Amongst the roots of the relationship between form and information in art, there is to be pinpointed the book “Iconologia”...
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William Friedkin, director of seminal horror movie “The Exorcist” (1973), chooses imperfect works by Vermeer and Leonardo Da Vinci...
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“One of the things that has always interested me and that interests me most is studying the person, ‘man’ as...
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Ho Ho Click – Bleacherz and Teacherz from Leo Gabin on Vimeo. Leo Gabin trio’s two-dimensional balanced accumulation of...
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While Edward Snowden is still in Russia, an enquiry by the European parliament’s civil liberties committee condemned in the...
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On September 10th, 1554, the artist Tiziano Vecellio sent to the king of Spain, Philip II, the painting “Venus and...
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Today closes Adel Abdessemed’s solo show “L’Age d’Or” at Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar, but...
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What makes Torey Thornton’s mixed media two dimensional artworks so appealing isn’t the fact that they are colorful or apparently...
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Waiting for “Veronese: Magnificence in Renaissance“, the major show dedicated to Paolo Veronese, from March 19th to June 15th at...
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The organ on the right side (in cornu Epistolae) in Santa Maria della Passione church is by Gian Giacomo...
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A struggling young artist, commissioned to paint a portrait of an influential industrialist, learns in the process about himself and...
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On December 18, 2013, the new thirty rooms of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice have been inaugurated. Located in the...
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The Swiss artist Yoan Mudry is 24 years old and, according to his cv, he has been educated in Geneva,...
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“Crystal and flame: two forms of perfect beauty that we cannot tear our eyes away from, two modes of...
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The narrator of “The real thing” is a painter and this short novel, published in 1892, is dedicated to his...
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It is a fact that the b-side often helps to understand the a side. It happens to contemporary artworks as well as to the...
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Our first post of 2014 is writer Alain Elkann interviewing Fabrizio Moretti, gallery owner, collector, philantrophist and beloved publisher of...
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On the contrary, you could interpret it as a score to play, with all the kind of info it...
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“Fu Bramante persona molto allegra e piacevole, e si dilettò sempre di giovare a’ prossimi suoi. Fu amicissimo delle persone...
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Peter Harris is an art dealer, his wife Rebecca is the editor of an art magazine; Mizzy, the complicated...
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An Object of Beauty is a novel written by Steve Martin and published in 2010, a few months after another...
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Among the protagonists of Iberian art of the seventeenth century, the painter Zurbaran has known a great success for his...
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We have to be honest, there is no evidence that the epilogue of Blood meridian, by Cormack McCarthy (1985), was...
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Five aisles and 42 columns made of 1800 fir wood poles, branches and iron nails. The trees planted inside the...
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A part of the western world is at war. It is not a traditional war. It can’t be fought with...
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From December 21 until February 23, at the Museum of Palazzo Madama in Turin, you can see a masterpiece attributed...
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Does it extend my notion of beauty? What does it say about human beings and their destiny? How many of...
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Tintoretto worked at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco from 1564 to 1588, producing an impressive cycle of 52 paintings...
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While Paris will be soon enriched with the new Fondation Louis Vuitton’s building, another French driven museum is almost ready...
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Interpreting the art system has always been a hard task: no official and reliable information, a few certainties, many lies....
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Giacomo Pozzi Bellini (Florence 1907 – Paris 1990) is known for his work as a cinematographer for the documentary “The...
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