Who is Maurizio Cecchetti
Maurizio Cecchetti è nato a Cesena il 13 ottobre 1960. Critico d'arte, scrittore ed editore. Per molti anni è stato critico d'arte del quotidiano "Avvenire". Ora collabora con "Tuttolibri" della "Stampa". Tra i suoi libri si ricordano: Edgar Degas. La vita e l'opera (1998), Le valigie di Ingres (2003), I cerchi delle betulle (2007). Tra i suoi libri recenti: Pedinamenti. Esercizi di critica d'arte (2018), Fuori servizio. Note per la manutenzione di Marcel Duchamp (2019) e Gli anni di Fancello. Una meteora nell'arte italiana tra le due guerre (2023).
All the articles by Maurizio Cecchetti on Finestre sull'Arte
Everything is serious if there is irony. What the exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna is like.
The biggest mistake one can make in making an exhibition of artworks that should have irony as its common thread is to explain where it lurks by overwhelming it with words and reflections. But, on the other hand, what to do? Irony is a "celibate mach...Read more...
Roberto Matta, the avant-garde suspected of kitsch.
When one considers that the birth of American comics lasted, roughly, from 1933 to 1938, and peaked with the myth of Superman, it is not surprising that Roberto Matta's interest in comics was, so to speak, of the first hour. And on the other hand, it...Read more...
Restless renaissance and viaticum padani, from Brescia to Ferrara
In recent decades, historians have declined some historical categories in the plural. Thus the monolithic and imperious Renaissance, with a capital letter, has begun to break down into multiple renaissances, where the adjective regionalist has gained...Read more...
Michael Sweerts, from the vestiges of Rome to the shadows of the East.
He must have been quite a guy, this Sweerts. From a Flemish family ennobled by the textile trade, Andrea, G. De Marchi and Claudio Seccaroni recall today in the catalog of the exhibition, still running in Rome until Jan. 18 at the Accademia di San Lu...Read more...
The revolution of the circle in Marina Apollonio
The word "abstractionism," in the arts, is in danger of being a meaningless word. And not because, conversely, "figurative" makes sense. On the contrary. It is a confusion that came about with the avant-gardes who, having faith in the new, considered...Read more...
Henri Cartier-Bresson, the decisive instant of the South
Henri Cartier-Bresson's travels in Italy are journeys, especially to the South, recounted in photographic "reportages" that have a vague ethnographic flavor. The tone with which the French photographer approaches our worlds is somewhat reminiscent of...Read more...
Why Helen Frankenthaler's painting was "without rules." What the Florence exhibition looks like
The most poetic and coldest painting at the same time on display at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence (through Jan. 26) in the exhibition Helen Frankenthaler. Painting Without Rules, is titled Mornings and dates from 1971. The American painter was 43 years...Read more...
The skin of the chameleon and Bertozzi & Casoni's memento mori
New technologies, including those of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence that seeks to simulate dialogue capabilities with a human interlocutor by giving the impression of exercising, precisely, a critical factor that makes the conversation credible...Read more...
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The places of Montalbano's Sicily
Andrea Laratta - 15/02/2025 -
The Museum of Human Anatomy in Pisa, a journey through the human body among mummies and embalmed heads
Jacopo Suggi - 13/02/2025 -
Spain, land of castles: 10 of the most spectacular and least known
Redazione - 13/02/2025 -
Signs of Genius: the Museum of Graphics in Pisa.
Jacopo Suggi - 04/02/2025 -
The history of the long relationship between man and animal in the Anatomical Veterinary Museum of Pisa
Jacopo Suggi - 01/02/2025 -
The Castle of Agliè, from the home of dukes and princes to the good of all
Ilaria Baratta - 29/01/2025 -
The restoration of Lorenzo Lotto's Visitation: a masterpiece coming back to life. With its mystery
Noemi Capoccia - 29/01/2025 -
Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale reassembles a masterpiece, Sano di Pietro's Polyptych of the Gesuati
Redazione - 28/01/2025 -
Between art and science, the Botanical Museum of the University of Pisa.
Jacopo Suggi - 28/01/2025 -
Prague's National Gallery, the charm of an eclectic capital through its masterpieces
Jacopo Suggi - 25/01/2025 -
Vallo di Nera, between Franciscan frescoes and movements of ancient popular devotion
Federico Giannini - 19/01/2025 -
The University of Pisa's Gipsoteca d'Arte Antica, a collection of classical statues in a church
Redazione - 16/01/2025
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By Leonardo Bison - published on 22/01/2025 alle 19:32:57 - 0 Commenti - Hokusai in Pisa, many masterpieces and some uncertainty
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By Federico Giannini - published on 09/02/2025 alle 17:55:29 - 0 Commenti - Siena's Pinacoteca Nazionale reassembles a masterpiece, Sano di Pietro's Polyptych of the Gesuati
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By Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - published on 06/02/2025 alle 21:43:50 - 0 Commenti - The Castle of Agliè, from the home of dukes and princes to the good of all
By Ilaria Baratta - published on 29/01/2025 alle 17:22:28 - 0 Commenti - On the ... postmodern rearrangement of the GAM in Turin: is this what we want from a museum today?
By Federico Giannini - published on 16/02/2025 alle 13:15:16 - 0 Commenti - Prague's National Gallery, the charm of an eclectic capital through its masterpieces
By Jacopo Suggi - published on 25/01/2025 alle 16:42:29 - 0 Commenti - Reportage from Modenantiquaria 2025: our selection of the most interesting works (with prices)
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