For over forty years, art historian Fernando Mazzocca searched for a painting by Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 – Milan, 1882) that he had come to fear had been destroyed. The composition of the work was known thanks to an engraving…
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AMART, the Milan antiques fair organized by the Associazione Antiquari Milanesi and PROMO.TER Confcommercio Milano, is now in its eighth edition. It has become a staple of the Milanese fall season and is the last majorantiques fair of the…
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Take a ring, cut it, twist one of the two ends, and close it again. The result is a ribbon that no longer has an inside or an outside—a continuous surface that can be traversed without ever encountering an edge. Max Bill (Winterthur, 1908…
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A portrait of the daughter of Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun ( Paris, 1755–1842), painted during her years of exile in Italy, which has remained in a private collection for over two centuries and is now set to be…
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Thinking through pain means demanding that philosophy and writing take on the burden of that which resists all synthesis. In *Negative Dialectics*, Adorno asserts that physical suffering is the criterion of all truth, because it leads to…
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The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a marble bust depicting Rosa Taddei (Trento, 1799 – Rome, 1869), an Italian actress and poetess portrayed in 1826 by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (Copenhagen, 1770–1844)…
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In 1875, Giovanni Fattori spent a month in Paris—the only time he ever set foot there. He wrote two long letters to his brothers-in-law, brimming with wonder: streets as wide as squares, steamboats crisscrossing the city, carriages and…
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A new self-portrait by Andrea Appiani (Milan, 1754–1817) has been added to the neoclassical painter’s catalog: The painting, dated to 1810–1811 and characterized by an intense gaze directed straight at the viewer, will be…
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