The Ides of March
On March 15th, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar died: his assassination was revisited in the history of art during the Neoclassical period, in the works of Vincenzo Camuccini and Jean-León Gérôme.
The sportswear garment, loved by artists and musicians including David Hockney, Mick Jagger and Kanye West, has turned into a design staple. Here’s how it continuously reinvents itself while retaining the charme of a classic.
On March 15th, 44 B.C., Julius Caesar died: his assassination was revisited in the history of art during the Neoclassical period, in the works of Vincenzo Camuccini and Jean-León Gérôme.
Conservator Anna Laganà leads Domus to discover a vital but little-known practice: the conservation of contemporary art, through the example of the 1973 transparent pink plastic giraffe.
Many personalities who helped building and livening up the post-war cultural world have passed away in this 2020. For each of them, we suggest a project, a book, an exhibition, a website, to transfer a small part of the enormous cultural legacy they left us.
Jovial and playful, but with a life marked by inner conflicts, Sandro Botticelli was born on March 1st, 1445. He was one of the most famous painters in the Florence of Lorenzo de’ Medici, known for his graceful and spiritual works, such as the The Birth of Venus.
The artist is on show at the Viasaterna Gallery in Milan, with an exhibition of recent works as the result of a constantly evolving process.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
On the anniversary of his birth, we commemorate one of the most erotic painters in art history, Guido Cagnacci. From his religious works to his profane ones, the Baroque master breaks the rules of classical iconography.
Integrated into a context and experienced by the community, these works are not merely a means of cultural dissemination but represent the icon of a metropolis: from the Statue of Liberty to Cattelan’s finger in Milan to many works of the master of the genre, Anish Kapoor.
Palazzo Grassi and Fondazione Prada, San Giorgio and Ocean Space, and more: here is a selection of all the unmissable events in the lagoon that are not part of the Biennale calendar but still worth a visit.
A rare manuscript from the Urbino Renaissance, precious pages of military engineering that may have also inspired the master Leonardo da Vinci, goes up for auction.
From Goya to Burne-Jones, the history of art has depicted the suffering of those who are imprisoned, in cells or in chains: images that echo Ilaria Salis’ highly topical story.
Three decades of the German photographer’s work are on display at the Triennale in Milan, in an unprecedented retrospective titled “Jürgen Teller i need to live”.
The form of light, so precisely delineated by Ungaretti, influenced many painters who made morning the focus of their works, such as the Impressionist Pissarro and Henri Fantin-Latour.