#italian artists

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Alfredo Baruffi (1873-1948), 'Primo Specchio' (First Mirror) ''Novissima'', #5, 1905 Source

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Artists: Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)

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Portrait of a Young Man (Portrait of a Gentleman in His Study) Lorenzo Lotto (Italian; ca. 1480–1556) ca. late 1520s Oil on canvas Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice, Italy

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February 23rd 2024 - Today is Pinocchio Day - Geppeto carving out pinocchio from a block of wood.

Illustration by Italian artist Carlo Collodi 1826 - 1890.

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Detail, Mort de la bienheureuse Ludovica Albertoni, de la chapelle Altieri

(Death of the Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, from the Altieri Chapel)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1674

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Dalida - The Beloved European Singer’s Calabrian Roots

Although she became famous worldwide as Dalida, she was born Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt, on 17 January 1933.

What is Dalida's Calabrian connection? Her father Pietro Gigliotti (1904–1945) and mother Filomena Giuseppina (née d’Alba; 1904–1971) were born in Serrastretta, Calabria, in Italy. Pietro studied music in school and played violin in taverns; Giuseppina was a seamstress.

Dalida was born in Egypt after her parents settled there, a move they made so that her father could pursue his career as a concert violinist.

By birth, Dalida automatically gained Italian nationality through jus sanguinis of both Italian parents.

Dalida singing the traditional Calabrian song "Calabrisella mia" (translation: "My sweet Calabrian girl") with actor John Dorelly on Italian national television:

She and her parents have maintained a strong bond with their roots over time, not only emotional, but also cultural and bureaucratic.

Dalida, in fact, even after moving to France, maintained her Italian citizenship and became French, with dual citizenship, only with her marriage to Lucien Morisse in 1961.

Dalida's visit to that small mountain town in Calabria, where her parents were born, Serrastretta, was unforgettable.

The singer decided to include an extra charity concert date in Catanzaro in her Italian tour, precisely to travel for the first time to the town that was the birthplace of her loved ones. Here she visited the house where her parents lived before moving to Egypt:

And she also met her cousins and her great-aunt who was still alive, played the tambourine and embraces the football team that bears his name.

The much idolized Dalida, the first woman to win the Platinum Record and for whom the Diamond Record was created, took to the stage of the Municipal Theatre of Serrastretta. All the newspapers talked about it. And at the moment of her departure from Sant'Eufemia station (modern Lamezia Terme), the tears flowed freely, so much so that a few days before the end of the tour, Dalida wrote to the mayor.

A shot that immortalizes Dalida's visit to the mountain village of Serrastretta, photographed next to the then mayor, Menotti Mancuso (1962)

«I would like to express to you again all the joy I felt in getting to know my family's town - wrote Dalida following a visit to Serrastretta in the 1960s -, and thank you for the warm and enthusiastic welcome you gave me. I will never forget the emotion I felt in finding myself among all of you and I ask you to pass on, both to my cousins and to all the inhabitants of Serrastretta, the thanks that come from the bottom of my heart."

Dalida in Calabria in 1962, photographed by Ezio Arcuri, upon arrival at the Sant'Eufemia Lamezia station (reportage archive)

Dalida spent her early years in Egypt’s bustling Italian Egyptian community but she lived most of her adult life in France.

Beloved singer both in Italy and France, unforgettable queen of the Paris Olympia, during her career she sold over 170 million albums all over the world, also earning the first diamond record in history in 1981, created specifically for her.

Away from the spotlight, however, many great sorrows accompanied his life, which was interrupted - at the age of 54 - on 3 May 1987 by an overdose of barbiturates. «La vie m'est unbearable. Pardonnez moi/Forgive me, life is unbearable for me" wrote Dalida in her farewell note, found on the bedside table of her bedroom, in the villa at number 11 bis Rue d'Orchampt in Montmartre.

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Federico Cuccuini "Pinocchio"

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Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1598-99

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Alfredo Baruffi (1873-1948), ''Novissima'', #7, 1907 Source

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Dante and Virgil Entering Purgatory, 1844, by Domenico Morelli

Christian souls reach Purgatory by boat, escorted by an angel.

Inferno, 1863, by Tommaso De Vivo

Dante and Virgil meet with the great poets of antiquity in Limbo

Purgatorio, 1865, by Tommaso De Vivo

A chariot representing the triumphant Church moves towards Dante, announcing the appearance of Beatrice, Dante’s great love.

Paradiso by Tommaso De Vivo, 1865

Beatrice presents Dante to St. Peter who questions him about the meaning of faith in the presence of St. John the Evangelist, St. James, and Adam.

Photos by Charles Reeza at the Palazzo Reale di Napoli

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Supper at Emmaus Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian; 1571–1610) 1606 Oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy

Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass. And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened. And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden that they should not know him. And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad? And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days? And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people: And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.… And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further. But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them. And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? (Luke 24: 12–20, 28–32)

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Leonetto Cappiello

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1922