Classicism - Finestre sull'Arte

Guercino's theater of the affections between classical and natural: the Piacenza exhibition

Among the great Bolognese painters of the seventeenth century, perhaps Giovanni Francesco Barbieri da Cento, better known as Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666), is the one who best exerts his ascendancy over a vast public: certain merit of the gr...
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The Victorian hedonism of Lawrence Alma-Tadema

In this new Descubrir el Arte article written by Natalia de Val Navares and translated by Ilaria, we review the biography and artistic career of Lawrence Alma-Tadema. So to learn more about this artist, do not hesitate to read the article! ;) ...
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When Mishima masturbated over Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian.

Exactly 45 years ago, on November 25, 1970, Yukio Mishima, the great Japanese writer, took his own life in a ritual suicide ("seppuku"), the real motive for which is still the focus of much debate today. Mishima always had a strong and solid rela...
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A still life by Carlo Dolci: the most beautiful ever painted in Florence?

Almost all of the production of Carlo Dolci (1616 - 1687), among the greatest artists of seventeenth-century Florence, consists of sacred subjects, which fully reflect the temperament of this great painter. And the temperament is that of a pious ...
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Simone Cantarini's drawings: peculiarities and main characteristics

Often, "laymen" are wont to attribute a lower value to drawings than to paintings: but drawing is a fundamental means of understanding the dynamics of the artist's creative process and of getting to know his style better, as well as of drawing import...
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Exhibitions in Bologna: In the Age of Correggio and Carracci by Andrea Emiliani (1986)

Andrea Emiliani is one of the most eminent figures in the history of Italian art: a great scholar, a pupil of Roberto Longhi and Francesco Arcangeli, he is also known for having been an excellent superintendent for the cultural heritage of Bologn...
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Exhibitions in Bologna: Nature and Expression by Francesco Arcangeli (1970)

After the major exhibition on Guido Reni in 1954, the subsequent Biennali d'Arte Antica also continued to deal with classicist painters: for example, in 1956 it was the turn of the Carracci, in 1962 there was the exhibition L'Ideale Classico nel Seic...
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Exhibitions in Bologna: Cesare Gnudi's Guido Reni (1954)

After curating the Exhibition of Bolognese Painting of the Fourteenth Century, which we had talked about in the first installment of this series of ours dedicated to the great Bolognese exhibitions of the past, Roberto Longhi moved to Milan where, in...
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