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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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Bergamo, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, wood inlays of the choir

Even the most protected historical building is the result of several eras of contemporary art

  When talking about works by contemporary artists in ancient contexts, a lot of controversies generally tend to come up....

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Emerging outsiders: a tribute to Alessandro Franchi a century after his death

  In the Cathedral of Prato two of the main frescoes of the Italian Renaissance are preserved: the “Stories of...

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Paul Gauguin, Contes barbares (Barbarian Tales), 1902. Oil on canvas, 131,5 x 90,5 cm, © Museum Folkwang, Essen Photo: Museum Folkwang.

A particular affinity between Gauguin and Munch inspired by the show “Metamorphoses” currently at the MoMA

  Driven by the title of the exhibition that the MoMA is dedicating to Paul Gauguin’s experimental works on paper,...

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Catharine Ahearn, when the evolution in art is an error in the copying-fidelity

  Some time ago we bumped into Catharine Ahearn’s video posted on Raminken Crucible’s web site in occasion of her...

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"Chiaravalle" abbey near Milan (Italy). Fresco with “Madonna and Child” (1512) painted by Bernardino Luini

Who is so brave to get closer to this charming Bernardino Luini’s?

Not far from Milan, there is a very picturesque little village, Chiaravalle Milanese, one of the first settlements of Cistercian...

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Art in novels: pinpointed one of Isaac Brest’s most enigmatic sources

by Stefano Pirovano

We had to visit two buildings under construction before understanding, but finally we have pinpointed the fragment of reality where...

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Parmigianino, "Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror", 1524, oil on convex panel", 1524 ca., Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

How to turn a self-portrait into a selfie? Just share it and add tags

by Antonio Carnevale

Selfie are casting a new light on self-portrait as well as questioning the boundaries between art history, psychology a sociology

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Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 169.5 x 216.5 cm. Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis,

Art in novels: the responsive eye of novelist Donna Tartt reading the Rembrandt’s masterpiece

After Donna Tartt‘s description of one of the rare Carel Fabritius‘s canvases we posted two days ago in relation with...

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Paolo Veronese: a sitcom director in the lush Venice of the XVI century

  Paolo Caliari, best known as Veronese, was born in 1528 in Verona where he completed major commissions for churches...

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While painting evolves children’s drawings are timeless

  The term Art Brut was first used by painter Jean Dubuffet to refer to a kind of art outside...

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Hans Cranach, “Hercules at the Court of Omphale”, 1537. Oil on panel. 57.5 x 85.3 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

This unconventional “Hercules” currently under restoration in Madrid is the oldest ancestor of Cindy Sherman

  The restoration of a painting by Lucas Cranach has just began at the museum Tyhssen Bornemitza in Madrid. The artwork is titled...

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Maarten van Heemskerck "Self-Portrait in Rome with the Colosseum" (1553), Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Maarten van Heemskerck; a double portrait separated and united by the shadows

Maarten van Heemskerck (Heemskerck 1498 – Haarlem 1574) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He lived in Rome, Italy, from...

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What do museums have in common with women? According to John Updike both of them suggest radiance, antiquity, mystery and duty

    We parted and I descended the marble stairs. Before pushing through the revolving doors, i looked back, and...

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Charles Harlan at Venus over Manhattan: is the essence of beauty in the way human beings protect it?

There are only ten days left to visit the solo show by Charles Harlan at Venus Over Manhattan, in New...

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Art in novels: from “Letters to a young novelist” by Mario Vargas Llosa to Rudolf Stingel’s alpine landscapes

Dear Friend, Ernest Hemingway says somewhere that at the beginning of his writing career it suddenly occur to him that...

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The TEFAF Art Market Report: there’s a reason for all those online art sales start-ups

  At 6.23 pm, when we start writing this article, the TEFAF is packed with people, and almost everyone is dressed...

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"Virgin and Child with Angels" (1452-1455 ca), oil on panel by Jean Fouquet, Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten (it will be in Madrid, Prado Museum until 25 May)

Jean Fouquet goes to Madrid with an introduction letter by Paul Cézanne

  Generally preserved at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp, the “Virgin and Child with Angels” by French...

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As a Futurist in New York he was completely useless! And fully disappointed back he went to his own country…

  Yesterday Conceptual Fine Arts visited the great show dedicated to the Italian Futurism at the Guggenheim museum, that we...

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Antonello da Messina active 1456; died 1479, “Saint Jerome in his Study” about 1475. © The National Gallery, London

The fluidity of ideas reveals a futuristic side in the Renaissance

  At the National Gallery in London soon there will be an exhibition that will offer a very conceptual approach...

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