August 1996. Federico Zeri's house in the countryside of Mentana, near Rome, appears as an extraordinary fortress within which the scholar enclosed himself to fight a personal war against the gloom of the times. A most faithful mirror of his omnivoro...
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On February 15, 1997, Federico Zeri wrote a letter to the collector who had purchased a splendid Rape of the Sabine Women, assigned to Sebastiano Ricci in an auction at Sotheby's in Munich some time earlier. "The painting examined here," co...
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The great art historian Federico Zeri was born in Rome exactly 100 years ago, on August 12, 1921: and on the occasion of the Anno Zeri event, held this Thursday to celebrate the very centenary of the birth of the scholar who left theUniversity of Bol...
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