Month: October 2023

  The artist and academic Junko Theresa Mikuriya has created a series of 15 photographs entitled The Sacrilege of Bridges especially for Poetry & Magic. … Read more

  With impressive scholarship, Anita Seppilli explored the relationship of poetry and magic in her classic text Poesia e magia. She argued that magic is … Read more

Anita Schwarzkopf was born in Fiume (Rijeka) on 29 August 1902 and went to school in Trieste. Her father Emilio Schwarzkopf was a timber merchant … Read more

John Hamilton Mortimer, Caliban from Twelve Characters from Shakespeare, 1775, etching.   Inscription: CALIBAN.  Do not torment me prithee / I’ll bring my wood home … Read more

Remember based on an interview with Ana Maria Pacheco Something curious happened during the making of Remember: the piece became more diffuse as the artist … Read more

In chapter 4 of Poesia e magia, Seppilli summarised her findings, and outlined the remaining hypotheses she goes on to analyse in the second half … Read more

Johann Friedrich Greuter, Portrait of Giambattista Marino, after Simon Vouet, 1630-40, engraving.   Inscription: Ioannes Baptista Marinus Eques/ Simon Vouet pinx. / Fed. Greuter incid. … Read more

Lucas Vorsterman, Pastoral Scene, after Parmigianino, 1620s, engraving.   This engraving of a pastoral scene reproduces in reverse a carefully finished pen and ink drawing … Read more

Poesia e Magia / Poetry & Magic – Celebrating Anita Seppilli   Exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square, 7-30 November, Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, … Read more