Mariano Fortuny, Plaster head of Francesco Paolo Michetti by Vincenzo Gemito, undated, before 1874, pen and brown ink on paper, 21.1 × 30 cm, British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. One reality, several ways of seeing Mariano Fortuny’s drawing of Vincenzo Gemito’s plaster portrait of Francesco Paolo MichettiContinue reading “Francesco Paolo Michetti and the Investigation of the Visible”
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Light, colour and the vitality of motion: Introducing the world of Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929).
The featured image of this article, Francesco Paolo Michetti’s 1877 self-portrait (Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples) offers an introduction to the artist while also immediately conveying the light and colour characteristic of his work. In the words of Marina Miraglia: The half-open mouth and the intense, passionate gaze express that healthy fullness of life and thatContinue reading “Light, colour and the vitality of motion: Introducing the world of Francesco Paolo Michetti (1851-1929).”
