The debate on the intersection of art and science has experienced a significant acceleration in recent years in exploring the aesthetic possibilities offered by emerging technologies, as evidenced, one example above all, by the section The Unfinished...
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Almost half of what is preserved at the Brera Art Gallery is due to the ideas and taste of a man, Andrea Appiani, who was well regimented within the Napoleonic bureaucratic apparatus. Right from the start: as early as 1796, the year of Napoleon's arr...
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It could have been titled Les Italiens de Paris the Belle Époque exhibition currently running at Palazzo Blu in Pisa until April 7, 2026, and indeed the subtitle reads "Italian Painters in Paris in the Age of Impressionism." In fact, the prota...
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An exhibition on Georges de la Tour is already an event even before it opens. And the one that has been running since mid-September at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris(Georges de la Tour. Entre ombre et lumière) was announced ...
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The history of Italian pointillism passes through Genoa. Pass through Genoa the social unrest that would later spill over into the arts. Passing through Genoa were the first Symbolist hotbeds that animated Italian painting in the latter part of the 1...
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On September 27, 2023, a painting depicting two saints, a bishop and a portrait of the patron made its appearance at theMillon auction held in Cremona: it was the only surviving fragment of Boccaccio Boccaccino's so-called Fodri Altarpiece. Also know...
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Caps jumping, splashing, flying in all directions above and below the Alps. They celebrated, the lords of contemporary art. They've kept the finest bottles chilled and popped them at that time of year when the hordes of pilgrims, devotees, enthusiast...
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The urge to know our origins and to cherish the memory of the past has accompanied man since his earliest days. From the earliest burials enriched by objects belonging to ancestors to the recovery of vestiges and monuments, every civilization has sou...
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It is surprising that there is little or no talk in Italy about the muscular exhibition that the Louvre has organized to reconstruct the story of Jacques-Louis David exactly two hundred years after his death. In terms of completeness and volume of ma...
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Photography, since its origins, has invited experimentation. Overlaps, overexposures, technical accidents that turn into new expressive codes, unforeseen derivations of the main language. Man Ray was an absolute master of these discoveries, starting ...
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Certain documentary-style shots, besides standing out in isolation in the teeming iconographic firmament of recent reportage history for the eloquence of a phenomenon effectively risen to noumenon, are candidates to become staples of photography tout...
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Wanting to choose one work that can offer an effective synthesis of the 18th Rome Quadrennial, Fantastica, which opened a few days ago at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, I would not have many doubts and would immediately point to a painting by Siro Cu...
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With the Marc Chagall exhibition, the spirit of Ferrara, secularly tending to metamorphoses, to the placid or adventurous sur-natural, enters its specific world, delightful and imbued with culture, which cannot fail to gracefully recall our modernity...
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Exactly seventy-five years have passed since Francesco Arcangeli wished the arrival of a "good day" for Simone Cantarini as well, "a name unknown to most, the name of a short-lived schoolboy of the far more famous Guido Reni." And it is still difficu...
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It is safe to assume that John Ruskin had not grasped the paradox inherent in the compliment he had intended for Blessed Angelico when he wrote that Fra' Giovanni da Fiesole formed a class of his own, meaning that "he was not an artist proper, but an...
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Some films become cult films because they come out at the right time, first intercepting certain epochal and existential ferments still latent with an original style destined to set the standard. One of these is Amores Perros (153 minutes), the debut...
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