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In the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Italy (1861–2011), it was decided to analyse the artwork “The Italian Flag” (La Bandiera Italiana) created by the artist Fernando Melani (Pistoia, 1907–1985), one of the precursors of the Poor Art artistic movement in Italy. This project is a follow-up to a previous study which was mainly focused on the pigments and dyes...
Background This study concerns the application of non-invasive and micro-invasive analyses for the study of a contemporary artwork entitled La Caverna dell’Antimateria (“The Cave of Antimatter”) which was created by Pinot Gallizio in 1958–1959. The work represents one of the most significant examples of industrial painting . It consists of a total of 145 meters of...
In the medieval tower of Spilamberto, near Modena (Italy), during the restoration works of 1946, a small cell was found. The four walls of the cell were entirely covered by monochrome reddish paintings and inscriptions, a sort of diary, work of a man imprisoned there in the first half of XVI century who wanted to leave a memory of the tragic history he lived as actor or witness.In the last sixty years...
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