December 2014

  • Giacomo Leopardi: A poet in film

    Giacomo Leopardi: A poet in film

    Reviewed by Alta Macadam Il Giovane favoloso, a film released in Italy this autumn, describes the life of the country’s greatest Romantic poet (in fact its greatest poet, together with Dante and Petrarch). This undertaking, by director Mario Martone, was highly ambitious: Elio Germano as Leopardi re-enacts the life of…

  • Sassoferrato and the Aion Mosaic

    Sassoferrato and the Aion Mosaic

    “The name Sassoferrato derives from the Latin saxum ferratum, โ€˜stone encircled by ironโ€™; it stands on a rocky crest, in an area rich in iron ore. Close by, at the confluence of the Sentino and Marena rivers, stood the Roman city of Sentinum, where in 295 BC the Romans achieved…

  • The Aventine and Turner in Rome

    The Aventine and Turner in Rome

    News in early December of the sale through Sotheby’s of Turner’s great landscape painting “Rome, from Mount Aventine” has been given much publicity because of the record price of ยฃ30.3 million it fetched: the most ever paid for a painting by Turner. In preparation for a new edition of Blue…

  • Artwork of the Month: December

    Artwork of the Month: December

    The Man in Pink “The Man in Pink” by Giovanni Battista Moroni is part of the exhibition devoted to this superb 16th-century portrait painter now on at the Royal Academy in London.

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