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The n**e of a woman that remained hidden for a whopping 118 years is part of Picasso's blue period.
"At the time Picasso painted The Lonesome Crouching N**e and The Blind Man's Meal he was poor and the artist's materials were expensive, so he probably painted over the earlier work reluctantly," commented George Cann, one of the founders of Oxia Palus along with Anthony Bourached. "While X-ray images are useful for revealing the images that were painted over, Artificial Intelligence adds another layer to our analysis," said the latter.

The work of Lingeri and Terragni, illustrated in the exhibition through the original materials, conserved in the Lingeri Archive in Milan and never exhibited in their entirety, is put into dialogue with the Ideal City, an iconic masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and a key work in the collections of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. Among them, other works by contemporary Italian architects such as Aimaro Isola, Andrea Branzi and Franco Purini, who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings. The exhibition therefore proposes to give space to a composite vision of Dante's eschatology, comparing the works of contemporary Italian architects who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings, in dialogue with the two ideal visions of the Danteum and the Ideal City. The objective is therefore to recompose the city of God, or rather the city of Dante's thought, and the city of men, also through a clarification of the visual and conceptual relationship between Dante's traditional imagery and its current interpretation, which is used as a starting point for a broader reflection aimed at looking at the complex and changing comparison between story and image, filtered through powerful and original visions that reflect on the fragile nature of the contemporary world reread through the eyes of Dante.

The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino is celebrating the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death with a special exhibition: "City of God. City of Men. Dante's Architectures and Urban Utopias," curated by Luigi Gallo and Luca Molinari, scheduled from November 25, 2021 to March 27, 2022, focusing on the influence Dante's imagery has had on the vision of artists, architects and illustrators. In particular, the exhibition focuses on the project of the rationalist architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni, who at the end of the 1930s, on behalf of the Fascist regime, elaborated the image of the , a building that was never realized, which was supposed to give shape to Dante's imaginary in an ideal architecture full of symbolism. It was the first time that architecture was called upon to give habitable form to Dante's masterpiece, but the outbreak of World War II made the undertaking impossible.

The Park will also organize special visits to the construction site of the House of Orion and the Garden (with restricted access and differentiated routes for a guided tour in safety), where work is underway on the final restoration and coverage preparatory to the permanent opening of the entire area. In the houses there are important decorations (the mosaic of Orion with the unpublished iconography and the paintings of the triclinium of the house of the garden), also emerged and secured during the excavations of the Regio V, connected to the wider intervention of securing the excavation fronts, provided by the Grande Progetto Pompei.

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