Matthias Preti - Finestre sull'Arte

Theft of rights, theft of works. Mattia Preti in Taverna, an unpublished account.

Abruptly extinguishing the yearning for freedom and the right to human and social dignity can sometimes have unimaginable repercussions, not always negative. Sometimes, in fact, abuse and deprivation can so shake the human soul that the...
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Caravaggio and Mattia Preti: two Italian geniuses in Malta, in the Oratory of Alof de Wignacourt

Among the few portraits executed by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 - Porto Ercole, 1610), one of the most interesting is a nearly two-meter-high canvas in the Louvre depicting Alof de Wignacourt (Flanders, 1547 - Valletta, 1622), Gr...
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New light on Mattia and Gregorio Preti, the excellent exhibition at Palazzo Barberini in Rome

"He told me his brother Gregorio that in order to pull him along and keep him at painting it set himself to work for shopkeepers, who were then rich and made work, whereupon he worked for the coloraro Nasini alla Sapienza; which by the way the th...
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Guercino and Mattia Preti compared in an exhibition in Calabria, Italy

Opening Aug. 12, and running through Nov. 18, 2017, is the exhibition Guercino-Preti a confronto. The New Line of Baroque Art, which will compare the works of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, better known as Guercino (Cento, 1591 - Bologna, 1666) and tho...
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