Mario Bernocchi: The Master of the Gold Florin

In Criticism by Mercedes Matos Carrara

Florence was a city of merchants before becoming an artistic and architectural gem through the foresight of those very merchants. Its gold florin, first minted in 1252, made it the most important commercial center in …

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L’Immagine di Firenze nel Cinema d’Autore

In Criticism by Chiara Tognolotti

Nell’estate del 1916 un gruppo di artisti discute animatamente al caffè delle Giubbe Rosse, in piazza della Repubblica a Firenze. Tra di loro Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, scrittore e giornalista, Giacomo Balla, pittore, Arnaldo Ginna, pittore …

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Marsilio Ficino and the Sacrament of Color

In Criticism by Patrick Burke

The specific purpose of this paper is quite modest, simply to try to render reasonable, in the absence of sufficient direct textual support, a certain hypothesis, namely that Schelling’s nature philosophy involves a transformation of …