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RA ARTE e cucina” “Between art and cuisine” is how the Uffizi Galleries describe their recently launched cooking show, “Uffizi da mangiare” (“Uffizi on a plate”). In the videos, Italian chefs share recipes based on pieces in the collection in Florence, discussing both the artworks and the dishes. Dario Cecchini created
costata alla fiorentina from a game-filled pantry depicted by Jacopo Chimenti (pictured); Marco Stabile turned Giorgio de Chirico’s “Still Life with Peppers and Grapes” into a risotto that aims to capture the painting’s ingredients and sensations on a plate.
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According to Allison Fox, Curator for Archaeology at Manx National Heritage:
“The ring is small and quite delicate in form, but of a high quality and intact. The quality suggests that it was made for, or on behalf of, an individual of high status. It is unlikely that we will be able to establish for certain who owned the ring or whom it commemorated, but there is a possibility that it may have been associated with the Stanley family, previously Lords of Man. The initials JD may refer to James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and Lord of Man, a supporter of the Royalist cause in the Civil War
New volume in Frick Diptych Series focuses on Titian s Pietro Aretino
Titian. Pietro Aretino, ca. 1537. Oil on canvas. 40 1/8 × 33 3/4 inches. The Frick Collection, New York. Photo: Joe Coscia.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Frick Collection announces the sixth title in its popular Diptych series. The new volume, available at Frick Madison and through the museums website, focuses on Titians extraordinary portrait of the famed Italian writer, poet, playwright, and satirist Pietro Aretino. Each book in this series focuses on a single work in the Fricks collection and includes an essay by a curator complemented by a contribution from a contemporary cultural figure.
New book investigates the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley
Allen Staley, Copley and West in England 17751815 | May 2021 | 176 pp | HB. 290 x 240 mm | 93 illus. | 9781916237803 Published by The Burlington Press. Distributed by Paul Holberton Publishing.
LONDON
.- This beautifully illustrated book is the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between two of the greatest 18th-century American artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley.
West and Copley have always and properly been viewed as the two greatest eighteenth-century American artists, despite the fact that, at the age of twenty-one, West left his native shores in 1760, never to return. He went on to become immensely successful in England, becoming, among other things, the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Copley spent half his working life also in England. However, before making the move across the Atlantic, he made his mark as an exceptionally talented artist, w