Echo and Narcissus. A young woman and a young man bound by myth. Two lives that intertwine, leading to a sad and tragic ending. Falling in love with an unrequited or impossible love is a source of anguish and death for them, yet neither has ever ce...
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Pablo Picasso’s*Guernica* is one of the most recognizable symbols of 20th-century art. But what truly makes a work of art a classic? And how long can its fame endure throughout history? In his new book, *Pablo Picasso’s Guernica: The Rise...
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Disturbing. Everything is extremely disturbing: that is the adjective I would use to describe George Grosz’s*Solar Eclipse *. Despite its title, the painting has nothing to do with the extraordinary and extremely rare astronomical phenomenon (the las...
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For nearly five hundred years, anyone who enters the Hall of Olympus at Villa Barbaro in Maser, in the province of Treviso, has had the impression of being watched—and, in a certain sense, protected—by the principal deities of the Greek pantheon. Ar...
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On the occasion of the tenth Lerici Music Festival—an initiative that, for the third year, presents an unprecedented dialogue between contemporary art and music, curated by Carlo Orsini and organized in collaboration with Galleria Continua— Villa Mar...
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A cup containing a magic potion, Ulysses and Circe: one of the most enigmatic episodesof the Odyssey takes place right in the sorceress’s home, where seduction, metamorphosis, and deception intertwine, captivating and inspiring the paintings of many...
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How big can an idea be? The mind can give birth to something infinitesimally small as well as something infinitesimally large. Even the most monumental work ever created can always be infinitely larger in concept, so that the idea itself manages to b...
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A profusion of gold floods Gustav Klimt’s *Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I* , sweeping through the entire composition like a river of precious metal and immersing the viewer in a dazzling vision. Gold is the undisputed protagonist of the entire...
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