At a time when madness was still seen as an obscure and stigmatized phenomenon, Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791-Paris, 1824) tackled the subject with rigor and depth. We are talking about the same Géricault who, yes, had led Fren...
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Until Feb. 14, 2026, the Sede di Rappresentanza Castagneto Banca 1910 in Livorno, Via Rossini 2, is hosting the exhibition Nel Novecento di Giovanni Bartolena, tra innovazione e riflessione sul magistero fattoriano, sponsored by Fondazione Castagneto...
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We are in Calabria, a land of millennia-old history and traditions, and in the footsteps of Mimmo Rotella, an artist of international prominence born in Catanzaro in 1918. His creative "genius," recognized among the most extraordinary minds on the co...
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An important acquisition for the Musée d'Orsay in Paris: a masterpiece by Gustave Caillebotte (Paris, 1848 - Gennevilliers, 1894), Portrait de l'artiste au chevalet ("Portrait of the Artist at the Easel"), which occupies a central and unique p...
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It was Feb. 20, 1909, when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti leapt onto the front page of Le Figaro, after first publishing in a number of Italian newspapers (starting with the Gazzetta dell'Emilia on Feb. 5) a text that still vibrates like a battering ram, ...
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Leonardo da Vinci's famous maxim "sad is that disciple who does not advance his master" seems to have guided the students of Giuseppe Baldini (Livorno, 1807 - 1876), a Leghorn artist who imparted the first rudiments in painting to important names in ...
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A man bent over a drawing board as the whole world seems to be sliding into the abyss. In his hand a small nib dipped in ink: this is how Arthur Szyk (Łódź, 1894 - New Canaan, Cunnecticut, 1951) portrays himself on the title page of Ink and Bl...
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Empoli, summer of 1925: a small room located at the end of a vegetable garden on Via Tripoli becomes the center of gravity for a new generation of creative artists and returns to us today the image not of a motionless and silent province, like the on...
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