Even the great art historian Adolfo Venturi had to let down his countrymen when he admitted that the form was “regarded as ...

He traveled to Bologna, sought out his hero, and proposed what proved to be Morandi’s only commission: a still life of musical instruments. Remarkably, the famously reticent painter agreed ...

He prided himself on his solitary life. Morandi stayed on the island as its primary caretaker shortly after he shipwrecked his catamaran while attempting to sail to Polynesia in 1989 on a mission ...

A show at David Zwirner features gorgeous still lifes, austere landscapes and other works by the artist from the collection of Luigi Magnani, a composer and scholar with whom he had a close ...

Mauro Morandi was nicknamed Robinson Crusoe by the media after being identified as the sole resident of Budelli island, an old World War II shelter off the Italian island of Sardinia. He prided ...