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…
Too little food from animal sources may increase risk of preterm birth
Pregnant women increase their chances of vitamin B12 deficiency if they don’t consume enough meat, milk or eggs. This vitamin is found only in animal products. A deficiency of the vitamin during pregnancy could have dramatic consequences for the foetus.In an in-depth study of 11,216…
Study Finds Association Between Eating Hot Peppers and Decreased Mortality
Like spicy food? If so, you might live longer, say researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, who found that consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13 percent reduction in total mortality – primarily in deaths…
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.
The Nun of Monza – Ecstasy and Grace
Francesco Carelli, University Milan, Rome “I want now to tell what happened to a person, who although had been immoral in the past, afterwards deserved for many years the name of perfect penitent and no less. Because of her sins and severe punishment, she lived…