#il Perugino

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Pietro Vannucci (Italian, c.1446-1523) Ritratto di giovinetto, 1494 Uffizi Gallery Florence

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"Perugino. Rinascimento immortale" al cinema solo il 3, 4 e 5 aprile

Il documentario, con la partecipazione straordinaria di Marco Bocci, racconta la vita e l’opera di Perugino partendo dal legame con la sua terra, l’Umbria, e in particolare con i paesaggi luminosi che si aprono sulle sponde del lago Trasimeno che spesso Perugino ha immortalato sullo sfondo dei suoi dipinti. Da Castel della Pieve, un borgo immerso in quei paesaggi, Pietro Vannucci, che solo in…

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Da stamattina gira un elicottero sopra di me, non so, forse si sarà perso qualcuno, fatto sta che quesro rumore mi tortura dalle 8.30 "tuttutututtu" poi qualche instante si allontana un po', ma dura poco, si riavvicina e:....... "ttututututututu" mi sfonda le tempie questo ttututututututu, insomma per farvela breve sogno di essere Rambo con il suo arco

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Workshop of Pietro di Cristoforo Vanucci, il Perugino Saint Sebastian

Oil on panel, 51.2 x 37.3 cm, 16th century

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 20

c.275 AD. – St. Sebastian was born in the 3rd century AD. We know the date, but not the year. He is the patron saint of archers because he was bound to a stake and shot with arrows. He is also the patron saint of soldiers. As a beautiful young man he was the favorite of the emperor Diocletian who turned against him for embracing Christianity.

Some tales speculate that the Emperor Diocletian made romantic advances upon Sebastian and was enraged when Sebastian rejected him on Christian grounds. Other stories actually refer to Sebastian as the emperor's lover. Whether or not such accounts are legitimate, the image of St. Sebastian has been linked to homoeroticism.

According to the Church's official Acta Sanctorum, Sebastian, serving under the emperors Diocletian and Maximian, came to the rescue of Christian soldiers, Marcellinus and Mark, and thereby confessed his own Christianity. Diocletian insisted that Sebastian be shot to death by his fellow archers; these orders were followed, and Sebastian was left for dead.

These details—based on accounts written centuries after Sebastian's death and therefore largely apocryphal—may have helped form Sebastian's subsequent reputation as a homosexual martyr since his story constitutes a kind of "coming out" tale followed by his survival of an execution that may be read symbolically as a penetration.

In the Renaissance, Sebastian emerged as an extraordinarily popular subject for painters, perhaps rivaled only by Jesus and Mary; he was especially prized by artists who saw in the young saint a figure of Hellenic loveliness. Numerous painters—Tintoretto, Mantegna, Titian, Guido Reni, Giorgione, Perugino, Botticelli, Bazzi ("Il Sodoma")—recast Sebastian as a martyr beatifically receptive to his arrow-ridden fate.

It was primarily the Renaissance depiction of Sebastian that served a later, explicitly homosexual cult of St. Sebastian that took hold with remarkable force beginning in the nineteenth century, with Sebastian as an modern emblem of both a homoerotically charged object of desire and a source of solace for the rejected homosexual.

1900 – British actor Colin Clive (d.1937) is born in Saint-Malo, France to an English colonel, Colin Philip Greig, and his wife, Caroline Margaret Lugard Clive. He attended Stonyhurst College and subsequently Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. Clive studied acting, and replaced Laurence Olivier in the stage play, Journey’s End, in 1927.

James Whale was the director of Journey's End. The two struck up an intimate relationship, and Clive played the lead in Journey’s End when it moved to the Savoy Theater in London in 1928. Clive was embraced by Whale’s theatrical friends including actress Elsa Lanchester. He followed Whale to New York City and Whale facilitated the casting of Clive in the movie version of the play.

Journey’s End was Clive’s first of 18 feature films. Clive appeared on Broadway in Overture. When the play closed, he went to London and starred with Elsa Lanchester in The Stronger Sex.

Clive is perhaps best known for playing the role of Dr. Henry Frankenstein in the James Whale-directed Frankenstein (1931) and in the Bride of Frankenstein (1935) with his friend Elsa Lanchester.

Though Clive was gay, he married actress Jeanne de Casalis in 1929, but the marriage was one of convenience, and they separated a short time later.

Clive was a member of the Brit ex-patriot actors in Hollywood including Lanchester, Karloff and Charles Laughton, and remained close with Whale.

The actor struggled with his sexual identity and suffered alcoholism and depression from an early age. His drinking became more and more problematic professionally. He often came to work drunk and passed out on the set. He was even fired from a starring role in a film when he suffered a breakdown.

Clive’s final film was in 1937, The Woman I Love. Colin Clive died on June 25, 1937, of tuberculosis complicated by chronic alcoholism. He was 37 years old. Actress Mae Clarke, one of his leading ladies, said, "Colin was the handsomest man I ever saw and also the saddest."

1945 – Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.

Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother. The absence of a paternal figures will be a constant in Amelio's future works.

During his university studies of philosophy in Messina, Amelio got interested in cinema, writing as film critic for a local magazine. In 1965 he moved to Rome, where he worked as operator and assistant director for figures such as Liliana Cavani and Vittorio De Seta. He also worked for television, directing documentaries and advertisements.

Amelio's first important work is the TV film La città del sole, directed in 1973 for RAI TV and inspired to Tommaso Campanella's work. This was followed by Bertolucci secondo il cinema (1976) a documentary about shooting the movie 1900, and the thriller Effetti speciali. Two years later he directed the mystery La morte al lavoro, which won prizes at Locarno and Hyères festivals. The Little Archimedes (Il piccolo Archimede) of 1979 was also critically acclaimed.

In 1982 he debuted for cinema proper with Blow to the Heart (Colpire al cuore), about Italian terrorism, presented at the Venice Film Festival. In 1987 Amelio released I ragazzi di via Panisperna, about the lives of 1930 Italian physicists Enrico Fermi and Edoardo Amaldi, which won the award for best screenplay at the Bari Film Festival. 1989's Open Doors (Porte aperte), featuring Gian Maria Volonté, confirmed Amelio's status as one of Italy's best film directors and won a nomination as Best Foreign Film at 1991 Academy Awards. The film received also four Felix, two Silver Ribbon, four David di Donatello and three Golden Globes awards.

Also successful was The Stolen Children (Il ladro di bambini) in 1992, which won the Special Prize of Jury at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival plus two Silver Ribbon and 5 David di Donatello. In 1994 Lamerica, about Albanian immigration in Italy, repeated the fate and the success, with 2 Silver Ribbons and 3 Davids. Four years later, The Way We Laughed (Così ridevano) won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Amelio gained another Silver Ribbon as best director for The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa), inspired to a novel by Giuseppe Pontiggia, of 2004.

Amelio was a member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. In 2006 he released his eighth feature film, The Missing Star (La stella che non c'è), featuring Sergio Castellitto. From 2009 to 2012 he was director of Torino Film Festival, Turin.

Amelio came out as gay late in life, shortly before the release of his 2014 documentary Happy to be Different.

1974 – Michael Stabile is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker best known for his work in and about the pornography industry. His work has appeared in Playboy, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed and Salon.com. In 2004, he and Jack Shamama co-created the gay pornographic soap opera Wet Palms for which they won a GayVN Award for Best Screenplay. He has also written several other GayVN-nominated movies including Spokes III, Cross Country, and Master of the House. Two of the films were included in "Top 10 Gay Porn Movies of the Decade" by Gawker Media's Fleshbot with credit given to the writing team of Stabile and Shamama.Since 2003, Stabile has edited Gay Porn Blog and in 2005 became producer of The Tim and Roma Show, a web-based talk show about the gay adult industry. In 2008, Stabile launched gay news site TheSword.com. He has been named "an arbiter of taste for gay porn" by the Village Voice.

Stabile has also been featured in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle, Gay.com, Time Out, Cybersocket, and the Huffington Post.Stabile is working with Shamama and cinematographer Ben Leon on Seed Money, a documentary about Falcon Studios' founder and GLBT philanthropist Chuck Holmes, currently in production. Their documentary short, Smut Capital of America premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2011. In late 2011, Stabile began working with Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn on a documentary about her life.

1976 – Mathieu Klein is a French politician serving as Mayor of Nancy since 2020. A member of the Socialist Party since 1992, he is also President of the Departmental Council of Meurthe-et-Moselle. After the 2020 French municipal elections, he became the first socialist Mayor of Nancy since the end of the second World War.

Mathieu Klein was born into a family of teachers in Phalsbourg, Moselle. Alongside his two brothers, he was brought up in Holving, before pursuing his secondary education at Sarreguemines. He moved to Nancy, France in 1993 to study history and sociology. He then continued his university studies in Paris.

Mathieu Klein has been a member of the Socialist Party since 1992 and his gave support in favour of a positive result in the French referendum on the Maastricht Treaty. He then became a student member of the National Union of Students of France in Nancy, then in Paris, becoming a member of its national bureau in charge of health matters.

In 1994 in Nancy he founded an LGBT association dedicated to the promotion of equality and fighting against homophobia.

In the 2020 French municipal elections in Nancy, Klein headed the Socialist Party, which took the first place in the first round on 15 March 2020, with 37.9% of the vote. Following this result, Klein merged with Europe Ecology – The Greens. In the second round, held on 28 June 2020, Klein prevailed with 54.5% of the vote. He was confirmed as Mayor on 15 July 2020 by 43 votes in the municipal council of Nancy, becoming the first left-wing person to exercise this mandate since the end of the second World War.

Mathieu Klein is homosexual and works in associations which are engaged in the fight against homophobia. He is married to a family doctor and the couple have three children.

1979 – Will Young is an English singer and actor. He catapulted to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural UK Pop Idol contest. He has continued to work in music, and also as an actor.

Contrary to popular belief, Will did not come from behind to win the contest. After having beaten the widely-accepted frontrunner Gareth Gates in the final show, it emerged that he had in fact gained the most votes in six out of the nine weeks of the live show.

Young's first single was a double A-side featuring Evergreen and Anything Is Possible. In March 2002 this became the fastest-selling debut in UK chart history, selling 403,027 copies on its day of release (1,108,659 copies in its first week). It went on to sell over 1.7 million copies, and in the official list of the all-time best-selling singles in the UK issued later that year it was 11th. On 31 December 2009, Radio 1 confirmed that Anything Is Possible/Evergreen was the biggest selling single of the 2000s decade in the United Kingdom.

Young subsequently revealed that he was gay, in order to pre-empt a tabloid newspaper that was preparing to run a story 'outing' him. He also stated that he had never hidden, and was comfortable with, his sexuality.

Later in the year, Young met comedian David Walliams and the pair became good friends, with Young appearing at the Little Britain live stage show in Manchester, and later recording a podcast with Walliams, in which they chatted about various aspects of Young's career.

Will added acting to his repertoire when he accepted a role in the BBC film Mrs Henderson Presents, starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. The film was released in the UK in November 2005 to excellent reviews — not least for Young's performance as both actor and singer in the film.

1980 – Yusaf Mack is an American professional boxer. He has held regional titles from the USBA (Now the IBF), NABA, UBA, and NABF. Mack has fought several former world champions, including Alejandro Berrio, Glen Johnson and Carl Froch.

Mack made his professional boxing debut at middleweight on November 17, 2000 in Biloxi, Mississippi. In his first 24 fights, Mack compiled a record of 22-0 with two draws. Throughout his early fights Mack moved between the middleweight, super middleweight, and light heavyweight divisions.

Mack is a father of ten children and was engaged to a woman. In 2015, he appeared in a Dawgpoundusa.com production titled Holiday Hump'n along with gay pornographic actors Bamm Bamm and Young Buck under the name Philly. He initially claimed he had been drugged by the film's producers and had no recollection of making the film, but later told WTXF-TV that he was gay and had lied to cover that up.

Yusaf later had a "coming out party" at Rage nightclub in Weho, a longtime landmark on the L.A. gay scene.

2012 – Three Muslim men from Derby, UK, were convicted of inciting hatred on the grounds of sexual orientation after they distributed leaflets calling for gay people to be killed.

In a landmark case, a jury at Derby Crown Court ruled the three had breached hate crime legislation by handing out the leaflets outside the Jama mosque, in Rosehill Street, Derby, in July 2010 in advance of a gay pride parade, as well as putting them through nearby letterboxes.One of the leaflets, entitled "The Death Penalty?," depicted a mannequin hanging by the neck from a noose. "The death sentence is the only way this immoral crime can be erased from corrupting society and act as a deterrent for any other ill person who is remotely inclined in this bent way," the leaflet read, as it discussed various methods of carrying out the death penalty for homosexuals.

Another depicted homosexuals burning in a lake in hell. A third showed the word gay laid out as an acronym to read "God Abhors You."

Today's Gay Wisdom

For The Straight Folks Who Don't Mind Gays But Wish They Weren't So BLATANT

by Pat Parker

You know, some people got a lot of nerve.Sometimes I don't believe the things I see and hear. Have you met the woman who's shocked by two women kissing and in the same breath, tells you she is pregnant? BUT gays, shouldn't be so blatant. Or this straight couple sits next to you in a movie and you can't hear the dialogue because of the sound effects. BUT gays shouldn't be so blatant. And the woman in your office spends an entire lunch hour talking about her new bikini drawers and how much her husband likes them. BUT gays shouldn't be so blatant. Or the "hip" chick in your class rattling like a mile a minute while you're trying to get stoned in the john, about the camping trip she took with her musician boyfriend. BUT gays shouldn't be so blatant. You go in a public bathroom and all over the walls there's John loves Mary, Janice digs Richard, Pepe loves Delores, etc., etc. BUT gays shouldn't be so blatant. Or your go to an amusement park and there's a tunnel of love and pictures of straights painted on the front and grinning couples are coming in and out. BUT gays shouldn't be so blatant. Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day day and night, every place - even in gay bars and they want gay men and woman to go and hide in the closet. So to you straight folks I say, "Sure, I'll go if you go too" BUT I'm polite, so, after you.

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This is mostly just a reference for me, but if anyone else wants it you are free to it! Or please, add some more to the list, I would appreciate it!

Renaissance paintings that could, conceptually, be of Amadeo (AKA: from Venice, circa 1515-1550 of a young man with shoulder-ish length hair). Also known as I know nothing about art and thus, where to even start looking properly (I've decided it's museum collections).

Some, like Botticelli's Saint Sebastian while visually perfect, aren't included on this list because it falls too early.

A Concert, c. 1518-1520 by Giovanni Cariani / Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Joseph, c. 1525 by Vincenzo Catena

The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, c. 1518-1560 by Antonio Badile. Portrait d'homme vêtu de noir "Portrait of a man dressed in black", c. 1500-1550 by unknown (has been attributed to Pietro Perugino) / Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, c. 1525 by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi (Il Sodoma).

Under the cut is any that would work more for a book version.

Saint John the Baptist, c. 1520, by Gian Giacomo Caprotti / Madonna Adoring the Child, c. 1520 by Marco Basaiti / Bacchus, originally Saint John the Baptist, c. 151-1519 by Francesco Melzi.

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Dama con un gatto, 1525 circa, olio su tavola, New York, collezione privata

Francesco Ubertini detto il Bacchiacca (Borgo San Lorenzo, 1º marzo 1494 – Firenze, 5 ottobre 1557) è stato un pittore italiano, fiorentino.

Figlio dell'orefice Ubertino Verdi, fu allievo del Perugino e poi aiutante del Franciabigio e risentì anche di influssi di Andrea del Sarto, come Michelangelo, Raffaello e Dürer. Eseguì una serie di quadretti di soggetto sacro e profano, mostrando una vivace fantasia nell'accostare figure e colori. Prese parte alla decorazione della Camera nuziale Borgherini verso il 1515-1520. Dopo aver passato un breve periodo di tempo a Roma nel 1524, tornò a Firenze. Nel 1540 entrò al servizio di Cosimo I de' Medici per decorare il palazzo della Signoria. Si distinse soprattutto come autore di cartoni per arazzi e per varie opere decorative per Cosimo.

Fu fratello di Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi, pure detto Bacchiacca, che sia Vasari che Benedetto Varchi e Cellini ricordano come "ottimo ricamatore" al servizio di Cosimo I de' Medici.

(fonte web)

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The Sistine Chapel Crucifix

On Saturday, December 12, 1931, Gandhi had a strange encounter with one such man ["of faith and non-violence incarnate"]. It took place in the Vatican Museums. After being shown the masterpieces of some of the world's greatest artists, Gandhi was taken to the Sistine Chapel — the place where Popes had been elected since 1492; the place where Michelangelo's paintings adorn the ceiling and Raphael's tapestries decorate the sturdy walls alongside frescoes of Perugino, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, and Rosselli. Here, amidst the profusion of colour, symbols, tradition, and against the backdrop of Michelangelo's Last Judgment, Gandhi's eyes fell on a simple wooden crucifix at the centre of the high altar. A common tourist would normally have been transfixed by Michelangelo's depiction of lost souls in contorted bodies behind it. But Gandhi was neither a commoner nor a tourist. He stopped before the crucifix for some time. He contemplated the dying Christ, half-naked, bleeding, and suspended by nails in his hands and feet. He surveyed the image, moving to look at it from the rear of the altar, then from each side, "as if to perform a pradakshina [circumabulation of a deity] of it." Mira noticed his moist eyes. He then whispered to Desai on his way out of the chapel, "One can't help being moved to tears." The Pope's inability to grant him an audience and Mussolini's sinister hospitality coalesced in this unexpected encounter with the Crucified — author of the 'Beatitudes' he loved so much.

Peter Gonsalves ("The Mahatma, Il Duce, and the Crucifix: Gandhi's Brief Encounter with Mussolini and its Consequences"). Bolded emphases added.

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ADRIANO SOFRI

Ligotti, una carriera

Si conosce bene il proprio nemico. Luigi Ligotti - si chiamava così, tutto attaccato, prima del lifting onomastico - è stato mio nemico, non avversario, nelle aule di tribunale e fuori. Così ieri, di fronte al nuovo chiassoso passo della sua carriera, quando l'ho sentito definire da Meloni "molto vicino a Prodi", e definirsi lui già del MSI, ma "di sinistra", e oggi orientato "al PD", ho potuto riderne di cuore.

Ecco i rudimenti di un uomo in carriera. Della trentina d'anni trascorsi come neofascista e responsabile del MSI nella sua provincia calabrese hanno detto i giornali. Da avvocato, la prima occasione importante gliela diede Odoardo Ascari associandolo al patrocinio di alcune famiglie delle vittime di Piazza Fontana. Ascari (1922-2011), modenese, è stato difensore o patrono di parte civile in molti dei processi politici più importanti del dopoguerra, fino a quello palermitano (e perugino) in difesa di Giulio Andreotti. "Considerato il difensore storico dell'Arma dei carabinieri", come recitava il necrologio nella sua città, fu il promotore del famigerato trasferimento del processo per la strage di Piazza Fontana alla Corte d'Assise di Catanzaro. E là, nel 1975, col giovane Ligotti, sostenne la colpevolezza degli anarchici. Carlo Arnoldi, il cui padre era morto nella strage, poi presidente dell'Associazione delle famiglie delle vittime, ha ricordato: "Io ero da quel giorno insieme a mia mamma e alle tante mamme che cominciarono a trovarsi insieme per farsi coraggio, per cercare di capire tra di noi cosa poteva essere successo, naturalmente la maggior parte delle nostre mamme erano convinte che fossero gli anarchici, anche l’avvocato che c’era stato assegnato, l’avvocato Odoardo Ascari, lui era convinto che fossero gli anarchici e che il processo nel giro di pochi anni avrebbe dato ragione, che saremmo arrivati alla verità".

Con quella premessa Ascari rappresentò, insieme a Ligotti, la parte civile per la famiglia Calabresi nel processo contro i miei compagni e me. Durante il lungo corso di quel processo Ligotti diventò l'avvocato d'elezione di parecchi dei più sontuosi "pentiti" di mafia. Forte di questa competenza, e in particolare del patrocinio di Giovanni Brusca, nel novembre 1993, durante uno dei processi d'appello per l'omicidio Calabresi, dichiarò in aula, in mia assenza, che Mauro Rostagno era stato assassinato dalla mafia di Lotta Continua. "Anche Mauro Rostagno non è morto per lupara. Non è morto per lupara: è stato fatto tacere! Sicuramente. Ma alla vigilia di un interrogatorio per questi fatti, convocato dal Giudice... Non è morto per lupara. Questa è una storia macabra, ancora da scrivere! Ma questi erano gli uomini: loro mafiosi, perché il loro linguaggio è mafioso /.../ Io dico che la causa della morte di Rostagno –è una mia supposizione- è nei fatti di questo processo, non nella comunicazione giudiziaria: perché non è morto per lupara”. Intervenne il mio difensore, Marcello Gentili: “Signor Presidente, metto a verbale che abbandono l'aula dell'udienza: il difensore di Sofri abbandona l'udienza perché l'accusa di assassinio a una presunta mafia di Lotta Continua e quindi, indirettamente, allo stesso Adriano Sofri, l'accusa di assassinio di Mauro Rostagno eccede i limiti della difesa di Parte Civile e rende insopportabile ascoltare, criticare una discussione in questi termini...”. Presidente: "Avvocato Gentili, l'avvocato Ligotti ha fatto un'affermazione e ovviamente se ne assume la sua... se ne assume la responsabilità”.

Tre anni dopo, Ligotti ci riprovò: questa volta ad assassinare Mauro era stata Chicca, la sua compagna e madre di sua figlia Maddalena: "Le due piste, quella della faida interna a Saman e quella che porta al processo Calabresi, non si escludono a vicenda. Dietro la morte di Rostagno c'è qualcosa di grosso. E la mafia non c'entra niente... Perché insistere sulla mafia? Secondo me continua il depistaggio”.

Le sue sortite gli guadagnarono un clamore comparabile a quello che si è appena procacciato con l'esposto sul caso Almasri. Ignobile com'era, la calunnia sarebbe stata sconfessata perfino dal suo cliente Giovanni Brusca, la cui testimonianza fu tra quelle che si conclusero con la condanna della mafia, la vera, per l'assassinio di Rostagno. Intanto il curriculum di Li Gotti, così rinnovato, sospinse il suo passaggio dall'estrema destra alla destra in maschera di Di Pietro e della sua Italia dei Valori, grazie alla quale entrò da sottosegretario nel governo Prodi: ciò che ha suggerito a Giorgia Meloni l'imprudente definizione.

Di recente, Ligotti si è cimentato nella imprevista difesa di famigliari delle vittime del naufragio di Cutro. Fino all'esposto che gli ha riofferto la scena. Ispirato dall'ambizione personale, o da qualche intento collettivo - ha associato alla denuncia il sottosegretario Alfredo Mantovano, responsabile della sicurezza della repubblica, quale garagista dei Falcon di Stato - nella beata ridda di interviste e biografie Li Gotti ha trovato il modo di annunciare di essere stato "della corrente di sinistra del MSI", di essere stato iscritto "automaticamente" dagli amici ad AN fino al 1998, di aver cominciato a difendere mafiosi pentiti su richiesta di Giovanni Falcone, di non aver mai incontrato Prodi ma di sentirsi oggi vicino al PD. Ha bussato.

Poche cose sono paradossali come la pretesa che Almasri sia stato scarcerato e accompagnato in Libia da un Falcon della Presidenza del Consiglio "perché è pericoloso". Schlein e colleghe e colleghi hanno premesso ai loro commenti che la questione giudiziaria non è affar loro, al contrario della questione politica. Mi auguro che se ne ricordino strettamente, dell'una e dell'altra cosa.

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Forse non esiste angolo dell’Umbria (o meglio dell’Italia) che non offra almeno un’opera d’arte di grande interesse, anche se spesso molti capolavori sono stati nascosti da successive ridipinture o opere murarie.

Questo post è dedicato ad un’opera di Giovanni di Pietro detto “Lo Spagna”, uno dei numerosi spagnoli che a fine ‘400 si stabilì nell’Italia centrale.

Giovanissimo entrò nella bottega del Perugino a Firenze, poi soggiornò a Perugia negli anni in cui Raffaello cominciava a frequentare la città e il Pinturicchio si affermava nei palazzi romani. La nostra opera è un dipinto murale, conservato nella Chiesa di Sant’Ansano di Spoleto (Perugia), in cui è rappresentata una dolcissima “Madonna col Bambino” che, nascosta da una tela settecentesca, fu riportata alla luce soltanto nel 1907. (Grazie a Silvio Sorcini, autore della foto).

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The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Artist: Bacchiacca (Italian, 1494 - 1557)

Genre: Religious Art

Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca. He is also known as Francesco Ubertini, il Bacchiacca. He was an Italian painter of the Renaissance whose work is characteristic of the Florentine Mannerist style.

Bachiacca was born and baptized in Florence on 1 March 1494 and died there on 5 October 1557

Bachiacca belonged to a family of at least five, and possibly as many as eight artists. His father Ubertino di Bartolomeo (ca. 1446/7-1505) was a goldsmith, his older brother Bartolomeo d'Ubertino Verdi (aka Baccio 1484-c.1526/9) was a painter, and his younger brother Antonio d'Ubertino Verdi (1499–1572)—who also called himself Bachiacca—was both an embroiderer and painter. Francesco's son Carlo di Francesco Verdi (-1569) painted and Antonio's son Bartolomeo d'Antonio Verdi (aka Baccino -1600) worked as an embroiderer. This latter generation probably continued to produce paintings and embroideries after Bachiacca's death and until the Verdi family extinguished about the year 1600.

Bachiacca apprenticed in Perugino's Florentine studio, and by 1515 began to collaborate with Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo and Francesco Granacci on the decoration of cassone (chest), spalliera (wainscot), and other painted furnishings for the bedroom of Pierfrancesco Borgherini and Margherita Acciauoli. In 1523, he again participated with Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio and Pontormo in the decoration of the antechamber of Giovanni Benintendi. While he established a reputation as a painter of predellas and small cabinet pictures, he eventually expanded his output to include large altarpieces, such as the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, now in Berlin.

In 1540, Bachiacca became an artist at the court of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (reg. 1537-1574) and Duchess Eleanor of Toledo. In this capacity, Bachiacca was a colleague and peer of the most important Florentine artists of the age, including Pontormo, Bronzino, Francesco Salviati, Tribolo, Benvenuto Cellini, Baccio Bandinelli, and his in-law, the sculptor Giovanni Battista del Tasso.

Bachiacca's first major commission was to paint the walls and ceiling of the duke's private study with plants, animals and a landscape, which remain an important testimony of Cosimo's interest in botany and the natural sciences.

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18 aprile 1504: muore Filippino Lippi a Firenze

Il 18 aprile del 1504, Filippino Lippi morì in quel di Firenze a soli 47 anni, lasciando incompiuta la Deposizione che stava dipingendo per la chiesa della Santissima Annunziata di Firenze. L’opera fu portata a termine dal Perugino mentre le spoglie del Filippino furono tumulate a ridosso della chiesa di San Michele Visdomini, proprio come ricorda la targa apposta in tempi assai…

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Le mostre del weekend, da Perugino a de Chirico

(di Marzia Apice) Le pale di Perugino e gli scatti di Seymour, ma anche la pittura di de Chirico e gli animali interpretati dall’estro artistico contemporaneo: sono alcune delle mostre di questa settimana. BOLOGNA – In anteprima mondiale, a Palazzo Albergati Arthemisia presenta la mostra “Animali Fantastici. Il Giardino delle Meraviglie”, ideata e curata da Gianluca Marziani e Stefano Antonelli,…

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San Sebastiano | Perugino L’opera conservata a Galleria Borghese rappresenta San Sebastiano alla colonna. Il martire cristiano è uno dei soggetti più rappresentati dagli artisti, nel corso della storia dell’arte.

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Città della Pieve celebra il Perugino e il Rinascimento con una grande mostra

Città della Pieve si prepara a rendere omaggio al suo figlio più illustre, il Perugino, in occasione del quinto centenario dalla sua morte. Dal 2 luglio al 30 settembre, la cittadina umbra ospiterà la mostra intitolata “…al battesimo fu chiamato Pietro. Il Perugino a Città della Pieve”, curata da Vittoria Garibaldi, Francesco Federico Mancini e Nicoletta Baldini, con un intervento di Antonio…