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El Greco, “Christ embraced the cross”, detail, 1587-96, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

El Greco: in Madrid a tribute to the European genius, 400 years after his death

  Among the most original artists who worked in the second half of the sixteenth century is to be considered...

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From Michel Houellebeq an appropriate prelude to Avery Singer

  “The question of beauty is secondary in painting: the great painters of the past were considered such when they...

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Antoniazzo Romano, “Saint Sebastiano”, detail, Roma, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini

Out of the tourist flock: last days to visit Antoniazzo Romano’s solo show in Rome

    Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili better known as Antoniazzo Romano (Rome 1435/40 – 1508) was a central figure of the italian Renaissance. He was...

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Sebastian Black, Unique Newark left : Edible Manhattan, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, Brussels. photo credits : mark-woods.com

Sebastian Black, remembering of Giorgio Morandi and The Great Gatsby

  One of the first impression of Sebastian Black’s paintings is their Morandian coyness. Although some of them turn out...

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Carlo Saraceni (1579 – 1620), “San Bennone retrieves the keys to the city of Meissen”, detail - Rome, Church of Santa Maria dell’Anima

Carlo Saraceni, an emerging old master

  Carlo Saraceni was born in Venice around 1579, worked in Rome from circa 1598 to 1619 and died in...

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When The Exorcist spoke about Vermeer and Leonardo da Vinci

  William Friedkin, director of seminal horror movie “The Exorcist” (1973), chooses imperfect works by Vermeer and Leonardo Da Vinci...

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Respect to Gillo Dorfles, the oldest living art critic, 103

“One of the things that has always interested me and that interests me most is studying the person, ‘man’ as...

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Leo Gabin

Leo Gabin: shocking videos (with teens) at the service of traditional paintings

Ho Ho Click – Bleacherz and Teacherz from Leo Gabin on Vimeo.   Leo Gabin trio’s two-dimensional balanced accumulation of...

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Thanks to NSA and GCHQ Europeans don’t need confessionals anymore

  While Edward Snowden is still in Russia, an enquiry by the European parliament’s civil liberties committee condemned in the...

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Using old critic tools to read a new artwork would be a way to miss its novelty

  On the contrary, you could interpret it as a score to play, with all the kind of info it...

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