"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
In my endeavour not to spend my days in misery, last Monday I went to Fondazione Prada here in Milan to see their new temporary exhibition: Folding Screens from the 17th to the 21st Century. It's the kind of thing I would have visited when...
The exhibition has been going on for a while, but I've been: depressed; busy with my forced relocation; depressed; busy with looking for a construction crew that can handle the repairing works in my house; depressed; busy with work; depressed; away on a journey. Said journey...
A Cantabric legend tells the story of a local girl and her dangerous liaison with the rocky cliffs around Castro Urdiales. Hers is a tale of freedom lost and regained, and her fate is said to be connected to a cursed (or blessed) mother-of-pearl mirror....
This is how this exhibition should have been called and let me be clear about it: I think it's the best exhibition in town. Created in collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, it's curated by Francesco Poli, art historian, Mariella Guzzoni, author of Vincent's...
People are always misplacing this one and, due to the proximity of his exhibition to the Goya one I wrote about yesterday, I'm unsurprised that some people queuing for the ticket thought they were contemporaries. Domḗnikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco because he moved to...
The exhibition is called "The Rebellion of Reason", echoing Goya's famous statement on the monsters-producing sleep of reason, it's set up at the lower level of Milan's Royal Palace, and it's curated by Víctor Nieto Alcaide, an 83-years-old Spanish historian of arts (and historian of...
In Greek mythology, Minthe was an underworld naiad, a nymph of water, connected with the infernal river Cocytus, so I guess this could also work for #MermaidMonday. Hades, king of the Underworld, was very fond of her and she eventually became his mistress, but this...
Among the most common are that myths are stories about gods, myths are sacred stories, myths are stories that explain the way the world is, or myths are simply traditional stories that hand on collective knowledge or experience. Writers from various disciplines and intellectual movements have...
Borrowing G.S. Kirk's distinction between three kinds of myth, today on my Patreon we take a look at entertainment, operative, charter and explanatory myths, and what this distinction means for us when we tell a story. The post will be released to the public tomorrow,...
A thermal lake with waters that are rendered warm after staying entrapped for 25 years in crystal, a young Count suffering from chronic pain, a fateful encounter on Saint John's Eve. Join me on my Patreon for some Italian merfolk this Monday. ...
