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Restorer Umberto Senserini reveals outcome of Piero della Francesca’ Resurrection cleaning

by Antonio Carnevale

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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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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Piero della Francesca, “Saint Jerome and a Supplicant”, ca. 1460–64?, Tempera and oil on wood, from Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

In New York, four personal encounters with Piero della Francesca

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art , thanks to a collaboration with the Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice and the Galleria Nazionale...

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A history of light in Renaissance art through Olafur Eliasson

by Arturo Galansino

The current show of Olafur Eliasson "In Our Time" at Palazzo Strozzi is the ground onto which to build a...

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Sandro_Botticelli Simonetta Vespucci

Hair air style from Middle Age to Botticelli

by Silvia Tomasi

Hair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story

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Jeff Koons, “New Hoover Deluxe Shampoo Polishers

Symbol by symbol, dust piles up

by Silvia Tomasi

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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Luca Pacioli Summa

Luca Pacioli and the mathematical Renaissance

by Antonio Carnevale

The Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is the crystalline symbol of his shattered dream: an orderly word expressed in numbers

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To the zodiac and back

by Silvia Tomasi

Phaethon changes sex, the gods are sick, the Earth is burned, the seas are drained: the zodiac is all these...

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la città ideale Urbino dettaglio

A mistaken perspective on the Renaissance

by Antonio Carnevale

Wrong, defective, crooked perspectives: they were not painters' mistakes, but ways to represent thoughts and mysteries in the Renaissance.

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calder comb MoMa collection

What are combs for besides untying knots?

by Silvia Tomasi

The answer to combs collecting lies in the artists' creativity, from the Etruscans, to Füssli, Man Ray, Picasso, Dalí, Calder...

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Francesco-del-Cossa particolare

What do you know about Renaissance shadow?

by Antonio Carnevale

The evolution of painting could also be captured by chasing shadows. An itinerary among five less known masters to be...

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Walter Pfeiffer, an interview with the pioneer of queer photography

by Piero Bisello

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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Balthus: Beyeler honors Klossowski the younger

by Marta Galli

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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Duccio and Sir Anthony Caro handling the same space, currently at the National Gallery

We had asked a security guard where the ‘Art in Dialogue’ exhibit was situated, as it is a temporary arrangement....

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History of art in a personal theatre: seminal Paul Delvaux’s retrospective at the Musée D’Ixelles

  Taking inspiration from what the introductory flyer suggests, we decided to visit the recent exhibition of Paul Delvaux at...

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At “Perugino master of Raphael” two paintings seeking for a conceptual reading

  Among the 50 artworks the exhibition “Perugino Master of Raphael” gathers together at the extraordinary Musée Jacquemart-André, in Paris...

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What is the danger of globalization? There is no perspective

  Which artworks Paul Virilio did have in mind when giving the below answer to Sylvére Lotringer (The accident of...

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Libro d’Ore di Lorenzo de’ Medici, “Annunciation”, Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v. (© Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ms. Ashb. 1874, c. 13v . Su concessione del MiBACT)

An instructive exhibition dedicated to all those contemporary art collectors who are inflating the bubble

  The upcoming exhibition “The fortunes of the primitives” (at the Galleria dell’Accademia, in Florence, from June 24 to December...

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Graham Green to prove that art is not a progression, but an addition creating a culture

  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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Francesco Mancini, Natività, XVIII cent., Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.

At Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome to realize that no beauty can flourish if flourishing is forbidden

  Santa Maria Maggiore’s Cathedral in Rome has been the first Roman church dedicated to the Holy Mary. A legend...

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