On the youth of Andrea Mantegna, between the page and the stone, in the demystification of the antiquarian obsession
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Tõnis Vint is one of the pioneers of the post-World War II period. His art practice changed significantly the Estonian...
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Guariento di Arpo's response to the authority of his Padua predecessor Giotto is one where grace blends with Gothic style...
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We look at a quasi-group of thirteen artists and what has kept them together in the last five years, rising...
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Defendente Ferrari keenly sought refuge in dreams during an era that instead celebrated the triumph of reality.
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Here is an introduction to Ottaviano Nelli, the late Gothic painter from Gubbio who was famous for his rough mix...
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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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LOOM gallery and Fondazione Enrico Castellani re-enact the 1999 solo exhibition at Galleria Civica di Trento
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Many ordinary women saw Italian silent film divas as influences on daily dress and behaviour; much of this came from...
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Over the centuries, the wind has always been an iconographic presence for artists, touching upon fate, religion, chaos, love, and...
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Tableware designed by Giulio Romano invites us to re-consider the false binary between works of art and functional objects.
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Joseph Yoakum has us going between the mundane quality of things in front of us and the extra-ordinary quality of...
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Between failed aristocratic ambition and ungraspable styles, Paolo Pagani is the forgotten figure of Italian Baroque painting.
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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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Anatomical theatres were the literal and metaphorical houses of anthropocentrism. Are they resuscitating today?
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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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Labels such as "primitive," "naive," and "folk" can conceal prejudice and racism. Horace Pippin was a realist instead
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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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Flies buzz around a few Renaissance, Netherlandish and Baroque paintings, full of jokes, meanings, and hellish symbolism
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A journey to the printing atelier of Tallone Editore, where a Renaissance approach to publishing mix with the present
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