Never have paintings raised more doubts on authenticity than those attributable to Amedeo Modigliani. Even when they are signed, with flawless provenance, doubt lingers. For years, a painting hwas accepted as authentic only if accompanied by the expertise of very few...
“Storia della Pittura- L’Arte come non l’avete mai vista”, AA.V., Gribaudo, 2020 Oltre visitare musei ci piace gironzolare per le librerie. Nella ultima visita alla Feltrinelli abbiamo trovato un libro che ha destato subito la nostra curiosità. La texture della rigida...
If the History of Art was a big puzzle, there would be many pieces known and exhibited in museums, but just as many kept in private collections … and these are all to be studied and attributed! Each new discovery is a great thrill!In this case we report about a small...
“One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye “, said the fox to the Little Prince according to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.But the “essential” protagonist of our story is visible and is visible above all to diagnostic investigations such...
“In the past century, and at the beginning of this one, dealing with Botticelli would have seemed madness”, wrote Symonds, a great scholar, specialist of the Italian Renaissance, in 1877. And in 1895, Bernard Shaw followed, among others: “Today ten acres of Carracci,...
When in 1507 the Raphael‘s Baglioni Altarpiece was placed on the altar of San Matteo in the Church of San Francesco al Prato, in Perugia, no one would ever have imagined that about 100 years later Cardinal Scipione Borghese would have craved...
