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In Florence for a very close encounter with the only sculpture Giambologna made for himself

by Stefano Pirovano

Among the many outstanding works of art preserved in the Florentine church called “della Santissima Annunziata” a place of honour...

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Back in 1965: artist Pietro Consagra sheds light on some shamelessly phallic architectural elements

by Stefano Pirovano

Pietro Consagra, an artist no less important than Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri or Fausto Melotti for Post War World II...

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Carlo Portelli: a seminal exhibition retraces his mastership

by Stefano Pirovano

The first comprehensive retrospective exhibition dedicated to Renaissance artist Carlo Portelli opened a few days before Christmas in Florence, at...

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Domenico Ghirlandaio’s first last supper emerges from 12 years of hibernation

by Stefano Pirovano

After an extremely long restoration process, mainly due to economic problems and bureaucracy, the rarefied Last Supper painted by Domenico...

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Once upon a time in Palermo, when Islam and Christianity were walking side by side

by Antonio Carnevale

Violence, murders, slaughters of innocent people, but also monuments and works of art, especially in Palmira, destroyed by human hands,...

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Andrea Del Sarto prised at the Frick but his masterpiece is yet to be discovered

by Antonio Carnevale

It is a moment of international glory for Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), important Italian Renaissance painter, master of renown artists...

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Paris Tableau 2015, a sensual option for the lateral art collector

by Stefano Pirovano

A naked young man in perfect shape (Bacchus) stares at a glowing almost naked woman whose head is expressing a...

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Art collector Luigi Magnani: “I am not friend with antique dealers, I don’t attend auctions, I don’t visit exhibitions”

by Antonio Carnevale

The Family of the Infante Don Luis (1783-84), a core work in Goya’s production currently on show at the National...

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New York: the missed Donatello’ is likely not alone

by Stefano Pirovano

This afternoon, at Moretti Fine Arts in New York, the lost wooden Spiritello that experts have recently attributed to Donatello...

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On some forgotten photos of Andy Warhol and his legacy as an art collector

by Antonio Carnevale

In 1977 Aurelio Amendola is a 30-year-old photographer fond of portraying artists. He has already captured Marino Marini and Giorgio...

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With Laura Biagiotti visiting her private collection of futurist Giacomo Balla

Not far from Rome, just half an hour by car, in the Comune of Guidonia Montecelio, there is a elegant...

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That ancient Greek Slave who Hiram Powers turned young through a chain

  Copying styles or interpreting themes coming from Ancient Greece has been the business of countless artists for the last...

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500 years anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch’ death calls for this rare writing by Dino Buzzati

With a meaningful “Welcome home, Jheronimus!”, the Jheronimus Bosch 500 Foundation (JB500) announces the return of a large part of...

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Art in novels: Utz, by Bruce Chatwin

by Stefano Pirovano

Do images demand their own destruction? Here is what Bruce Chatwin and Kaspar Utz has to tell us about art...

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Focus on Brazil: in the long term Eliseu Visconti wins if Europe makes war

Almost unknown to Italian art historians, despite he was born near Salerno – precisely in Giffoni Valle Piana –, Eliseo...

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A 500 year old proto-museum run by an art-advisor: the case of polymath Jacopo Strada

It is recent news that Qatar intends to reconvert an enormous flour mill on the waterfront of Doha Bay into...

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Frescos by Moretto discovered in Milan following the form&info pattern

Until some weeks ago, when aspiring art historian Federico Giani had the opportunity to scrutinise the documents preserved in the...

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An old trick that never fails: space production from Raphael to Gober

  At the moment there is no definition for that kind of three-dimension artworks conceived to directly involve architecture or,...

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Can’t you choose between Sp Arte, Art Dallas and MiArt? Question 400-year-old dealer Daniel Nijs

  Today more than ever art fairs are the ultimate celebration of the art market and dealers. In the occasion...

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Piero di Cosimo’s ecological fire: a key for his giant retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Washington

  There is always a morbid pleasure in speculating about the reasons why an artist made a particular decision in...

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