No.3

Autumn Equinox 2022

2022 / 123 PAGES. Language: English, Italian

2022 has been declared by the UN the ‘Year of Glass’. FMR pays tribute to this versatile material in its own way: one column dwells on the specific difficulties encountered in setting up an exhibition of artistic transparencies, while another very thorough and beautifully photographed piece shows us the work of the Blaschkas, Bohemian craftsmen who populated the museums of the world in the second half of the 19th century with their glass models of marine invertebrates.

HORS D’ŒUVRE

“Year of Glass” – Showing Glass

by David Landau

“Ephemera” – The Allure of the Gods

by Antonio Marras

“Auctions” – Fetishes of the Mona Lisa

by Simone Facchinetti

“Bibliophilia” – Butterflies

by Pietro Mercogliano

HOUSE OF SHADE AND RAINFALL

by Oscar Tusquets Blanca

photography by Rafael Vargas

The starchitect Oscar Tusquets Blanca presents the Umbracle of Barcelona, a curious building to let water and sun pour in.

FROM MT. OLYMPUS TO NIRVANA

by Renzo Freschi

readers from Giovanni Pascoli, Arnold J. Toynbee, Peter Hopkirk

photography by Giovanni Ricci Novara

Rediscover with us the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, an extraordinary example of cross-pollination between cultures and esthetics.

GALILEO AND THE KING OF SIAM

by Neungreudee Lohapon, Maurizia Bonatti Bacchini

photography by Massimo Listri

The remarkable work done by Galileo Chini to decorate the Bangkok Throne Hall.

SEA, SAND, AND FLAME: BLASCHKA GLASS

by William Warmus, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Guido Mocafico

photography by Guido Mocafico

Glassblowing and photography bring within our eyeshot the marvels that Nature has concealed in the depths.

MISTERY! UNSOLVABLE QUERIES AND SIREN SONGS

by Maurizio Bettini

A lesser-known work by Pinturicchio, the Ceiling of the Demigods, serves to illustrate a learned and captivating disquisition on mythology.