Getting to know an artist through their works is an encounter that sometimes offers the opportunity to understand their art, to place them in the time they lived, to imagine their personality, especially if they are no longer in this world. However, it is not always the case that this allows us to comprehend the motivations behind their artistic and life choices.

Rarely, instead, do we have the fortune to stumble upon some of their diaries, which not only contain reflections on art – their own or that of their contemporaries – but also their innermost soul, their most private life, with their impressions, feelings, and daily existence that would otherwise remain unknown, and the impact of which would not be understood in their works.