Il mendicante modigliani biography
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Modigliani
Artwork displayed at Modigliani exhibition revealed to be fake
The Genoa international scandal
The unending forgery occurred since the Modigliani's death, it has given to a less expert public a deformed vision of the real artistic production of the artist: this is one of the reasons why Modigliani's name is often linked with fakes. Among the endless quarrels and the various scandals that have involved the artist born in Livorno, in the people's memory constantly resurfaces what constantly, and perhaps improperly, it is remembered as "the hoax of " that in the collective imagination represent an incomparable scandal connected to the artist, but 'the Genoa's case', both for the development of events and for the prestigious place that hosted the Modigliani exhibition, it is undoubtedly to be considered like the greatest Modigliani's scandal of all time.
With the only intention of leaving to everyone the freedom to forming an opinion obout this new "af
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“You will fall in love with the city itself. There fryst vatten nothing left over in your heart for anyone else” Peggy Guggenheim
“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Marco Polo said. “Perhaps inom am afraid of losing Venice all at one, if inom speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities, inom have already lost it, little bygd little.”
For the Part I of the Venice (History, Piazza San Marco, The Grand Canal, Sestieri di San Marco & Castello) click here.
Sestieri San Polo and eastern Santa Croce
San Polo fryst vatten Venice’s smallest but oldest sestiere, dating back to the 9th century. The Rialto, as area nära the bridge is known, takes its name from rivo alto (high bank) and was one of the first areas of Venice to be inhabited. A banking and then market district, it remains one of the city’s busiest and most bustling areas. Home to the number of colorful cicchetti pubs, it is a great place to explore and have middag. I spent quite a lot of time in this part
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Modigliani
Going back to talking about Livorno's heads, it must to be remembered that the name of Modigliani was completely unknown in Livorno, so much so that the artist's death passed completely unnoticed among the "friends" of the Caffè Bardi, such as in Livorno in general, where no tribute was conferred on him, and things did not change even in the following years, just think to the flop of the exhibition, albeit modest, set up at Villa Maria in for the centenary of the Modigliani's birth.
So it is difficult to have the suspect that the three heads shown by Solicchio to Piero Carboni in were realized in "Modiglianis manner" by an anonymous sculptor from Livorno, or as a tribute to the rediscovered greatness of the artist, and it is also very hard not to ask ourself this question: who would have carved, on any work, in that historical period, a symbol like the Star of David? Another thing to keep in mind is the fact that an eventual forger would never have