The Milan monastery housing Leonardo da Vinci s
The Last Supper has reopened its doors, bringing delight and solace to locals who for once can visit the masterpiece without booking weeks ahead. After this terrible pandemic, it allows me to escape, it lifts my soul, and lets me feel emotions again, said Milan resident Alessandria Fabbri, 37, as she admired the world-famous mural.
Painted on the refectory wall of the Dominican monastery inside Santa Maria delle Grazie,
The Last Supper attracted more than 445,000 visitors in 2019, lured to Milan for the 500th anniversary of the death of the great Renaissance painter and inventor.
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Echoes and agreements: A photo essay
Drawing on the Uffizi’s Hypervisions exhibition “On Being Present”
Theophilus Marboah
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Five Ways of Being a Painting, historian William Max Nelson writes: “Like any good aphorism, the short sentence functions as both a part and a whole. At first, it seems to make sense in isolation, yet it calls out for placement within a context that could reveal some fuller meaning.”
Top: Vittore Carpaccio, Gli Alabardieri, 1490-1493. Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence. Su concessione del Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il Turismo; Bottom: Johny Pitts, Berlin, from the series Afropean.
Linda Falcone, in conversation with AADFI president, Dr Cristina Acidini. The talk looks at whether we can claim that this is where the Renaissance really started and presents a unique opportunity to (virtually) visit where art training began - the world over - in a space that s only very rarely open to the public.
Florence’s Drawing Academy, which has been open continuously since 1563, was ideated by Giorgio Vasari and founded by Cosimo I de’ Medici as an association for artists at a time when painters still belonged to the Guild of Physicians and Spice Makers, given that their craft involved the grinding of colours. Accademia delle Arti del Disegno president Dr. Cristina Acidini reveals the secrets of this intriguing venue at the very heart of Florence s art history, whose ranks include Michelangelo, Bronzino and Artemisia Gentileschi, the first woman granted membership, in 1615.