Lucretia 's is a tragic story. It is a story of rape in ancient Rome, but also of honor violated. And it is a story that ends in tragedy because so strong is the shame at the thought of being unjustly considered an adulteress, she who was completely...
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An innate sweetness pervades the works of Simone Cantarini (Pesaro, 1612 - 1648), painter of contrasts: restless and rebellious was the man, delicate and elegant his painting. And in his art, even the sacred becomes poetry. Or rather: of an openly " ...
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Serena Fineschi. "Assisting the Darkness" is a public art project whose genesis goes way back. It was born in 2014 on the occasion of my work Stato di Grazia (State of Grace), in which I interrupted the public and monumental lighting of the entire hi...
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Maurizio Faleni's new work shines in the great hall of his Livorno studio, under the light of an early June morning that enhances the aluminum surfaces of his Living Works, living works, the most recent chapter in a research that has always questione...
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That the storerooms of museums and superintendencies are treasure chests is, all things considered, a well-known fact. That Palazzo Montecitorio, where the Chamber of Deputies is housed, is crammed with works of art is, all things considered, equally...
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There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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Cesare Brandi, in 1933, compiling the catalog of the collection held by the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, had called them "heirlooms." a term that has perhaps become inadequate today to define, in a single word, the cartoons that Domenico Beccafumi ...
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In the white courtyard of the Bishop's Seminary in Senigallia, a group of young pretties chase each other, as if they wanted to fly, as if their black cloaks were wings. These images, which appear suspended, surreal, poetic and at the same time also ...
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There is a moment, when the late afternoon light hits a pastry shop window, when everything seems suspended. The shadows lengthen, the colors saturate, and each frosting reflects a golden glimmer. It is in this precise instant that Wayne Thiebaud (Me...
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Mimmo Jodice, born in Naples in 1934, is one of the most representative figures in Italian and international photography. His work, now the focus of the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. The Enigma of Light hosted at Udine Castle (from April 5 to Nov. 4, 2025...
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In the complex and stratified artistic career of Sandro Chia (Florence, 1946), paper has never been a mere secondary support: this thesis is also at the center of the recent exhibition Sandro Chia. The Two Painters. Works on Paper 1989-2017 (Lecce, F...
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"What is essential is invisible to the eyes," wrote Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This is the secret that the fox reveals to the Little Prince, an invitation to go beyond what is seen on the surface, which may perhaps at first glance seem insignif...
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The figure of Felice Casorati stands out on the early twentieth-century Italian art scene as a silent, rather secluded, but deeply incisive presence. His art, a refined, cultured art, traversed the major currents of the century with independent step,...
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In the vast panorama of the arts between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the singular, and still little-known, figure of Belgian painter Jules van Biesbroeck (Portici, 1873 - Brussels, 1965) represents a significant case for understanding the...
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What happens when the memory of a place crumbles between the fingers, like ore dust extracted from the earth? Otobong Nkanga digs into the sediments of history, the fractures of the landscape, the invisible scars of matter. Her art is not content to ...
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St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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