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The typographic utopia of Tallone Editore

by Antonio Carnevale

A journey to the printing atelier of Tallone Editore, where a Renaissance approach to publishing mix with the present

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Who was Jef Geys?

by Dirk Snauwaert

A brief overview of late Belgian artist Jef Geys, spanning key projects, approaches, methodologies, and complexities

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"Valet de deniers", Anonyme, Milan

Tarot cards: the pocket-sized Renaissance

by Silvia Tomasi

First recorded in 15th century Italy, tarot cards have reached today's collections following strange paths and through a few discoveries.

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herman

In memory of Herman Daled, beyond his collection

by Catherine Mayeur

A few weeks after his passing, we delve into Herman Daled's seminal involvement with art, an engagement that went much...

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Barockhaus, Görlitz

Ancient books, an introduction

by Antonio Carnevale

Niche within a niche, ancient books from the Renaissance are very much alive today, torn between objects of fetish and...

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Authentic or not? A brief guide, inspired by Liubov Popova and the Ludwig

by Gianluca Poldi*

Scientific analysis can spot fakes, but only up to a certain point. It needs a rigorous and transparent process.

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Sketches of revolution: back to Zurich’s Strauhof in the 1970s

by Bice Curiger

From the show at the Strauhof in Zurich that chronicled the genesis of Swiss counter-culture, here is a chronology of...

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Botticelli's Portrait Sothebys

Sandro Botticelli: portraiture as a lost paradise

by Antonio Carnevale

Botticelli's portraits bring us to the golden age of his life, preluding his dramatic fall into debts and oblivion.

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Luca Giordano, Fapresto, Famolto, Proteo

by Silvia Tomasi

Ribera, Caravaggio, Rubens, Dürer, Veronese and Titian revive in the art of Luca Giordano, turned into elements for a new...

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Gaimbattista Tiepolo, “Martyrdom of San Bartolomeo"

Giambattista Tiepolo: escaping the museum room

by Antonio Carnevale

Tiepolo's painting lives outside museums, inseparable from the places for which it was created. Here is a comprehensive map.

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Antelami. Settembre

Benedetto Antelami: praise of gravity

by Silvia Tomasi

Benedetto Antelami carves the most spiritual and quotidian figures in the heaviest Medieval stone, founding blocks of cathedrals and cults.

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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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Gustave Van de Woestyne, The Children's Table, 1919. Courtesy of Museum Van Buuren, Brussels.

The quotidian avant-garde of Gustave Van de Woestyne

by Evelyn Simons

Symbolism and everyday blend in the work of Belgian master Gustave Van de Woestyne, a modernist who was able to...

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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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Adriaen Coorte Rijksmuseum

The symbolic, erotic, and lunar asparagus

by Silvia Tomasi

Through Flemish painting, Manet, Max Ernst, Andreas Gursky, and Hannah Levy, we start to believe that the asparagus has feelings...

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Luigi Zuccheri, Untitled (Cespuglio con faina, calabrone e frate), 1950/55, tempera on board, 40x45 cm.

Luigi Zuccheri, the accidental modernist

by Sofia Silva

A 20th century, ancient Venetian painter who found himself modern by chance, Luigi Zuccheri pushed localism to the limit.

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Antonello Cristo alla colonna

The figure of the rope between gore, eros and faith

by Silvia Tomasi

Goya, Lady Gaga, Man Ray, Giulio Paolini, Georg Baselitz, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Antonello & co., all tied together to...

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Veronese part

Why take an artwork from the place it was made for?

by Antonio Carnevale

Bringing works of art out of museums and back to their places of origin is what we should do: the...

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Diego Perrone

No leap is ever into the void

by Silvia Tomasi

A saga of artist jumps through the work of Hsieh, Mureșan, de Dominicis, Perrone, in the wake of Yves Klein's...

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Velázquez and why even masterpieces need titles

by Antonio Carnevale

La Meninas is Velázquez's most famous masterpiece. However, another of his paintings shows us how words can change our view...

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