An interesting article about Italian photographer Mark Abouzeid posing modern immigrants as masterpiece stars of Renaissance painting. Here is the link to the Huffingtonpost's page: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/renaissance-portraits-reimagined-artist-mark-abouzeid_n_3016572.html
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| Original portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga (1504-1505) by Raphael, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. |
The photographer's idea started as a joke out of his frustration by noticing that Florence looks at its past as a static object.
My mind went immediately to my blog and me as a doppelganger of a popular ceramic portrait that I found in a ceramic art book. By having my portrait done as a Renaissance lady I felt how anachronistic my past could be if I repeated it as easy as that, sic et simpliciter in Latin. Nevertheless, that's how my story started. I let first the Renaissance period, my classical past, and my family's art heritage flow through me starting from my Bertabella lover's cup. Now it's time to grind everything into a fine powder and build something new. I'm ready!
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| Detail of my lover's cup painted in 2009 by artist and friend Romano Ranieri. |
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