Chi è 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
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...
Unlikely eulogy of Botero: that is, of the Botero we would like to see
The years in which Fernando Botero appeared in the art world, that is, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, were for Colombia marked by a social climate where violence was the order of the day (as, for that matter, is the case today with the domination...Read more...
Frank Lloyd Wright, the crisis of the prophet
He considered architecture to be America's "blind spot." That dot that moves across the retina and becomes a disturbance that prevented his countrymen from seeing well how important architecture could be in the development of democratic society. For ...Read more...
Federico Barocci, the smile of melancholy
As Andrea Emiliani wrote in 1975, signing the catalog of the exhibition that is still considered a landmark in the critical relocation of Federico Barocci, an artist who never achieved the status of the revolutionary who conditions an era and redefin...Read more...
The syllogism in artistic form: Armando Testa
For us, the 1960s were the classical and academic moment of the twentieth century that after the wartime débâcle repositioned Italy within the horizon of the modern by making it part of a mentality based on a "total" communicative strate...Read more...
Edoardo Persico and the land of misunderstandings
We anticipate the essay by Maurizio Cecchetti that appears in the catalog of the exhibition conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi Art and Fascism currently running at the Mart in Rovereto, curated by Beatrice Avanzi and Daniela Ferrari, until September 1. The...Read more...
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Keil Space's artistic revolution in Florence: the observer at the center as co-creator
Luca Rossi - 15/11/2024 -
The Fondaco dei Tedeschi, history and transformations of a symbol of Venice
Redazione - 15/11/2024 -
Andrea Pozzo's masterpiece: the Glory of St. Ignatius in Rome
Federico Giannini, Ilaria Baratta - 14/11/2024 -
Sumptuous and cloistered. The Castle of Moncalieri
Federico Giannini - 10/11/2024 -
The Museum of Mediterranean Weaving in Castelsardo: a museum for an ancient craft technique
Redazione - 01/11/2024 -
The Advent Market in Hall in Tirol:?the magic of Christmas in the heart of Tyrol
Redazione - 31/10/2024 -
The Treasure of the Grand Dukes and the collecting of the Tuscan court
Jacopo Suggi - 29/10/2024 -
Veronese villages among history, autumn colors and centuries-old traditions
Redazione - 29/10/2024 -
The Salzburg Fortress has introduced a unique attraction for the public: a set of games
Redazione - 25/10/2024 -
Where do the coins from the Trevi Fountain go?
Andrea Laratta - 24/10/2024 -
In Austria there is a winter jazz festival held inside museums and churches: the 3 Tage Jazz in Saalfelden
Redazione - 20/10/2024 -
An end and not a means. The 100 years of the Ravenna Mosaic School.
Redazione - 18/10/2024
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