The immaculateness of Andrea Mantegnaby Sofia SilvaOn the youth of Andrea Mantegna, between the page and the stone, in the demystification of the antiquarian obsession
Tõnis Vint and the search for the universal visual languageby Elnara TaidreTõnis Vint is one of the pioneers of the post-World War II period. His art practice changed significantly the Estonian art scene, influencing visual arts, graphic design, principles of interior design and architecture from the 1960s onwards
Guariento di Arpo relaxes perfectionby Sofia SilvaGuariento di Arpo's response to the authority of his Padua predecessor Giotto is one where grace blends with Gothic style and humanism
Evolution of a quasi-movementby Stefano PirovanoWe look at a quasi-group of thirteen artists and what has kept them together in the last five years, rising images to the third dimension
Defendente Ferrari: escape from the Renaissanceby Silvia TomasiDefendente Ferrari keenly sought refuge in dreams during an era that instead celebrated the triumph of reality.
Ottaviano Nelli the roughby Antonio CarnevaleHere is an introduction to Ottaviano Nelli, the late Gothic painter from Gubbio who was famous for his rough mix of sacred and vulgar
Hair air style from Middle Age to Botticelliby Silvia TomasiHair colour had a moral significance, the hairstyle a message of seduction or betrayal. And each hair became a story
Enrico Castellani, surfaces and foundationsby Tommaso TriniLOOM gallery and Fondazione Enrico Castellani re-enact the 1999 solo exhibition at Galleria Civica di Trento
Italian silent film divas in their photographic postcardsby Esme GarlakeMany ordinary women saw Italian silent film divas as influences on daily dress and behaviour; much of this came from the consumption of photographic postcards, nowadays still avidly collected
The artistic fate of the windby Silvia TomasiOver the centuries, the wind has always been an iconographic presence for artists, touching upon fate, religion, chaos, love, and nature
On Giulio Romano’s tableware designsby Esme GarlakeTableware designed by Giulio Romano invites us to re-consider the false binary between works of art and functional objects.
Joseph Yoakum and adventurous factsby Sophie VarinJoseph Yoakum has us going between the mundane quality of things in front of us and the extra-ordinary quality of their reasons in the world
Paolo Pagani and the marvels of transformationby Antonio CarnevaleBetween failed aristocratic ambition and ungraspable styles, Paolo Pagani is the forgotten figure of Italian Baroque painting.
Symbol by symbol, dust piles upby Silvia TomasiRead about artists' obsession with dust, from enigmatic depictions in 16th and 17th century painting to post-war imagery and symbols
Death helps life in the anatomical theatreby Silvia TomasiAnatomical theatres were the literal and metaphorical houses of anthropocentrism. Are they resuscitating today?
Luca Pacioli and the mathematical Renaissanceby Antonio CarnevaleThe Renaissance mathematician Luca Pacioli is the crystalline symbol of his shattered dream: an orderly word expressed in numbers
Horace Pippin is a misunderstood realistby Sofia SilvaLabels such as "primitive," "naive," and "folk" can conceal prejudice and racism. Horace Pippin was a realist instead
To the zodiac and backby Silvia TomasiPhaethon changes sex, the gods are sick, the Earth is burned, the seas are drained: the zodiac is all these turns and more
The annoying fly and symbolic paintingsby Silvia TomasiFlies buzz around a few Renaissance, Netherlandish and Baroque paintings, full of jokes, meanings, and hellish symbolism
The typographic utopia of Tallone Editoreby Antonio CarnevaleA journey to the printing atelier of Tallone Editore, where a Renaissance approach to publishing mix with the present
