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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, "Head of Medusa", detail, 1597 ca., Florence, Uffizi Gallery

Caravaggio’s Med: from the far east a conceptual solution to an old iconographic problem

  The “Head of Medusa” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (Uffizi Gallery, Florence) is an example of the parade shields...

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Harold Ancart: an introduction to the info-free painting

  The name of the Belgian artist Harold Ancart is at the moment on the wishing list of many collectors,...

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The software engineer who programmed the conceptual side of the Italian Renaissance art was a banker

  The starting point for a conceptual approach to Renaissance art could be pinpointed in the flowering of the Neo-Platonic...

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Simon Fujiwara, the artist who steals the roses of the Centre Pompidou

  Simon Fujiwara is a brilliant storyteller. His beautiful sculpture titled “New Pompidou”, currently on show at the Centre Georges...

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A dialogue with Dominic Samsworth, who dialogues with abandonments and surroundings

  Dominic Samsworth has just finished his period of residency at the Still House Group in New York. He was...

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Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino are coming, but be careful please!

We have received this pic a few minutes ago. It has been taken at Palazzo Strozzi during the set-up of...

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“The reliable man”, directed by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, starring Giuseppe Giani

  A few weeks ago we were in Volpedo, where we visited the perfectly preserved studio of Giuseppe Pellizza, a...

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Peter Sutherland, Bonfire 4, 2014. Inkjet on perforated vinyl adhered to OSB, 72 x 48 inches.

Why the Still House’s strikes differ from Fontana, Burri and César

  Among the recent attempts to enhance the connection between contemporary art and the art by dead artists, we have...

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“Annunciation”, detail, Andrea Previtali, early XVI century, Meschio, Vittorio Veneto, Treviso, Church of santa Maria Annunziata

Andrea Previtali: beyond the religious matter his masterpiece blossoms with subjects

  There is a particular artist whom we would like to draw your attention to, that is Andrea Previtali (Berbenno,...

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The room of fabric in the civic Museum of Modena

A gold mine of inspiration for any tailor or contemporary fashion addicted (to be found in Modena)

In the civic museum of Modena, there is a room that preserves the nineteenth-century layout of a wide selection of...

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Swabian “Portrait of a Woman of the Hofer Family”, about 1470, Oil on silver fir - The National Gallery, London © The National Gallery, London

How can an artwork be ugly in some periods and strikingly beautiful in others?

  There are some shows which are able to maintain the rigor of scientific studies while offering to the general...

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Fortunato Depero, Motociclista, solido in velocità (Biker, Solid at Speed), 1923. Oil on canvas, © 2013 Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York/ SIAE, Rome.

Fortunato Depero opens the new Centre for Italian Modern Art in New York

  While the seminal exhibition dedicated to the Italian Futurism is going to inaugurate tomorrow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...

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Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci; Pontorme, Empoli 1494 - Florence 1557), "Saint Jerome Penitent”, about 1529-1530, oil on canvas, 105 x 80 cm. Hannover, Hannover Landesmuseum Niedersächsisches.

That misanthrope obsessed with health, hygiene and sexual abstinence called Pontormo

  From 8 March to 20 July 2014, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will host the exhibition “Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino....

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Type or masterpiece? When the size is the main variable

A couple of days ago, Christie’s international head of postwar and contemporary art, Brett Gorvy, told to the French financial...

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Rodolfo Siviero with a recovered work by Pontormo

Rodolfo Siviero: a 007 in the service of the Italian old masters

Here is how during the Second World War Rodolfo Siviero saved many Italian art treasures from the Nazi, and where...

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John Water, Playdate, 2006. Courtesy of Sprueth Magers, Berlin.

What if Michael Jackson and Charles Manson had met each other before their lives went wrong?

  Who can play the role of the genius better than John Waters in the art world? Probably no one,...

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Monumental Cemetery of Pisa. The restorers are relocating the frescoes by Benozzo Gozzoli ("The construction of the Tower of Babel"). The artist was working in the cemetery from 1468 to 1483.

A five star restaurant for bacteria is saving the Cemetery of Pisa

  The Cemetery of Pisa is being reborn. Founded in 1277 to house the sarcophagi from the Roman period, the...

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Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici. Circle of painters active in the Studiololo of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence

Do you know who I am?

Francesco I de’ Medici (Florence 1541 – Poggio a Caiano, 1587) was one of the finest patrons in the history...

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“Small differences make all the difference”, also for the upcoming Julia Rommel’ solo at Bureau

  We believe these lines from Kirk Varnedoe’s book “Picture of nothing” (Mellow Lecture, 2003) to be the perfect introduction...

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Thinking Cézanne as an open source (now in Madrid)

  The exhibition “Cézanne Site / Non-Site”, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (until 16 May) represents a good opportunity to...

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At the centre, Quarto Stato's sketches, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo's studio, Volpedo, Italy.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo in The Still House

  It takes less than an hour driving from Milan to reach Volpedo, but international tourists and art lovers don’t...

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Would you buy a bond from an art critic?

The Contemporary Art day sale at Phillips has just finished a few minutes ago, and the market’s traders are already at work...

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“Ixion”, Cornelisz van Haarlem, Oil on canvas, 192 x 152 cm, 1588, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

The revenge of the Body Art stems from Tiziano and Ribera (now at the Prado)

  At the Museo Nacional del Prado, until 4 May, you can visit the show “The Furias. From Titian to...

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Ayan Farah, Alvar, 2103, 180 x 130 cm.

Ayan Farah’s soft, light and transparent self-recording

Ayan Farah was born 1978 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Exposed until the 7th of March at Bugada&Gargnel in Paris, Farah’s...

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Master Paroto, "Madonna and Child with Saints", 1447, Oil on canvas, 131 x 200 cm, detail, Brescia, collection CAB Foundation

Master Paroto and the origin of his quirky sweetness

  The Polyptych by Master Paroto, “Madonna and Child with Saints,” 1447, is a work of great charm: for its...

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Philippe Parreno in conversation with Carlos Basualdo at the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi, Venice.

At the Teatrino of Palazzo Grassi Philippe Parreno reveals his affinity with Philip K. Dick

  From our perspective, the essence of the conversation between artist Philippe Parreno and curatorCarlos Basualdo put up last Thursday...

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Seminal masterpieces by Mantegna to inspire the display of the new Accademia’s space in Venice

  After visiting the new 3500 squared meters bakery-style space of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice – that to us...

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Who can identify the artist?

  Last night a friend showed us this charming artwork. Take a close look at the Christ’s crossed arms and...

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Helen Marten, installation view at Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2014.

Helen Marten solo at Sadie Coles: the backstage of a visual itinerary

  Information runs fast on the web, and sometimes free, also in the instance of the current Helen Marten’s solo...

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Murillo vs. Smith: 14 artworks soon under the hammer, check the ingredients before eating!

  A few days ago Jerry Saltz – alias Jerry the Fox – wrote on Twitter: “idiot collectors fighting over...

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Oscar Tuazon, A home, 2014, installation view, Galerie Eva Presehuber, Zurich.

Oscar Tuazon solo in Zürich: a home, after a home, after a home…

  In 2009 Oscar Tuazon’s home in Paris was partially modified by some structures made by the artist himself, especially...

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