Drawing as the space where a work takes shape, transforms, and gradually finds its balance. This is the perspective from which *Dialoghi di carta: Lombard Drawings and Masters from Elsewhere* begins —the exhibition presented by the Matteo…
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The announcement of an exhibition featuring a great artist from the recent or distant past always generates a great deal of anticipation and high expectations; it’s understandable that this is the case, but a universally recognized name…
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A painting by Sandro Botticelli ( Alessandro Filipepi; Florence, 1445–1510)—a Madonna and Child Enthroned that was located in Florence in the early 19th century, specifically in the Oratory of San Giuliano , at the convent of the…
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One of the most important works from Guercino’s early career ( Giovanni Francesco Barbieri; Cento, 1591 – Bologna, 1666): it is *Erminia Finding the Wounded Tancredi*, which, according to scholar Nicholas Turner—one of the…
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Four paintings, a wooden ceiling to be reconstructed in the imagination, and a history still partly to be explored. In Bologna, four panels attributed to the young Ludovico Carracci are temporarily returning to the Palazzo Fava complex…
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In the triptych of the Santissima Annunziata in Serina, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino holds a book and a cross in his hands and rests his left foot on a small transparent globe, an ancient symbol of the vanity of earthly things. The painter…
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On April 18, 1633, Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio of Savoy had 25 scudi paid to a gentleman from Pavia named Muzio Pietra. The reason for the payment takes up half a line: “for a portrait by Caravaggio.” It does not say who is…
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Three and a half meters below the historic center of Catania,five burial chambers connected by corridors and ancient staircases are once again open to the public.The Ancient Hypogeum of the Church of St. Augustine—now the Diocesan Shrine…
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