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Giuseppe Pagano (Parenzo / Porec 1896 - Mauthausen 1945). Palestrina Pietà : whole and details, Michelangelo Buonarroti. Rome 1938. Gelatin silver print. Florence, Biblioteca Berenson Photographic Archive , Villa I Tatti

Photography, Michelangelo and the “stone sickness” in his urine

  Since it was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century, photography has been looking at Michelangelo Buonarroti’s three-dimensional...

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Open for restoration: at the Oratorio di San Giovanni in Urbino for a rare sight on the frescoes by the Salimbeni bros

Built in 1365, the Oratorio di San Giovanni is one of the magnificent monuments that you come across when exploring...

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Art without theory suffers! Even at Frieze New York 2014

  Frieze New York will open in a few hours but, according to the new trend, some of the works...

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Have you ever looked at Piero della Francesca from this point of view?

  A few days ago we were in Urbino, and of course we visited the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at...

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Bergamo, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, wood inlays of the choir

Even the most protected historical building is the result of several eras of contemporary art

  When talking about works by contemporary artists in ancient contexts, a lot of controversies generally tend to come up....

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A letter to Unit+ architects now in residency at San Settimio to re-enact the possible utopia once called Operazione Arcevia

  Dear Unit+,   it was a pleasure meeting you at the Riserva Privata San Settimio, and experiencing the making...

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Ugo Mulas, “Marcel Duchamp”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli. On show at “Ugo Mulas. La fotografia”, museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia (until 14 july 2014)

A message from master Ugo Mulas to all the art trotters on Instagram

  The photographer Ugo Mulas has been not only a wit observer, but also a reliable interpreter of what happened...

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Jacopo Ligozzi (Verona 1547 - Frenze 1627), "Agave americana from a series of paintings done for Francesco I de 'Medici"

Jacopo Ligozzi, cataloging nature at the court of Francesco I

  From 27 May (until 28 September), the Galleria Palatina in Florence will host the first major exhibition dedicated to...

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Torbjorn Rodland, ACV09, 2009, silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 27.7 cm x 22.3 cm x 3 cm (10-7/8" x 8-3/4" x 1-3/16"). Courtesy the artist.

Mapping the comics trend at Pace London

    The upcoming exhibition “Everything falls faster than an anvil” at Pace London is not the last art cocktail mixing...

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ANDY WARHOL, Last Supper, 1986, Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen on canvas 102.1 x 102.1 cm (40.2 x 40.2 in); stamped signature and certified on verso by Frederick Hughes; estimate €6.711.409 - €8.948.545; online bidding on Paddle8 ends May 13 at 4:00 pm EST.

The art market’s last supper is going online according to Hiscox’s report

A few days ago the CEO of Christies’s, Steven Murphy, declared to the Wall Street Journal the auction house’s commitment...

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At the Gallery Weekend Berlin fifty shows are opening the same night: a time saving list is required!

  The 10th edition of the Gallery Weekend Berlin is starting next Friday, and those who need a break from art fairs’...

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Emerging outsiders: a tribute to Alessandro Franchi a century after his death

  In the Cathedral of Prato two of the main frescoes of the Italian Renaissance are preserved: the “Stories of...

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At the museum with the artist: Ditte Gantriis visits the Thordvaldsen in Copenhagen

by Stefano Pirovano

As you will learn from the artist’s web site, Ditte Gantriis lives in Copenhagen. We bumped into her wooden profiled...

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Paul Gauguin, Contes barbares (Barbarian Tales), 1902. Oil on canvas, 131,5 x 90,5 cm, © Museum Folkwang, Essen Photo: Museum Folkwang.

A particular affinity between Gauguin and Munch inspired by the show “Metamorphoses” currently at the MoMA

  Driven by the title of the exhibition that the MoMA is dedicating to Paul Gauguin’s experimental works on paper,...

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Daniel S. Loeb’s attack to “the Sotheby’s three” is a violent open letter, published on the web

    The last assault in the war for the control of Sotheby’s auction house is a letter dated 21...

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Catharine Ahearn, when the evolution in art is an error in the copying-fidelity

  Some time ago we bumped into Catharine Ahearn’s video posted on Raminken Crucible’s web site in occasion of her...

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In praise of Agnolo Gaddi’s most chic frescoes strip

  When you enter the Cathedral of Prato, the first span of the left nave is dedicated to the relic...

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At the show with the artist: Geoff Hands visits “Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner” in Margate

Artist and lecturer Geoff Hands’ reading of “Making painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner” currently at the Turner Contemporary, also...

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Mr. Falckenberg please choose: does every era get the art it deserves or is every work of art the child of its age?

    Some days ago we have discussed about the essay published one Mousse magazine by Jens Hoffmann. It follows...

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"Chiaravalle" abbey near Milan (Italy). Fresco with “Madonna and Child” (1512) painted by Bernardino Luini

Who is so brave to get closer to this charming Bernardino Luini’s?

Not far from Milan, there is a very picturesque little village, Chiaravalle Milanese, one of the first settlements of Cistercian...

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Art in novels: pinpointed one of Isaac Brest’s most enigmatic sources

by Stefano Pirovano

We had to visit two buildings under construction before understanding, but finally we have pinpointed the fragment of reality where...

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The Pecci reloaded: iconic Nio’s hardware almost ready, but the software is still to be written

  Prato’s major, Roberto Cenni, promises that the new addition to the “Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci” will open...

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More critics, less curators: should we read Jens Hoffmann’s cosmic pessimism in his “Art after the end of art” as a self-accuse?

  “Art after the end of art” is a short essay published by art writer and curator Jens Hoffmann on...

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Born again after seventeen years of hibernation: Prato opens its brand new Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

During the Renaissance Prato, not far from Florence, was a rich town. Not as rich as the lavish Florence, but...

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Ugo Mulas, “Jasper Johns”, New York, 1967. Fotografie Ugo Mulas © Eredi Ugo Mulas. All right reserved. Courtesy Archivio Ugo Mulas, Milano - Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano/Napoli

Art in the mirror with Giorgio Vasari, Ugo Mulas and Jasper Jones

  In the preface of his “Lives”, Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 – Firenze 1574) says that art began when someone...

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At Milan design week Marina Abramovich’s disturbing performance, with the kind help of Daniel Libeskind

  We strongly believe that design and art are very different from each other, and they shouldn’t be mixed, even...

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Gemaldegalerie’s director Bernd Wolfang Lindemann talks with Conceptual Fine Arts, in Berlin? No, at the Collezione Maramotti

  We haven’t meet Professor Bernd Wolfang Lindeman at the museum he directs, the National Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, but at...

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In dialogue with Grear Patterson, to remember that things, like artists, are not necessarily what they appear to be

  Grear Patterson solo exhibition at Ellis King in Dublin will open in a couple of days. Simply it will be...

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Parmigianino, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1524, oil on convex panel", 1524 ca., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

How to turn a self-portrait into a selfie? Just share it and add tags

by Antonio Carnevale

Selfie are casting a new light on self-portrait as well as questioning the boundaries between art history, psychology a sociology

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“A Pink Nude Seated ”, Henri Matisse (1935, Paris, Centre Pompidou)

Henri Matisse: form, sex and information

by Stefano Pirovano

Former Pompidou's deputy director Isabelle Monod Fontaine proves how the figure has been at the core of Henry Matisse entire...

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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 169.5 x 216.5 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

Art in novels: the responsive eye of novelist Donna Tartt reading the Rembrandt’s masterpiece

After Donna Tartt‘s description of one of the rare Carel Fabritius‘s canvases we posted two days ago in relation with...

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