San Petersburg is a very peculiar city, born from mud and swamps in the 18th century. Its splendorous and decadent buildings remind me several European cities, such as Paris, Vienna, Rome, or Prague. Its channels and bridges bring me back to Venice, Istanbul, or Ambers. To travel and storytelling is one of my very favourite things to do. I particularly enjoy the inspiration that comes up from unexpected places or visitors…like Roman God Mercury, who follows me from façades, top-of-monuments, fountains and, of course, along the Hermitage rooms. My god! Does he try to escort me to the underworld? Or…
Il Guercino vs Velazquez
During the last week in Rome I tried to travel back a few centuries ago and imagine Diego Velazquez visiting the city in 1630. Walking through the rooms of the Barberini Palace, wandering at the Vatican Museum I look intensely at those artists who fascinated him. What did Velazquez think when he came to the halls of Raphael and the Sistine Chapel, when he first faced the masterpieces of Caravaggio? It’s amazing the fascination that these works still produce today. I like to imagine when he met his Italian contemporaries. The art he was just discovering, those have had around…
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“Moderation curbs all the vices. The ermine prefers to die rather than soil itself.”
Leonardo da Vinci was an inventor, scientist or draughtsman. Cesare Borgia briefly employed him as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503. Cesare and Leonardo became intimate friends and Cesare provided Leonardo with an unlimited pass to inspect and direct all planned and undergoing construction in his domain. Before meeting Cesare, Leonardo had worked as a painter at the Milanese court of Duke Ludovico Sforza in the late 1480s and the 1490s, until Charles VIII of France drove the Sforza out of Italy. While in Milano Leonardo painted the masterpiece “Lady with an Ermine”, portraying the sitter of Ludovico…
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¿Qué hace esto aquí? Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Me gusta la idea de que entremos en una exposición con una pregunta “ Que hace esto aquí?” tal vez porque lo cuadros que más me fascinan son los que más preguntas plantean, quizás por esa idea de diálogo con el artista y con su obra. Y sin duda porque en el Museo Lázaro Galdiano nos muestran una propuesta muy original ( escasas son en nuestro país) y lo ha hecho de manera muy bella. A veces el arte moderno , cito a Katherine Kuh “nos produce una sensación desconcertante “nos enfrenta con amargura hacia la extrañeza, la falta de…
Heroínas
When I visited the exhibition “Heroines” at Madrid Thyssen Museum I thought about the role of women in Renaissance and Baroque. The works by female artists provided me insights into their career strategies and revealed the different ways in which they managed to overcome social and professional restrictions .The exhibition offers an overview of the moral, social, and religious models for women as they were constructed both implicitly and explicitly through visual art as a public expression
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