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Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being the best in painting, Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. (...)

The painter Carl Haag (1820-1915) gained acclaim for his colorful scenes of the Orient and true-to-life portraits, in which Nubian slaves, Arabian camel drivers or Egyptian snake charmers enliven the visual topography. After attending art school in Nuremberg, the son of a baker advanced to become a (...)

In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was advice that the artist was often to follow himself. Visceral, unflinching and often nude, Freud's (...)

Il numero doppio della rivista 'storica' dedicata all'arte del Seicento a Napoli con saggi di Renato Ruotolo, Lucia Giorgi, Riccardo Naldi, Lorenzo Principi, Lother Sickel, Giuseppe Porzio, Bianca Stranieri, Nadia Bastogi, Miriam Di Penta, Mauro Vincenzo Fontana, Antonia Liberto, Clara Gelao, (...)