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10
Mar
On the way of liberation in Narcissus, a painting attributed to Caravaggio

For the first of my video-journeys exploring the world of the Arts (at the end of the article) I have chosen Narcissus, a painting attributed to the most controversial artist of the period between the end of 16th and beginning of 17th centuries: Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio. The artwork is at the Ancient Art […]

Posted in: Art Education, Fairy Tales, Mithes and Art, the arts,
Tags: Archetipes, Art and Philosophy, Art and Psychology, caravaggio, Museo di Arte Antica, Museum of Ancient Art of Palazzo Barberini, Narcissus, Palazzo Barberini, the Penitent Magdalene,
30
Nov
1
A spiritual journey through the Vatican gardens

  (…) I crossed my second threshold and I definitively emerged from the darkness of the forest, metaphor of that spirit overshadowed by the lack of knowledge. I found myself in front of some long avenues converging towards a focal point. I felt my lungs suddenly revive: the light was no longer held back and […]

Posted in: Art Education,
Tags: eclectic gardens, gardens, gardens in Rome, Historical gardens, historical gardens of Rome, papal gardens, Roman gardens, Vatican gardens,
23
Nov
1
The Artist who Applied the Glow of the Divine with a Flat Brush: Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Sistine Chapel

When you study Michelangelo Buonarroti from the official books, you may not  often find it helpful if you are looking for something more than his techniques, superficial iconography, historical context and even his rebellious and sometimes said “hysterical” personality. From those books, it is almost impossible to reach his soul to really grasp what lies […]

Posted in: Art Education,
Tags: esoterism in the Sistine chapel, flat brush, initiate, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo in the Sistine chapel, Neoplatonic education, Neoplatonism, Pico della Mirandola, The Sistine Chapel, The talmud in the Sistine chapel, trompe l'oeil,
09
Nov
The viaticum: a journey to the Sacred

In ancient Rome, anyone who decided to start a journey would carry their own travel bag with them: the so-called viaticum. Over time, this word, viaticum, ended up suggesting the journey itself. Not necessarily the physical one and not even the travels we normally consume better than undertake them spiritually. A journey was only the […]

Posted in: the arts,
Tags: a journey to the Sacred, cult, esoterism, fairy tales, initiate, Jacob's ladder, journey, kaballah, lack of self love, materiality and spirituality, Middrash, mistical teachings, mythology, Neoplatonism, philosophy, Talmud, the Sacred, uncounscious, viaticum, ying and yang,
10
Nov
The renewed garden of St. John in the Lateran’s cloister

If you like to discover which is the most charming medieval cloister in Rome, for sure  you will have to visit the basilica of John in the Lateran’s. And It is also the largest one with its 118,00 feet (36 metres) per side! An unquestioned masterpiece by the Vassallettos, the famous marble-worker family under the […]

Posted in: Art Education,