Rabarama, born Paola Epifani, is an artist who now resides permanently in the Parnassus of contemporary art, a woman first and foremost, then a vital link with that part of the female that in the history of art has given so much to beauty. An artist who finds herself in the furrow traced by Kalypso, […]
“Strangers at Our Door” is one of the last works by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most eminent intellectuals of our time. It is normal to think of this philosopher for those who have social-democratic ideas, ideas aimed at an open world view. The book has just under 100 pages and can be read quickly […]
Describing a great artist of the past becomes a moment of linear intellectual praxis because his stylistic pen has already settled into the habit of recognition, while dealing with a contemporary artist in vogue and successful becomes a dialogue more fascinating and at the same time more difficult. Ciro Palumbo was born in Zurich in […]
When we go through history we have standardized temporal spaces where it is immediate to recognize and position the element that has taken part, it becomes easy to disquisition Renaissance, almost natural and therefore almost trivial. The work of Andrea Mantegna, dated 1502, is to be considered as an important filament in the rich Renaissance […]
“Whereupon he was paroxysmed as a death messenger. For which I stood up the king and took his head to help him and offer them favor, so that the evil lightened him, his spirit, which was divine, knowing he could not have more honor, died in the arms of that king in his age of […]
Writing something about Leonardo da Vinci is always an arduous job for anyone, even the most discerning scholars, who finds himself before a great man in history of which not only many facets are now known but also because the same genius wrote in a bulimic way so as to put in awe. L. wrote […]
One aspect that always fascinates when we are faced with the beauty of art is that related to the meanings of allegories. An allegory gives the sense of what is the reference to an exemplary attitude, is a revisitation of a concept that we may have verified in our existence, or that we have not […]
A man who affects marble and from inert stone makes it immortal in the history of mankind: where does he find his strength and his genius? It is easy to understand how skill and dedication are virtues that will be always rewarded in life and the success of Michelangelo Buonarroti in the history of art […]
In modern contemplation of the female figure and its social transposition there are days of commemoration, special days that highlight the essence of the woman upset and raped in her daily life. There are many examples, unfortunately, of women being raped and of the terrible events that affect them. One can cite various names that […]
One of the most beautiful and best-known attractions in the history of universal culture is the fresco of “The School of Athens” located on a wall of the room of the Signatura inside the Apostolic Palaces at the Vatican. It is a magnificent work with dimensions, 770 x 500 cm, and represents all Western knowledge […]