Luca Giordano, Self-Portrait as an Alchemist, c. 1660, oil on canvas, 116 × 96 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, inv. 689. Image: © Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan – MiC. Luca Giordano returned to his own appearance throughout his long career. His earliest experiments in self-representation include Saint Luke Painting the Virgin, now in the MuseoContinue reading “Four Self-Portraits by Luca Giordano”
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Silvestro Lega: Places, People and Ways of Painting
Florence, the Macchiaioli and the problem of belonging Silvestro Lega belongs securely to the history of the Macchiaioli, but not quite comfortably to any shorthand definition of them. That is partly because the Macchiaioli themselves were never a school in the strict sense. They were a loose and sometimes fractious constellation of painters, critics andContinue reading “Silvestro Lega: Places, People and Ways of Painting”
The Depth of the Surface: Vittorio Corcos (1859–1933) and the Art of Appearance
Formation and the vero Vittorio Corcos enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in November 1875 and progressed with conspicuous ease. Admitted directly to Enrico Pollastrini’s drawing course, he passed his examinations and, in 1876–77, received a silver medal for a figure study copied dal vero. Despite this success, he soon became dissatisfiedContinue reading “The Depth of the Surface: Vittorio Corcos (1859–1933) and the Art of Appearance”
