ساحة الإمبراطور أغسطس، 10، روما، إيطاليا (Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 10, Rome, Italy) 0039063080400
One hundred works from some of the most important national and international public and private collections, as well as a group of historical works still owned by the artist, trace the story of the multifaceted path of Carla Accardi, one of the great protagonists of visual culture not only in Italy. Between the post-war period and the 2000s, Accardi went through the various seasons of Italian art, contributing to the birth and development of new ways of understanding the work of art, from abstract to informal painting, from conceptual painting to environment, from an art marked by the demands of feminism to the energetic painting of the 1980s, up to the grandiose syntheses of the 1990s and 2000s. Pruner of a powerful communicative force, Carla Accardi has always dialogued with younger artists and intellectuals over the various seasons of her work, keeping her curiosity about the world alive.
Cultured and lovers of the arts, the Farneses put together a vast collection which included paintings, ancient sculptures, sketches, drawings and manuscripts. Today much of it is brought together in an exhibition.
Within the history of the lapidary arts, the so-called “CABOCHON” cut is considered one of the oldest techniques of cutting gems.
Appreciated since Antiquity, this technique was practiced by craftsmen from China to the Mediterranean basin, via India, because it highlighted the color of the gemstones.
The CABOCHON cut became a signature of ...