Having got to know the collecting space par excellence of the early Renaissance, the studiolo, we move on to the two spaces typical of the 16th century: the archaeological cortile and the gallery. The…
Collecting in 15th century Italy can't be understood without the space that held those collections: the studiolo. This kind of private space appeared alongside the birth of…
A poet in the old style, one of Sappho's kind, bent on understanding a world. A polemicist and writer, more controversial than acclaimed for her own writing but incredibly…
At Artelista we work to encourage art collecting, and we thought it would be interesting to begin this series of posts in which we'll take a brief tour through the History of…
Elaine of Astolat (at some point, maybe never), better known as the Lady of Shalott, has never painted a picture in her life. Elaine just stays there after the eclipse, weaving another morning from her…
The figure of the cat has carried an ambivalent symbolism across different civilizations and cultures. So, while in feudal Japan the cat becomes a bad omen, or in the Kabbalah and Buddhism it is directly linked to the meaning of the…
Although neither Homer nor Hesiod make any known reference to him, Orpheus is one of the leading figures of Greek mythology. Son of Oeagrus, king of Thrace, (in some other versions of the god…
There's something magnetic about windows. Windows draw us back to them again and again. We close them, we open them, we fill rooms with their constant flow of changing light. We air out our lost nights through the windows. Those of…