Tanzio of Varallo - Finestre sull'Arte

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The Sacred Mount of Varallo: an exciting journey, between faith and great art

The Sacred Mount of Varallo: an exciting journey, between faith and great art

The Sacred Mount of Varallo, wrote the great art historian Giovanni Testori, is "one of the most unexpected, greatest and exceptional monuments that art in northern Italy has built, in clear, thoughtful and solemn response to what were the divine t...
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A face impossible to forget. Tanzio da Varallo's David, between Testori and Rimbaud.

A face impossible to forget. Tanzio da Varallo's David, between Testori and Rimbaud.

Giovanni Testori was right: it is impossible to forget the faces of Tanzio da Varallo's two Davids . Especially of the less ancient one, the very blond teenager that Tanzio painted around 1625, of the two the one with the more ephebic face: "...
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Not just Tanzio: the variety of tradition in the Remogna Collection of the Varallo Art Gallery

Not just Tanzio: the variety of tradition in the Remogna Collection of the Varallo Art Gallery

Certainly the most important Valsesian painter of the seventeenth century is Antonio d'Enrico, better known as Tanzio da Varallo (Alagna Valsesia, c. 1582 - Borgosesia?, 1633), an artist who was strongly influenced by the art of Caravaggio ...
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