Inner Surfaces

Essays and articles from the Blog

Essays and articles from the blog

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Cinquecento
Dosso Dossi: Apollo, Fantasia and Form | Piero di Cosimo: Piero di Cosimo’s Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci: Memory and Invention | Polidoro da Caravaggio (c. 1499–1543): Studies for an Annunciation | Raphael (1483–1520): Drawings for the Vault of the Stanza di Eliodoro | Tullio Lombardo: “Lost in Like But Separate Dreams”: Tullio Lombardo’s Double Portrait and Bacchus and Ariadne

Seicento
Battistello Caracciolo: Painting after Caravaggio in Naples (Part 1; Part 2; Part 3: Selected Works) | Cecco del Caravaggio: The Rejected Resurrection | Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life | Domenichino: The Sublime Heights of Laurels and of Parnassus | Giovanni Andrea Donducci, detto il Mastelletta (1575–1655): Sacred Stories, Private Pictures and Imagined Landscapes | Luca Giordano: The Casón del Buen Retiro and the Last Habsburg Court | Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) and the Reworking of the Annunciation | Spadarino: The Angelo custode and the Convito degli dei | Velázquez: Tradition and Transformation: Las Hilanderas / The Spinners / The Fable of Arachne

Ottocento

Giuseppe Casciaro: An Introduction with Context | Giuseppe Casciaro (1861–1941): Rue Scribe and an Italian Network in Paris | Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875): A Girl Reading | Ettore Cumbo (1833–1899): Still Life and Quiet Refinement | Johan Christian Dahl (1788–1857): Two Landscapes through Windows | Giuseppe De Nittis: Light, Air and Modern Life | Vincenzo Gemito and Mathilde Duffaud: Not Made for Financial Gain | Giacinto Gigante: Landscape Regenerated from Within | Francesco Lojacono: The Changing Vision of Sicily | Antonio Mancini and Édouard Manet: Irreversible Consequences | Antonio Mancini: Hunger and Fame / La fame e la fama | Francesco Paolo Michetti: Light, Colour and the Vitality of Motion | Anton Sminck van Pitloo: Between Rome, Naples, and Northern Europe| Joseph Rebell (1787–1828): Observed Nature and Romantic Imagination| Two Women in White: Whistler’s Symphony in White, No. 2 and De Nittis’s Giornata d’inverno

Settecento
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Novecento
Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 1: Divisionism and the Photographic Real) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 2: Futurism: Light, Speed and Force) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 3: Late Figuration and the Modern Image) | Giacomo Balla: From Divisionism to the Futurist Universe (Part 4: Futurism Beyond the Easel)

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