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Issue #28: Our #100essentials to...Experience

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Dear Hypercritics,
In our last chapter dedicated to the #100 essentials (for now), we want you to get to know one of our most exciting sections. This week we talk about #Experience, a large part of our website that collects the most important works of art from every time. 🎨
Today we start from medieval art to land in the contemporary. Enjoy your journey! 🖼️

From the 1300s
The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim
The Allegory of Good and Bad Government has a didactic aim
Through examples taken from everyday life, The Allegory of Good and Bad Government produces a declaration of political and didactic intent.
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From the 1400s
Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography
Saint Jerome in his study | A new humanist iconography
In his Saint Jerome, Antonello da Messina wanted to convey a new iconography for humanist intellectuals. His Saint Jerome looks to us as a scholar.
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From the 1500s
Teatro Olimpico | Is the greatness of things merely an appearance?
Teatro Olimpico | Is the greatness of things merely an appearance?
The Teatro Olimpico is a Renaissance-era theater built in the Italian city of Vicenza. It’s the last work of the architect Andrea Palladio
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From the 1600s
The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies
The Nativity | Art comes alive with new technologies
The Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi is a work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio. Painted in 1600…was stolen in 1969.
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Judith Beheading Holofernes | Stories of women and revenge
Judith Beheading Holofernes | Stories of women and revenge
Artemisia Gentileschi, was a 17th-century Caravaggesque artist. Artemisia painted Judith Beheading Holofernes in 1620 for Cosimo II de Medici.
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The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light
The Chapel of the Holy Shroud is a journey towards the light
Guarini’s Chapel of the Holy Shroud provides for a journey from the earthly realm’s darkness towards the extraordinary light of the cupola.
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From the 1800s
Ophelia | An artistic treaty on Melancholia
Ophelia | An artistic treaty on Melancholia
Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais painted Ophelia in London, between 1851-1852. It is currently on display at the Tate Gallery, London.
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Doré and the horror vacui in Dante's Divine Comedy
Doré and the horror vacui in Dante's Divine Comedy
Doré’s artistic fortune focused on the illustrations of classical or contemporary texts. He shows the horror vacui in Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world
Isle of the Dead | Floating inside the inner world
From 1880 to 1886, the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin realized five versions of his most famous work, the Isle of the Dead.
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From the 1900s
Marzella | The passage from childhood to puberty
Marzella | The passage from childhood to puberty
E.L. Kirchner’s Marzella represents the passage from childhood to puberty, a skinny body in contrast with heavy makeup on her face.
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The City Rises is Umberto Boccioni's first Futurist work
The City Rises is Umberto Boccioni's first Futurist work
The City rises is Umberto Boccioni’s first Futurist painting, which dates back to the years 1910-1911.
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Skyspace-1 | An experience of sensory awareness
Skyspace-1 | An experience of sensory awareness
James Turrell’s Skyspace-1 in Villa Panza is an artwork that creates an immersive experience of sensory awareness by using light.
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The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem
The BLM Banksy Painting exposes a white problem
British artist Banksy released his BLM Painting in June 2020 in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests following George Floyd’s death.
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