Artemisia Gentileschi, leading female painter and female rights leader
By Francesco Carelli , University of Milan Two women are holding a man down on a bed. One presses her fist against his head, so he can’t raise it from the mattress, while her companion pins his torso in place. They are well-built with powerful…
Between Pocahontas and the only one surgeon survived
By prof. Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome At its height, the British Empire was the largest empire in history and the most influential global power. Originating with a few overseas possessions and trading posts, it grew to encompass dominions, colonies and protectorates rule and administrated…
Medical Teachers Appraisal . New challenge for European Family Medicine Teachers
Francesco Carelli Professor of Family Medicine EURACT Council Executive
Carl Spitzerg – Hilarious! Hilarious?
By Prof. Francesco Carelli Some 130 years after the death of the “most popular German painter”, the Leopold Museum is presenting the first exhibition on the artist Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), whose oeuvre is commonly seen as closely allied to the Biedermeier period and the definitions…
Astonishing Monsters – Apocalypse according to Baj
Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome The Italian painter Enrico Baj, born in Milan in 1924, graduated in law while attending Brera Academy, founder of the Nuclear Movement was involved in Italian and international avant-garde movements, and from 1950 exhibited his works regularly in Paris. In…
Ligabue, genius and madness
Francesco Carelli, University Milan , Rome Antonio Ligabue is a self-taught artist. His pictures are childlike and uninhibited, based on instinct. Considered one of the most interesting artists of the 20th century, his genius is founded on solitude and emargination. Liguabue suffered from mental illness…
Dali’ – Jewish experience and Freud
Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome Which wire ties the surreal world of Salvador Dalì, the Jewish religion and the psychoanalysis of Freud? An interweaving of two graphic series concurrently to the exhibition Dalì’s Experience in Bologna are exposed at Jewish Museum.
Hopper: love for clear light
By Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome Some call him a storyteller, while others consider him the only artist who could capture the very instant – crystallized in time – of a scene, or the essence of a person. After all, it was Edward Hopper himself…
Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds – An extraordinary example of integration of cultures
Prof. Francesco Carelli , University Milan, Rome The British Museum has run (May – November 2016) a major exhibition on two lost Egyptian cities, the Egyptian harbours and their recent rediscovery by archaeologists beneath the Mediterranean Sea bed.
Vivian Maier : the real in everyday banality
Francesco Carelli “For all the dinners are coke, the plates and cups washed, the children sent to school and gone out into the world. All has vanished.. No biography or history has a word to say about it. “ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s…
DALI’ EXPERIENCE – A new immersive creative cultural experience, so productive also in teaching and learning
Francesco Carelli, University of Milan This exhibition, at Palazzo Belloni in Bologna (Italy) from 25 November 2016 to 7 May 2017, is really a new , “diffuse” and immersive cultural experience.