A BRIEF JOURNEY IN THE MANNERIST SYMBOLISM

It is often said, and rightly so, that many Mannerist works are imbued with symbols that are not always easy to recognize and interpret. Let’s go and see one of them, and in order not to bother the overused “Allegory of the Triumph of Venus” we will choose another one, also by Bronzino, but much […]

“THAT ONLY HIMSELF AND NOTHING ELSE RESEMBLES” VICINO ORSINI AND THE SACRED WOOD OF BOMARZO

In the context of late Renaissance gardens of the mid-sixteenth century, the Sacred Wood of Bomarzo occupies a position that is both eccentric and exemplary. The apparent contradiction is nourished by its being a unicum that moves the limit of artifice much further than its contemporaries dared to do (and does so, paradoxically, renouncing the […]