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A n**e portrait of a crouching woman has been discovered beneath the surface of a painting by Pablo Picasso, titled The ...
15/10/2021

A n**e portrait of a crouching woman has been discovered beneath the surface of a painting by Pablo Picasso, titled The Blind Man's Meal, housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and thanks to Artificial Intelligence and 3D printing it has been recreated.
This is The Lonesome Crouching N**e, initially revealed in part by a superimposed X-ray fluorescence image; the recreation of this hidden work is thanks to Oxia Palus, a company that uses technology to bring lost art back to life. To succeed, the company used XRF imaging and image processing to try to define the outline of the hidden painting; then Artificial Intelligence stepped in and added brush strokes to the portrait in the famous artist's style.
The next step was to create a height map of the portrait to give it texture, and finally the image was printed on canvas using 3D printing.

The n**e of a woman that remained hidden for a whopping 118 years is part of Picasso's blue period. "At the time Picasso...
15/10/2021

The n**e of a woman that remained hidden for a whopping 118 years is part of Picasso's blue period.
"At the time Picasso painted The Lonesome Crouching N**e and The Blind Man's Meal he was poor and the artist's materials were expensive, so he probably painted over the earlier work reluctantly," commented George Cann, one of the founders of Oxia Palus along with Anthony Bourached. "While X-ray images are useful for revealing the images that were painted over, Artificial Intelligence adds another layer to our analysis," said the latter.

"Continuing developments in machine learning and 3D printing should make the work even more accurate in the future," the...
15/10/2021

"Continuing developments in machine learning and 3D printing should make the work even more accurate in the future," they concluded.
The recreated work will be on public display from October 13-17, 2021 in London at deeep, a trade show dedicated to Artificial Intelligence.

The work of Lingeri and Terragni, illustrated in the exhibition through the original materials, conserved in the Lingeri...
11/10/2021

The work of Lingeri and Terragni, illustrated in the exhibition through the original materials, conserved in the Lingeri Archive in Milan and never exhibited in their entirety, is put into dialogue with the Ideal City, an iconic masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and a key work in the collections of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. Among them, other works by contemporary Italian architects such as Aimaro Isola, Andrea Branzi and Franco Purini, who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings. The exhibition therefore proposes to give space to a composite vision of Dante's eschatology, comparing the works of contemporary Italian architects who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings, in dialogue with the two ideal visions of the Danteum and the Ideal City. The objective is therefore to recompose the city of God, or rather the city of Dante's thought, and the city of men, also through a clarification of the visual and conceptual relationship between Dante's traditional imagery and its current interpretation, which is used as a starting point for a broader reflection aimed at looking at the complex and changing comparison between story and image, filtered through powerful and original visions that reflect on the fragile nature of the contemporary world reread through the eyes of Dante.

The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino is celebrating the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death ...
11/10/2021

The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino is celebrating the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death with a special exhibition: "City of God. City of Men. Dante's Architectures and Urban Utopias," curated by Luigi Gallo and Luca Molinari, scheduled from November 25, 2021 to March 27, 2022, focusing on the influence Dante's imagery has had on the vision of artists, architects and illustrators. In particular, the exhibition focuses on the project of the rationalist architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni, who at the end of the 1930s, on behalf of the Fascist regime, elaborated the image of the , a building that was never realized, which was supposed to give shape to Dante's imaginary in an ideal architecture full of symbolism. It was the first time that architecture was called upon to give habitable form to Dante's masterpiece, but the outbreak of World War II made the undertaking impossible.

The should have housed a museum and a library: it had been proposed to the government by Rino Valdemeri, then presid...
11/10/2021

The should have housed a museum and a library: it had been proposed to the government by Rino Valdemeri, then president of the Italian Dante Society, in 1938. The plan was to finish the work in time for the Universal Exhibition in Rome in 1942: Valdemeri's idea was to make the an eloquent symbol of Fascist Italy (the lawyer also prepared a Statute in which he proposed to erect "in this era, in which the will and genius of the Duce are realizing the imperial dream of Dante, a temple to the greatest poet of the Italians", which would have to "implement celebrations of Dante's word, considered the primary source of Mussolini's great creation", to house a library "complete with everything that could be of use to scholars of Dante", and "to suggest and help all those initiatives that foster and attest to the imperial character of Fascist Italy"). However, only the two authors and Benito Mussolini, who gave his consent after the project was presented to him in November 1938 at Palazzo Venezia, were able to see the plates together. Now, for the first time, the whole project will be open to several eyes.

The Park will also organize special visits to the construction site of the House of Orion and the Garden (with restricte...
10/08/2021

The Park will also organize special visits to the construction site of the House of Orion and the Garden (with restricted access and differentiated routes for a guided tour in safety), where work is underway on the final restoration and coverage preparatory to the permanent opening of the entire area. In the houses there are important decorations (the mosaic of Orion with the unpublished iconography and the paintings of the triclinium of the house of the garden), also emerged and secured during the excavations of the Regio V, connected to the wider intervention of securing the excavation fronts, provided by the Grande Progetto Pompei.

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The discovery dates back to 2019, during the interventions of the Grande Progetto Pompei for the securing and consolidat...
10/08/2021

The discovery dates back to 2019, during the interventions of the Grande Progetto Pompei for the securing and consolidation of the historical excavation fronts. In view of the exceptional nature of the decorations and in order to restore the complete configuration of the premises (located in the widening at the intersection of the alley of the Silver Wedding and the alley of the Balconies), in 2020 the Archaeological Park of Pompeii decided to launch a further intervention with the aim of completing the excavation and restoring the rooms and decorative apparatuses present. At the same time, a new wooden cover has been created to protect the painted counter, and the reconstruction of the ancient cantilevered meniano (balcony) has begun, on which part of the original cocciopesto flooring found during the excavation has been placed.
The thermopolis was inaugurated this morning at 11:30 by the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna (former director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii: under his direction were conducted the excavations that brought to light the structure) and the Director General of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

It will open to the public from August 12 the thermopoly of the Regio V of Pompeii, which was discovered in 2019. The th...
10/08/2021

It will open to the public from August 12 the thermopoly of the Regio V of Pompeii, which was discovered in 2019. The thermopolis (an ancient food store: there are about eighty in Pompeii) was brought to light in an area of the ancient city that had never been investigated before, with extraordinary visits to the site of the House of Orion and the House of the Garden. The termopoli, where drinks and hot food were served, as the name indicates of Greek origin, preserved in large dolia (jars) embedded in the masonry counter, were very common in the Roman world, where it was customary for the lower middle class to consume the prandium (the meal) outside the home. The value of the thermopolium of Regio V lies in the decoration of the painted counter: in fact, it presents a Nereid riding a hippocampus and scenes of still life and animals, which probably allude to the food that was prepared, sold and consumed in the restaurant.

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The manuscript of "The Hundred and Twenty Days of S***m" will be presented at a conference in 2022, in the presence of s...
03/08/2021

The manuscript of "The Hundred and Twenty Days of S***m" will be presented at a conference in 2022, in the presence of specialists and intellectuals, with the aim of analyzing the figure of Sade, the reception of his work over the centuries and its significance today.
"This exceptional enrichment of the national collections," communicates the French Ministry of Culture, "is one of the most important in recent years for the BnF. The Ministry of Culture and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France would like to thank the patrons who contributed to these acquisitions."

It was recovered only many years later, in 1904, by the psychiatrist Iwan Bloch, who printed it believing that it was an...
03/08/2021

It was recovered only many years later, in 1904, by the psychiatrist Iwan Bloch, who printed it believing that it was an exceptional document also from the scientific point of view, given the descriptions, in the novel, of many cases of psychiatric interest. Purchased in 1929 by Viscount Charles de Noailles, it was reprinted in the thirties, without the translation errors of the version published by Bloch. Then purchased in 1982 by collector Gérard Nordmann, it was then bought again, for 7 million euros, in 2014 by entrepreneur Gérard Lhéritier. After Lhéritier's company went into liquidation, the manuscript was declared a "national treasure" in 2017 and subsequently returned to the market: 4.55 million euros were needed to secure it, and the French state, at the beginning of the year, launched an appeal, through the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, to find patrons willing to pay the sum.
The appeal finally struck a chord: the banker Emmanuel Boussard, founder of the Boussard & Gavaudan investment fund, responded by making available the entire sum needed to complete the purchase. Boussard's grandfather was the curator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal between 1943 and 1964, and so, explained the French Ministry of Culture, the businessman wanted to demonstrate his attachment to the institution.

The most important existing manuscript of the Marquis de Sade has long been considered lost: it is the first draft of th...
03/08/2021

The most important existing manuscript of the Marquis de Sade has long been considered lost: it is the first draft of the novel "The Hundred and Twenty Days of S***m", a work with an extraordinary history.
Written in 1785, during his imprisonment in the Bastille prison, the object itself is unique: a roll of 12 meters long, consisting of 33 glued sheets, 11.3 centimeters wide.
Sade was transferred from the Bastille on July 4, 1789, ten days before the French Revolution, and instructed his wife Renée-Pélagie to collect his belongings from the cell, including the manuscript: his wife did not remember until July 14, and the Marquis lost his items, including, it was thought, the manuscript itself.

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