No.5

Vernal Equinox 2023

2023 / 126 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

This spring issue inaugurates a column by Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, “Mr. PA Goes to the Museum”: the writer takes us on his strolls through the world’s museums; in this first outing, we visit New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to admire Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Views of Rome. With the same inquisitive delight as Mr. PA, the new FMR is savoring its second year of discoveries.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Mr. PA Goes to the Museum” – Panini’s Kaleidoscope of Rome

by Orhan Pamuk

“Conjectures” – “The Moon Snows, the Sphinx Glows”

by Gloria Fossi

“Auctions” – Sleepers

by Simone Facchinetti

NEO-ANDEAN BAROQUE

by Marco Paladines Valarezo

photography by Florencia Blanco, Tatewaki Nio, Marco Paladines Valarezo, Yuri Segalerba, Alfredo Zeballos

The Neo-Andean Baroque buildings by the Bolivian acrhitect Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, above La Paz.

THE GARDEN OF LUCIAN F.

by Giovanni Aloi and Stefano Mancuso

Lucian Freud’s plant portraits, only recently brought into the spotlight and associated with the renown of his celebrated portraits of people.

THE TABLES OF CEASAR AND CARDINALS

by Alvar González-Palacios

Magnificent tables of marble and inlaid stones made in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century.

LIGHTER THAN AIR

by Donald Campbell, Barnaba Fornasetti & Stefano Salis

Screenwriter Don Campbell brings us his treatment for a television series in development, Icarus, the story of humankind’s first lighter-than-air flights.

OTHER PEOPLE’S HOMES

by Giovanni Mariotti

A touching article by Giovanni Mariotti, written in a single burst without punctuation, offering us a portrait of the Macchiaiolo painter Silvestro Lega.