Naples, Capodimonte National Museum. The art historian Claudio Sagliocco guides us through this beautiful museum to discover a masterpiece by Caravaggio, realized during his Neapolitan stay: Flagellation of Christ. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio – better known simply as Caravaggio – was active in Rome for most of his artistic life, but after being sentenced to […]
Read moreWe are in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, where Oliviera Stojovic introduces to us one of Titian’s masterpieces: the Portrait of Pietro Aretino. The painting is the demonstration of one of the most famous partnerships between a man of letters and a painter: the commissioner, Pietro Aretino, one of the most acute […]
Read moreWe are in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence accompanied by Giovanni Matteo Guidetti to admire a work of Raphael’s maturity: Madonna Dell’Impannata. Madonna dell’Impannata by Raphael This piece of art takes its name from a detail in the background: the “paned” window, so called because a cloth was attached to its frame, a typical […]
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