Fmr No. 13: Vernal Equinox 2025

By Franco Maria Ricci Editore

Serafini at the Masone Labyrinth. "Sweertsmania" by Facchinetti. Villani on Sert's grisaille murals. Godoli on Bohemian visionary Hablik. G mez on Carpaccio's Prado flowers. Antei on young Botero. Amy Durrell tells of Atlanta's big-screen Cyclorama. Napoleone on Barberi's Rome.

Serafini at the Masone Labyrinth. "Sweertsmania" by Facchinetti. Villani on Sert's grisaille murals. Godoli on Bohemian visionary Hablik. G mez on Carpaccio's Prado flowers. Antei on young Botero. Amy Durrell tells of Atlanta's big-screen Cyclorama. Napoleone on Barberi's Rome.

Issue 13 opens with a Serafini show, "Madcappery and Genius," at Masone Labyrinth. "Sweertsmania" reigns with art by Sweert, by Simone Facchinetti. In "Modern Baroque," Giorgio Villani explores Catalan muralist Josep Maria Sert and a client list ranging from Rockefellers to French princesses: lavish abundance in stunning grisaille. In "Crystals, Castles, Seas, and Stars" Ezio Godoli explores the visionary work of Bohemian Wenzel Hablik. In "When Knighthood Was in Flower," Eduardo Barba G mez describe the floral codes implicit in a painting by Vittore Carpaccio, pride of the Prado. In "Portrait of Botero as a Young Man," Giorgio Antei recalls an artist he once knew in nine parables: how the underfed young Botero invented an esthetic of plumpness. In "His Terrible Swift Brush," Amy Durrell tells how, long before "Gone with the Wind," Atlanta adopted its own big-screen epic of the Civil War. In "Notes from Underground, Caterina Napoleone recalls how Giuseppe Barberi told Rome a tale of its own history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F3VPXJ72
• ISBN13: 9791280294746
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci Editore
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.0" x 12.0"