti Palace

The Boy Selling Fish at Dusk: A Masterpiece by Ceruti at the Pitti Palace

A sky shifting from pink to gray, the moment when the light of day gives way to twilight. In this twilight light, against a background devoid of architecture, we see a young boy smiling as he tips, with a sudden, decisive gesture, a woven basket onto...
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The Uffizi acquires a masterpiece by Giacomo Ceruti, the Moorish Beggar

The Uffizi acquires a masterpiece by Giacomo Ceruti, the Moorish Beggar

An important acquisition for the Uffizi Galleries: in fact, a masterpiece by Giacomo Ceruti (Milan, 1698 - 1767), the Moorish Beggar, enters the collection of the Florentine museum. The artist, famous for his depictions of the poor and humble, create...
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All the humanity of the poor by Giacomo Ceruti. What the Miseria&Nobiltà exhibition in Brescia looks like.

All the humanity of the poor by Giacomo Ceruti. What the Miseria&Nobiltà exhibition in Brescia looks like.

To think of eighteenth-century art, images of vast heavenly expanses, frivolous worldly amusements, large airy and terse halls, mirrors, gardens, wigs, feathers, and swings immediately come to mind. One tends to think less of an art that depicted the...
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Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti compared in an exhibition in Brescia

Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti compared in an exhibition in Brescia

The Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia is organizing an exhibition comparing Diego Velázquez and Giacomo Ceruti scheduled from November 26, 2021 to February 27, 2022. That between Velázquez and Ceruti is a closeness of intent that ...
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