Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
A Renaissance Echo in Modern Italian Painting Virgilio Guidi stands as a singular, defiant figure within the turbulent panorama of twentieth-century Italian art. While his contemporaries were swept up in the frenetic energy of Expressionism or the dreamlike distortions of Surrealism, Guidi chose a different path—one that sought a profound connection to the classical ideals of the past. Born in Rome in 1891 into an artistic lineage, wit
h a father who was a sculptor, his early years were steeped in the creative atmosphere of the Eternal City. This foundational exposure fostered a deep-seated reverence for the masters of the Italian Renaissance, such as Giotto, Piero della Francesca, and Correggio. His formal training at the Scuola Libera di Pittura and later the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, under the guidance of Armando Spadini, provided him with the technical rig…