WTI Magazine #71 2015 October, 30Author : Giulia Carletti Translation by: A sincere attachment to primordial earth and its prime materials is what pervades the variegated œuvre of the Italian artist Gastone Primon. Gastone Primon started his career as a ceramist in Este, his hometown, yet today he lives and works in the south of Rome...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #16 2014 Feb, 07Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Giuseppe Arcimboldo was a unique case in the history of Italian art. Born in 1526, he has been one of the most innovative, original and whimsical painters ever known in world artistic history. Born in Milan, very...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #58 2015 April, 17Author : Enrico de Iulis Translation by: John Cabot University The transformation of Milan - because of the forthcoming Universal Exposition - has been constantly growing. Besides the website for the event, for the new infrastructures of the city and the railroad modernizations, the Ambrosian museum center...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #79 2016 May 13Author : Giulia Carletti Translation by: Often described as a form of conceptualism, Arte Povera (Impoverished Art) was an Italian movement born sometime around 1966 throughout Turin, Rome, and Milan and developed until the early 1970s. Its name was coined by the Italian art critic Germano Celant, in 1969,...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #12 2014 Jan, 10Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti Massimo Campigli is the pen name of Max Ihlenfeldt. He was born in 1895 in Germany, but he moved to Florence with his mother and his grandmother. The relationship between them was particularly incisive in the life and psychology of Max, who - until...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #46 2014 October, 29Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: It has just come to an end another important exhibition in Trento: a rare, very interesting philological reconstruction about the activity of Dosso Dossi and one of his biggest customer: the prince-archbishop of Trento Bernardo Cles.
READ MOREWTI Magazine #74 2015 December 11Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: If there is a gray area in the common people's attention to the history of art, this is definitely one that covers the artistic production of 1800. If the painting, thanks to the romantic current that led to the testimonies of great historical and literary even...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #10 2013 Dec, 20Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: Speaking of Italian Baroque is always very generalizing and sometimes an understatement. There are examples of Baroque in every region of Italy and almost always they have different properties with very connotative details and a final y...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #84 2016 October 17Author : Enrico de Iulis Translation by: 2016 marks the anniversary of the death of two artists linked to the war: in 1916, during a training exercise, the death of Umberto Boccioni, exponent of Italian Futurism; fifty years before, during the third war of independence, Ippolito Caffi died, and it is t...
READ MOREWTI Magazine #43 2014 September, 17Author : Enrico De Iulis Translation by: In addition to their unquestionable skill and fame, some artists of the XX century also have in their personal stories something emblematic and representative of the lives of many unknown Italians with similar fates. Guido Andlovitz is one of these. Born in 1...
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