Art for Art in Matelica: The Madonna of Constantinople
Works of art should be seen in two ways: the patron and the iconography. As much as I love art, I've always...
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Sixtus V and the Marches: between rigour and modernity
The Marche region, despite its small population, has given birth to ten Popes, one of the most significant of which...
The Beauty of Books: Giorgio Mangani and the Marche Region
The Beauty of the Book: Giorgio Mangani His books are masterpieces of resistance, designed to subvert the downward spiral into which the sector is sliding today...
Cyriacus of Ancona, the adventure of a poor Christian
For a long time I thought Ancona wasn't part of Mediterranean civilization, the sunny, fragrant one of the Campanian archipelago, or the ancient Roman provinces between...
Simone Cantarini and his other self in Urbino: an exhibition not to be missed
It's when I return to Urbino that I enter a sort of fairytale dimension that reminds me not only of my youth. "The gods have made...
Giovan Battista Salvi called Sassoferrato
What do the painters of the seventeenth century look for? Light. Which means many things. Light is faith in one's own resources, it is mixed hope...
The Tarpato: the man who knew how to fly
The southern Marche region at the beginning of the twentieth century gave birth to a fair number of artists who would become important in the Italian modern art scene...
The art of paper is still in Fabriano
Sandro Tiberi is a paper artist, in Fabriano. The daily news tells us about the crisis in the paper industry,...
Mary's Choice
We can only imagine what life was like in the countryside in the early 1900s. But no matter how hard we try, I don't think we could ever really have a...
Marche in the heart
Journalist, Belgian origins, food expert and deep connoisseur of the Marche hinterland and its social and economic characteristics. I am an example of how borders...