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Man, schizophrenic, artist. Remembering Carlo Zinelli 50 years after his death

"He was an extraordinary madman": the words of Vittorino Andreoli, the psychiatrist who has cared for Carlo Zinelli since 1959 and to whom we basically owe our knowledge of this artist, who spent a large part of his life interned in the San Giacomo d...
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The tangled case of Italian paintings "deported" to Belgrade and never returned

The story of eight ancient Italian paintings sounds more like a period thriller than a court case. Instead, it is an episode that really happened and on which the word "end" has not yet been put, despite a ruling by the Court of Bologna filed on Febr...
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Giovanni Bellini's Baptism in Vicenza, a watershed between two eras

It all began with a pilgrimage. In the Jubilee year 1500, Battista Graziani, known as Garzadori, traveled to the Holy Land and, having arrived on the banks of the Jordan River, vowed to build a shrine, dedicating it to the saint who baptized Christ i...
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