Books

From baroque to glory, seventeenth-century Milanese sculpture in a volume by Susanna Zanuso

Milan, 17th century. In a period of great cultural and artistic ferment but also strongly marked by the political and social vicissitudes of the time, the capital of the Duchy, at that time under the rule of the Spanish monarchy, stood out within the...
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One day, evening: in bookstores the new dot comic strip by Giacomo Nanni

Released on May 21, 2024 in bookstores and on the website of Rulez publishing house, Un Giorno, le soir, the new book by Giacomo Nanni (Rimini, 1971), an Italian but Parisian by adoption cartoonist who is considered one of the most significant author...
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Steel Diva: Valentina Casarotto's novel about Tamara de Lempicka

It is a journey into the life of Tamara de Lempicka (Maria Rozalia Gurwik-Górska; Warsaw, 1898 - Cuernavaca, 1980) that to which Valentina Casarotto, art historian and writer, introduces the public with her new novel Diva d'acciaio, a sort of ...
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How did Van Dyck paint in Genoa? Michela Fasce's book explains.

The Genoese sojourn of Antoon van Dyck (Antwerp, 1599 - London, 1641), a great Flemish painter and leading figure in the arts of the 17th century, dates back to the 1720s, which has been the subject of recent studies, including those of the restorer ...
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Johan & Levi publishing house launches a series dedicated to design

The publishing house Johan & Levi, known for its quality production on art, is today launching a new series dedicated to design: it is called The Amateur's Library and features two great names in the history of design, Charlotte Perriand (Paris, ...
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A cookbook with recipes inspired ... by great works

It is often said, according to a cliché, that cooking is anart. So there are those who wanted to make this rhetorical connection explicit: it was Felicity Souter, an artist, writer, and cook based in London, who is passionate about the fusion of t...
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Abstract art as a form of resistance: artist Roberto Floreani's book

What isabstraction in art? It is that "expressive sphere oriented toward analysis, inner research, even spirituality, devoted, by its intimate nature, to the highest index of freedom, placing itself, without reservation, before the viewer and his int...
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The novel of Lorenzo Lotto's life, narrated by Stefano Zuffi

Art historian Stefano Zuffi 's third book for Enrico Damiani Editore: after comparing, in parallel, the lives of Raphael and Mozart and those of Giotto and Dante, this time Zuffi is publishing with the Brescian publishing house a fictionalized biogra...
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The best of Baroque Genoa in a beautiful and insightful book

Among the most interesting book releases of 2022 is an important work dedicated to the Baroque in Genoa, designed for a wide audience: this is Genova barocca. Works, Artists, Territory, edited by Giacomo Montanari, a book published by Genova Universi...
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Luca Nannipieri's new novel on Canova and Napoleon's plundering comes out today

Luca Nannipieri 's new book entitled Immortal Candor, published by Rizzoli, was released in bookstores today. Two great figures of history are the cornerstones of this novel: Napoleon Bonaparte and Antonio Canova. The book alternates the story of th...
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New book on the Riace Bronzes coming out, with photographs by Luigi Spina

Thepublishing house 5 Continents Editions presents the photographic book Bronzi di Riace, in bookstores from August 19, 2022, and dedicated to the two famous Greek sculptures preserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria on the ...
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Coming soon, the first guide to street art in Italy, with over 500 works and 58 destinations

The first guide to discovering urban art in Italy, written by Anna Fornaciari and Anastasia Fontanesi, founders of the Italian contemporary cultural tourism blog Travel on Art, and published by Polaris Editore, will be released on September 2022. St...
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Biblioexpress, the library in the metro that dispenses books for all tastes and ages, arrives in Milan

Inaugurated in the Milan subway, in the mezzanine of the Porta Venezia station of the M1 line, the Biblioexpress, the library in the subway. You know the normal food and beverage machines placed in passing places to dispense coffee and small snacks?...
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National Gallery of Umbria presents children's guide with Pimpa

In Perugia, the reopening of the National Gallery of Umbria after a year of work(in-depth report here, interview with director Marco Pierini here) never ceases to bring surprises. One of the funniest ones, which we had already anticipated on these pa...
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A book traces the events of the Sacred Speco of Subiaco between the two and fourteenth centuries

An important volume entirely dedicated to the Sacro Speco of Subiaco, the monastery of St. Benedict not far from Rome, was published by Mandragora a few weeks ago: the work of the young scholar Virginia Caramico, born in 1989, the book is entitled Il...
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Is the Mona Lisa in the Louvre the second version of Leonardo da Vinci's work?

Is the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci 's masterpiece preserved in the Louvre, the second version of a painting that the great Tuscan artist had begun earlier? This is the question posed by Salvatore Lorusso in his book Is the Louvre Mona Lisa Leonardo'...
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