The “Resurrection”, the mural painting preserved in the Museo Civico of Sansepolcro, is one of Piero della Francesca’s masterpieces. Giorgio...
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A few days ago we were in Urbino, and of course we visited the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche at...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art , thanks to a collaboration with the Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice and the Galleria Nazionale...
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The current show of Olafur Eliasson "In Our Time" at Palazzo Strozzi is the ground onto which to build a...
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Hair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story
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Read about artists' obsession with dust, from enigmatic depictions in 16th and 17th century painting to post-war imagery and symbols
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The Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is the crystalline symbol of his shattered dream: an orderly word expressed in numbers
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Phaethon changes sex, the gods are sick, the Earth is burned, the seas are drained: the zodiac is all these...
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Wrong, defective, crooked perspectives: they were not painters' mistakes, but ways to represent thoughts and mysteries in the Renaissance.
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The answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...
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The evolution of painting could also be captured by chasing shadows. An itinerary among five less known masters to be...
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In preparation for Walter Pfeiffer's upcoming solo show in Milan (with Galerie Gregor Staiger), we went with the 73-year-old artist...
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He loved castles, cats, the East and, above all, painting. That's why he insisted art critics to write about his...
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We had asked a security guard where the ‘Art in Dialogue’ exhibit was situated, as it is a temporary arrangement....
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Taking inspiration from what the introductory flyer suggests, we decided to visit the recent exhibition of Paul Delvaux at...
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Among the 50 artworks the exhibition “Perugino Master of Raphael” gathers together at the extraordinary Musée Jacquemart-André, in Paris...
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Which artworks Paul Virilio did have in mind when giving the below answer to Sylvére Lotringer (The accident of...
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The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...
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As Mr. Simchowitz has noticed, the pyramid recently presented by Peter Sutherland in occasion of his solo show at The Still...
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Santa Maria Maggiore’s Cathedral in Rome has been the first Roman church dedicated to the Holy Mary. A legend...
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