This exceptional sculpture shows a howler monkey-man richly attired with an elaborate water lily headdress and a serpent on his forearm.
In his hands he holds a brush and an ink pot.
For the Mayas the monkey was the patron of the arts and responsible for communicating the intentions of the gods to the people by means of writing.
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola detto il Parmigianino, Lucrezia, 1540 circa. Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte.
Lucretia is the most fascinating heroine of the antiquity.
A woman whose story is suspended between truth and legend, and portrayed in several works of art.
Thanks to her, the Roman people found the strength to stage a rebellion against the monarchy ruled by the Family of Tarquin and to establish the Roman Republic.
At this point, some of you are probably wondering: “Who is Lucretia?”
In this post I’ll tell you Lucretia’s story and I’ll show you the artworks which made her famous.
Marina Abramovic, The Space in Between. Image source: insideart.eu
In Italian cinemas comes the new film by Marco Del Fiol and entitled The Space in Between: Marina Abramovic and Brazil.
A trip to the discovery of South America made by Marina Abramovic, which tells the reality of a world of holy men, healers and people of all kinds.
Before going to see the film and tell you my impressions I decided to dedicate this post to the biography of Marina Abramovic, who has now 70 years and is considered the grandmother of performance.
Ancona, Italy. On July 9th 2016 the Municipal Art Gallery of Ancona, Italy, finally opened to the public after 4 years.
Works by Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Lorenzo Lotto and many more are now on view.
A fascinating short film was released in order to illustrate how and why this space is so important.
READ ALSO: News from The Venice Film Festival 2016.
In this post you’ll find images of the backstage and the short film for the Municipal Art Gallery of Ancona, Italy.
Klimt, The Beethoven frieze (detail)
The narrative theme is an interpretation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, whose Ode to joy, conducted by Mahler, was performed for the opening of the event.
Klimt is a portrait of the great musicians to put a face to its armed knight, who heeds to the human desire for happiness and goes forth to join Poetry as she awaits him.
To be able to do so however, he must cross a hostile and dangerous world ruled by the forces of evil, monsters, disease and madness, lust and pain.
It must pass through this world of pain to get to the flower paradise, where there will be the final embrace of love.
READ ALSO: Where you can admire the Kiss by Klimt
