Who is Bruno Zanardi

The aesthetics of the bolt

In recent days one of today's most important Italian poets, Valerio Magrelli, published an alarming article on the increasing number of contemporary art sculptures made of all kinds of materials and in random and more or less useless forms that are n...
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The flood of skills: a story that starts with conservation

In the face of the environmental tragedies that increasingly strike Italy - these days the fourth flood in two years in part of Emilia, including Bologna - with deaths, missing people, thousands homeless, hundreds of millions in damages and so on, I ...
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What could be the trump card of the new minister Giuli

Many violent controversies have stirred the waters of the Ministry of Culture in recent days. Controversies with which the work of the two most recent ministers, Gennaro Sangiuliano and Dario Franceschini, has been stigmatized, and which have resulte...
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In the pleasure dome

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, and after the article written by Francis Haskell, the one written by Alberto Arbasino for the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's...
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Correggio and its importance for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, the article written by Francis Haskell in the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's frescoes in the dome of San Giovanni in Parma. ...
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More on Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Parma

As already written in the December 31, 2023issue of "Finestre sull'Arte," in the 1980s Parma was becoming a small restoration capital in Italy. The then Vicar General of the Diocese, Monsignor Franco Grisenti, a priest with great organizational skill...
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Giotto at the airport? The real issue is our relationship with heritage

I am asked by "Finestre Sull'Arte" for an opinion on the display at Fiumicino airport of three large panels of the stained-glass window that originally stood at the end of the right aisle of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. Erratic panels tha...
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The restoration of the Basilica Ulpia? Not exactly exciting

Much is being said these days about the completion of the work by which a small part of the colonnade of the Basilica Ulpia that had been lying on the ground for centuries and centuries in the area of the Imperial Fora in Rome and the steps behind it...
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