8354
No. 8
Winter Solstice 2023
2023 / 126 PAGES.
Language: English, Italian
In our cover story, Roger Caillois and Detlef Heikamp explore the exquisitely unintentional art of stones. Richard Meyer and William Saroyan recall the dreamlike paintings of Morris Hirshfield, the misunderstood, humble visionary who had a brief but brilliant career in 1940s New York. The Masone Labyrinth presents Orhan Pamuk’s notebooks, hybrid works of art and text that reveal the evocative inner life of this Nobel laureate and visual artist manqué (Stefano Salis). Giorgio Villani writes on 17th-c. Sicilian altar frontals in which inset marble, jasper, and other semiprecious stones evoke otherworldly holy scenes. And Rui Galopim de Carvalho explores the remarkable transformation in the culture of jewelry-making in Portugal with the sudden influx of diamonds and gems from 18th-c. Brazil.
HORS D'ŒUVRE
“Éphémèra” – Of Sand and Clouds
by Giovanni Mariotti
“Conjectures” – The Polychrome Altar & the Unpainted Saint
by Giorgio Antei
“Auctions” – A Sleeping Martyr in St. Louis
di Massimo Navoni
NATURAL MAGIC
By Roger Caillois (with an Introduction by Pietro Mercogliano)
Vittorio Sgarbi, Detlef Heikamp
photography by François Farges, Massimo Listri
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
MASTER OF THE TWO LEFT FEET
by Richard Meyer
with a text by William Saroyan
The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.
LANDSCAPES GLIMPSED IN A DREAM
by Stefano Salis
with Transcriptions of Pages from Orhan Pamuk’s Notebooks
photography by Emre Dörter
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in which words and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
THE TECHNICOLOR MARBLE OF SICILY
by Giorgio Villani
photography by Massimo Listri
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
GEMS OF THE BRIGANTINE DYNASTY
by Rui Galopim de Carvalho
photography by Massimo Listri
The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.
“Éphémèra” – Of Sand and Clouds
by Giovanni Mariotti
“Conjectures” – The Polychrome Altar & the Unpainted Saint
by Giorgio Antei
“Auctions” – A Sleeping Martyr in St. Louis
di Massimo Navoni
NATURAL MAGIC
By Roger Caillois (with an Introduction by Pietro Mercogliano)
Vittorio Sgarbi, Detlef Heikamp
photography by François Farges, Massimo Listri
Roger Caillois’s collection of stones and Giovanni Pratesi’s collection of Arno river rocks and pebbles.
MASTER OF THE TWO LEFT FEET
by Richard Meyer
with a text by William Saroyan
The life and work of the Polish-Jewish painter Morris Hirshfield, who worked in the United States from 1937 in 1946.
LANDSCAPES GLIMPSED IN A DREAM
by Stefano Salis
with Transcriptions of Pages from Orhan Pamuk’s Notebooks
photography by Emre Dörter
The Moleskine notebooks of Nobel Laureate for Literature Orhan Pamuk, in which words and images meld and mingle, on exhibit at the Masone Labyrinth.
THE TECHNICOLOR MARBLE OF SICILY
by Giorgio Villani
photography by Massimo Listri
Five Palermitan altar frontals of marble inlay, now housed in two different churches, are ideally reunited in these pages.
GEMS OF THE BRIGANTINE DYNASTY
by Rui Galopim de Carvalho
photography by Massimo Listri
The glittering jewelry collection of the Royal House of Braganza, preserved at Lisbon’s Palácio Nacional da Ajuda.