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21/10/2026

Henri Bellechose (1380ca.-1445)

Retable de Saint Georges 1416
Olio su tavola , trasferito su tela montata su pannello
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon
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21/10/2026

Felice Casorati, “Annunciazione”, 1927. Olio su tavola. Milano, Collezione privata.

Bella e toccante questa Annunciazione di Felice Casorati. Silenzio, intimità e rassegnazione.

21/10/2026

Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Stories of Saint Nicholas: The Boy Killed by the Devil and Brought Back to Life, c. 1332–1334. Originally from San Procolo, Florence; Uffizi Galleries.

A child’s death seems to place an absolute boundary between what can be lost and what can never be recovered. Yet in the stories of Saint Nicholas, Ambrogio Lorenzetti explores a world in which this boundary is not beyond the reach of faith.

The episode of the boy killed by the devil and restored to life brings together two opposing forces: the vulnerability of innocence and the possibility of redemption. The child embodies a life that has barely begun, while the intervention associated with the saint transforms tragedy into a testimony of hope.

What makes such stories endure is not simply the promise of a miracle. It is the human need to believe that destruction does not always have the final word. Medieval religious painting gave visible form to this longing, translating spiritual convictions into episodes that viewers could remember, contemplate, and make part of their own understanding of the world.

Lorenzetti belonged to a period when painting was beginning to give sacred narratives an increasingly tangible human presence. Even when the subject belongs to the realm of the miraculous, the emotional stakes remain recognisable: the terror of losing someone vulnerable, the helplessness before violence, and the desire to see life restored where hope has disappeared.

The devil represents a destructive force, but the child’s return confronts that force with something it cannot ultimately possess: the possibility of renewal.
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21/10/2026

Bernard van Orley, 1487 - 1541 (pittore fiammingo)
Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino, 1520 ca
Olio su tavola, 98 x 71 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

20/10/2026

Beato Angelico (Italian; c. 1395 - 1455) ”Madonna of Humility”, c. 1430, Tempera on panel, 62.8 × 47.2 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
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20/10/2026

Piet Mondrian
Woods near Oele, 1908.

20/10/2026

Nu (1938) “Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm” [Musée d’Ixelles - Museum van Elsene, Brussels, Belgium] — Louis Buisseret (Belgian; 1888 - 1956)

Louis Buisseret (1888 – 1956) was a Belgian painter, draughtsman and engraver. He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Mons under Emile Motte (1860 - 1931) and Louis Joseph Greuse (1863 - 1950), before going to Brussels where he continued his studies under Jean Delville (1867 - 1953) and Herman Richir (1866 - 1942). In 1910 he was placed second in the Painting section for the Prix de Rome, which he won the following year for Engraving. He was much influenced by his time in Rome. In 1928 he was one of the founding members of the Nervia group of artists, and the following year was appointed Principal of Mons Academie; a post he held until 1949. He died in Brussels in 1956.
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20/10/2026

Luca Signorelli, The Archangel Gabriel, c. 1490. Oil on panel, fragment of The Annunciation, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

A white lily rests in Gabriel’s hand, its delicate purity contrasting with the quiet authority of his profile. His long, curling hair and graceful fingers give the figure an almost sculptural elegance, while the precise contours reflect the refined visual language of late fifteenth-century Central Italian painting.

Yet the angel’s beauty is more than an exercise in formal perfection. Gabriel stands at the threshold of one of the most consequential encounters in Christian tradition: the Annunciation, the moment when a message from the divine enters the fragile world of human existence.

The lily symbolizes Mary’s purity, but the flower also invites a wider reflection. It suggests that some of life’s most profound transformations begin with something remarkably delicate. A message, a gesture, a possibility not yet understood can alter the course of everything that follows.

Signorelli, one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, gives this messenger a face of extraordinary serenity. There is no visible urgency, no theatrical display. His presence seems to belong to that suspended instant before words acquire their full meaning, when the future remains unknown but is already approaching.

The painting is preserved as a fragment of a larger Annunciation, whose Virgin Mary is now in a private collection. Its attribution has also prompted scholarly discussion: the Walters Art Museum acknowledges the involvement of workshop assistants, while art historian Lawrence Kanter has argued for Signorelli’s own hand.

Perhaps this distinction between the master’s hand and the workshop’s contribution echoes something fitting about the image itself. Great works emerge through a meeting of individual vision, human collaboration, and the traces of time.
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20/10/2026

Antonello da Messina, San Cassiano Altarpiece, c. 1475. Oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

There is a remarkable stillness in Antonello da Messina’s Madonna and Child. Their presence does not demand attention through grand gestures or theatrical emotion. Instead, it draws us into a quieter encounter, where intimacy and solemnity coexist.

Antonello’s mastery lies in the delicate balance between the human and the sacred. The Virgin is not simply an untouchable figure of devotion. Her physical presence, the tenderness of her relationship with the Child, and the subtle naturalism of their features bring the divine into the realm of human experience.

Painted around 1475, the San Cassiano Altarpiece reflects Antonello’s distinctive ability to unite the precision of Flemish-inspired oil painting with the compositional harmony of the Italian Renaissance. Even in this detail, the sacred seems to emerge not from distance, but from the extraordinary depth of ordinary human presence.

Perhaps this is what makes the image so compelling. The Madonna holds the Child, yet their relationship speaks beyond the language of religious iconography. It evokes the fragile bond between those who protect and those who depend on them, between love and responsibility, between the desire to preserve what we cherish and the knowledge that nothing can remain untouched by time.

The divine becomes accessible through tenderness. And tenderness, in turn, reveals something profoundly human: that the deepest forms of love do not need to announce themselves. They exist in the quiet space between two beings, where presence alone becomes a form of grace.

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20/10/2026

Martin Došek
Elsewhere and Another Time, analog collage, 2022.

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