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Michelangelo Merisi is thought to have been born in Milan in 1571. Caravaggio is the town where he was raised by his mother after his father, a builder and architect, died of plague...
Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely...
Some call it fashion, others may call it the theater of the absurd. Last week in Milan a couple of unassuming goats shared a runway with a farmhand and some models. The occasion was the 20th anniversary of the house of Dolce & Gabbana, which was held at the designers' slick new space in the old Metropol theater where Maria Callas famously recorded her interpretation of Norma. Guests including actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Chloë Sevigny watched a movie documenting two decades of D&G's sexy, streamlined signatures before the models stomped out in fresh white eyelet bustier dresses...
...life, shedding leaves and branches as she goes - though never the sense that she belongs someplace else. Eventually, she can recall only one word of Kyrgyz, her native tongue: kuraj. Di Natale is herself something of a kuraj. Born 54 years ago in Genoa, she studied in Milan and Monaco, became an ethnosociologist (known for her monograph on Andalusian farm workers) and settled in Germany, where she lives with her husband and son. For Kuraj, Di Natale interviewed scholars of Central Asia, Stalingrad veterans, former prison-camp inmates, Cologne civilians who survived the war and a Tunshan woman she calls...
Enrico Cernuschi was a man of passion. Born in Milan in 1821, he was such a fiery supporter of Italian independence from Austrian rule that he was forced to flee to Paris in 1850. There he Frenchified his first name to Henri and channeled his energy toward more lucrative pursuits, helping to found the Banque de Paris. In 1871, appalled by the turmoil of the Paris Commune, a workers' revolution, he took himself and the young art critic Theodore Duret on a world tour, during which he focused on collecting Asian art. Voraciously acquisitive, he was as likely...