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The Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, the Savoy residence of unexpected wonders

What is a deer doing on the dome of one of Piedmont's most fascinating Savoy residences ? Imposing and regal with its stage of well-branched antlers, the animal that has become the symbol of the Stupinigi Hunting Lodge stands out in the sky as if it ...
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In how many ways can silence be depicted? What the Hammershøi exhibition in Rovigo is like.

In what different places and in how many different ways can silence be depicted in a painting? In fact, silences are not all the same: there is the silence of domestic quiet, there is the silence of contemplation, the silence of anticipation of a joy...
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A Pierrot and a Harlequin: artists' children also disguised themselves

We have all been children and all of us at least once in our lives have dressed up at Carnival as we liked. I always loved dressing up as a princess or fairy, because even as a child I had a romantic, dreamy, fairy tale-loving soul, as I do now, and ...
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The Castle of Agliè, from the home of dukes and princes to the good of all

In Agliè Castle , time seems to have stood still at its last inhabitant, Duke Thomas of Savoy-Genoa, who sold it to the Italian state in 1939. Since then, the residence has become a public asset and is open to visitors as part of the circuit o...
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Wilhelm Brasse, the Auschwitz photographer who saved tens of thousands of images

Photographing all the prisoners arriving at the Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp: this was the task of Wilhelm Brasse, still remembered today as the "Auschwitz photographer." Three photos for each prisoner, and while he was shooting, Wi...
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Art in the Ludovisi papacy, among the shortest of the seventeenth century. What the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale looks like.

The most monumental altarpiece by Giovan Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino was commissioned to the Cento painter in 1621 by Pope Gregory XV, born Alessandro Ludovisi, for the head altar of the north aisle of St. Peter's Basilica, where in 1606 the...
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Correggio's Adoration of the Child: an intimate and universal scene of the miracle of the Nativity

There is all the essence of Christmas, understood as birth, in the Madonna in Adoration of the Child by Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534) from his hometown in the lower Reggio area. An intimate and collected scene but at...
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Niki de Saint Phalle, total modern artist. What the exhibition at Mudec in Milan looks like.

Topical, captivating and complete: it is with these three adjectives that I would define the anthological exhibition that Mudec - Museo delle Culture in Milan dedicates to Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1930 - San Diego, 2002), the French-A...
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