Small popular essays on art from the Renaissance to the Baroque
When, in the mid-’70s of the fifteenth century, Sixtus IV decided to rebuild the Cappella Magna, the palatine chapel of the Apostolic Palace, he still did not know exactly what it would look like, let alone that one day it would take his name, but he knew he wanted it to be magnificent and able […]
Read More THE VAULT OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL: EVOLUTION OF AN IDEAWe all know it: the famous Tempest painted by Giorgione in the early sixteenth century, a canvas whose success, at least in our time, is partly due to the search for arcane symbolism, sometimes quite abstruse, behind its surface of rural scene threatened by an impending downpour. The suspended, veiled, timeless atmosphere, the silence of […]
Read More The Tempest, or The mistery that (maybe) wasn’t there