Maya Picasso, Daughter of the Historic Artist, Dies in Paris at 87

Villa Aurora: World’s Most Expensive Home, Eye Popping 547 Million Dollars!

Casino dell'Aurora di Villa Ludovisi Boncompagni otherwise known as Villa Aurora, is up for sale at a record price for the most expensive home ever sold. Built in 1570, the 30,000-square-foot, 16th-century villa has been in the Boncompagni-Ludovisi family for...

Arts

Danse Macabre or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Death

byCarlo Maria Lolli Ghetti

The scenario we are living in, dominated by the first global sanitary crisis of the communication era, is totally unprecedented and will inevitably produce a great effect on artistic expressions, in particular those related to death. The Covid-19 assumes a...

Arts

The (Un)Familiar: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude with Jill Burke

byItalian Studies at Harvard

In The Italian Renaissance Nude (Yale University Press, 2018), Dr. Jill Burke, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, constructs a novel interpretation of the Renaissance nude by examining how nakedness, both in art and everyday life, was...

Arts

“Voglia d’Italia”: Collecting Italian Art (1870-1935)

byLucy Gordan

One half of the exhibition concerns how foreigners, particularly the English and Americans, collected Italian art in the late 19th – early 20th century; the other is a display of highlights from the extensive polymathic art collection of American diplomat...

Alexander Archipenko Gravesite 2009, in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY. Photo by Anthony22 at en.wikipedia. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons

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In the Footsteps of Alexander Archipenko from Paris to New York

byIlaria Cicali

New York’s collections hold some of the rare examples of works that the Ukrainian-born sculptor Alexander Archipenko realized when he was in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. CIMA 2014-15 fellow Ilaria Cicali went to discover these works...