Works and artists

If Jupiter paints butterflies: the magical painting by Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi had a boundless imagination: his whimsical, versatile, ingenious, imaginative flair is among the most celebrated in the history of art, and few in his era could come close to his visionary imagination. A myth, a literary text, a biblical ...
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Eight works of art to celebrate the horror of Halloween Day

When we talk about Halloween, it is impossible not to analyze art that cites themes ofhorror and the macabre. Especially during the Gothic period of the nineteenth century, a fright narrative developed that influenced literature, with authors such as...
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From Samhain to Halloween. Five witch sabbaths in art history.

Witchcraft and the sabbath have influenced art throughout the centuries, arousing in humans the classic images of mystery, fear and transgression. Flemish paintings and Renaissance engravings portray witches as characters of folk beliefs, but also as...
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The human being is organic and artificial and coexists with these two aspects. The art of Paolo Grassino

Paolo Grassino, one of the most interesting contemporary Italian sculptors, proposes high-impact research that makes use of the most varied materials, from concrete to polystyrene, from wood to rubber, investigating themes such as the precariousness ...
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The Treasure of the Grand Dukes and the collecting of the Tuscan court

The visitor who, being in Florence, wants to get as complete an idea as possible of the collecting interests of the Tuscan court in the 290 years of the Grand Duchy's life, cannot limit himself to admiring the bombastic pictorial masterpieces of the ...
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Ten things to know about Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (New York, 1928 - Darien, 2011) was one of the leading exponents ofAbstract Expressionism, a movement that dominated the American art scene from the 1940s to the 1960s, and which saw the emergence of such notable figures as Jackso...
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The Lilac Room: an immersive masterpiece by ERK14 at the latest edition of ArtVerona

In the world ofcontemporary art, where the boundaries between real and virtual are becoming increasingly blurred, The Lilac Room, the new project by artist ERK14, curated by Raffaella A. Caruso and presented in collaboration with Eidos Gallery on the...
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Is there heat and eros behind op art? The case of Marina Apollonio

Behind the work of Marina Apollonio, a leading artist in internationaloptical and kinetic art, unimaginable hot urges stir. This is what Marianna Gelussi writes in her essay that opens the catalog of the exhibition Marina Apollonio. Beyond the Circle...
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Death and Rebirth. Among the Halls of the Fortress of Fontanellato.

Misinformation, easy to find in some early twentieth-century articles, reports that a masterpiece by Parmigianino, the portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale that today can be admired at the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, was seized by the Farnese...
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From Paolo Guinigi to Lorenzo Trenta: patronage in fifteenth-century Lucca

The ancient history of Lucca is closely linked to the Guinigi, one of the most important and influential families of merchants and bankers in the city. Consider, for example, the famous tower that bears their name, the Guinigi Tower, erected at the ...
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Michelangelo's Madonna and other masterpieces at Our Lady's Church in Bruges

The city of Bruges is a must-see for all art enthusiasts on a trip to Belgium. The capital of West Flanders is a resplendent jewel, with its medieval old town that has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, embellished with sumptuous palaces, ...
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In Montmartre, inside the apartment where Suzanne Valadon, the painter of the infernal trio lived.

On the second floor of the Musée de Montmartre, a museum I recently visited during a stay in Paris almost by chance, since it is not (fortunately or unfortunately) on the usual tourist circuits of the French capital, I had a pleasant surprise:...
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Roberto Cuoghi's art, a challenge to staticity

Contemporary art, by its very nature, is a terrain of constant experimentation and redefinition of the boundaries of self and creativity. Few artists have been able to explore these boundaries with the intensity and radicality of Roberto Cuoghi, a ma...
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The Palau de la Música Catalana, a masterpiece of modernism

In the heart of Barcelona stands a masterpiece that is a symbol of Catalan modernism, often overshadowed by better-known works such as the Sagrada Família or Casa Batlló, but of equal, extraordinary beauty. The site of a cultural renais...
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The lands of Pisa in the paintings of the Macchiaioli.

Landscape painting represents one of the most heartfelt subjects of the Macchiaiolo movement, which has left us pieces of great intensity on the genre that can testify to that new approach that the Tuscan group, proponents of a reborn realism, was ab...
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The Lion of St. Mark was a Chinese monster: what are the implications of the Venetian discovery

La news is so surprising and unsettling that, a week after the announcement (which took place June 11 an international conference in Venice) the world of historians and art historians still kept comments to a minimum. The statue of the lion of St. Ma...
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