Mauro Morandi, who has died aged 85, stumbled upon the picturesque Mediterranean island of Budelli, which lies between Corsica and Sardinia in Italy’s Maddalena archipelago, in 1989 after his ...

A man dubbed “Italy’s Robinson Crusoe” for living alone on a tiny Mediterranean island for over three decades died on Jan. 3 — three years after he returned to civilization. Mauro Morandi, 85, spent ...

Celebrating 60 years since Giorgio Morandi’s (1890–1964) death, the Galleria Mattia De Luca has brought to New York a stunning exhibition of 60 works by the Italian painter and printmaker.

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

On “Giorgio Morandi: Time Suspended, part II” at Mattia De Luca Gallery, New York. When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed ...

Each day for the past 29 years, Mauro Morandi has woken up to a golden sunrise illuminating the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a view that doesn’t grow old – and one Morandi doesn’t share with a single soul.

In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art ...

When I heard that the hammer price on a painting by Giorgio Morandi had set an online record at Sotheby’s, my first thought was, Aha! The tortoise had beaten the hare. This Italian artist was an ...

Inspired curatorial efforts are rare these days, so even the idea of pairing still lifes by Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964) with nearly monochrome abstractions by Robert Ryman (b. 1930) excites the ...