Miuccia Prada heads the Foundation
Miuccia Prada has formalized her role as Fondazione Prada’s Director and confirmed her personal commitment to present and future projects, as she has done in the last three decades.
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For Mario Masenza the jewel is a work of art
In the post-war Rome was born a completely original creative project, whose aim is to encourage famous artists to work in the rare field of goldsmith.
The recovery of the “Madonna and Child reading” by Andrea Solario
by Lavinia Galli, Conservator of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan
The delightful Madonna and Child Reading by Andrea Solario (documented from 1495-1524), which was restored by Paola Zanolini thanks to the generosity of Wannenes, is a happy recovery for several reasons..
Methodological notes for the restoration of the “Madonna and Child Reading” by Andrea Solario
by Paola Zanolini, restorer
The restoration of a board painting is always a complex intervention as it has to deal with different conservation issues: those involving the support, the pictorial layer, the gilding and even the frame.
Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty
Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…
Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty
Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…
Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty
Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics,…
Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Through art we know beauty
Today, the collection comprises more than 6000 objects including paintings, sculptures, ceramics, glass, weapons, gold, watches and textiles. For each collection, the museum holds extraordinary masterpieces, considered by critical literature to be the most important in the world. (…)
Fausto Melotti. Anti – sculpture with music and poetry
by Francesca Pola
The creative language of Fausto Melotti, one of the most important figures of European sculpture from the 1930’s onwards, developed into greater maturity in Milan between the two wars, a city in which abstract art and rationalist architecture (…)
Villa Necchi Campiglio and the original modernity
by Lucia Borromeo
Milan, Via Mozart 14: a historic address in the centre of one of the busiest cities in Europe. At this address, hidden right at the very heart of the metropolis and in the middle of a garden with a swimming pool and vegetable garden, lies Villa Necchi Campiglio, a house that was built between 1932 and 1935, by Piero Portaluppi.