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The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

The landscape-state of mind: when nature becomes feeling

In one of the most intense passages of Gabriele D'Annunzio's Il Piacere, namely the narration of the protagonist Andrea Sperelli 's convalescence after receiving a nasty wound in a duel (an episode that marks the end of the first part of D'Annunzio's...
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The works of the last Monet: little known, but a painter of great visionary power

The works of the last Monet: little known, but a painter of great visionary power

Of the entire oeuvre of Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926), most of the general public, who perhaps also attend exhibitions onImpressionism, tends to know mainly the works of the 1870s and 1880s, those that more than others helped to define t...
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When Giorgio Vasari invented iconographies: the Allegory of Patience

When Giorgio Vasari invented iconographies: the Allegory of Patience

Painter, historiographer, architect. Outstanding collector of anecdotes. Polemicist at times. Court artist. And also inventor of iconographies. It is the latter, perhaps, that is the least known aspect of Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511 - Florence, 1574...
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Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

Donatello's David, a symbolic masterpiece of Florence

It has only been discovered in recent years that Donatello 's David (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi; Florence, 1386 - 1466) once, when the bronze sculpture was kept in the Medici collections in their palace on Via Larga, today's Palazzo Medi...
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Simone Cantarini's sacred elegy. The sweetness of the divine among affections, silences and melancholy

Simone Cantarini's sacred elegy. The sweetness of the divine among affections, silences and melancholy

An innate sweetness pervades the works of Simone Cantarini (Pesaro, 1612 - 1648), painter of contrasts: restless and rebellious was the man, delicate and elegant his painting. And in his art, even the sacred becomes poetry. Or rather: of an openly " ...
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Domenico Beccafumi's cartoons for Siena Cathedral: the idea that anticipates light in marble

Domenico Beccafumi's cartoons for Siena Cathedral: the idea that anticipates light in marble

Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico Beccafumi ...
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Mario Giacomelli's Pretenders. When photography is a reflection on existence

Mario Giacomelli's Pretenders. When photography is a reflection on existence

In the white courtyard of the Bishop's Seminary in Senigallia, a group of young pretties chase each other, as if they wanted to fly, as if their black cloaks were wings. These images, which appear suspended, surreal, poetic and at the same time also ...
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A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson: his converted Magdalene, exhibited in Treviso

A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson: his converted Magdalene, exhibited in Treviso

A splendid unpublished work by Louis Finson (Bruges, 1580 - Amsterdam, 1617), a beautiful Conversion of Magdalene is being shown for the first time to the public on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated precisely to the theme of the sinful saint, M...
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