The Mystery of Caravaggio’s Daisies

I first saw Caravaggio’s (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,1571-1610) St Francis in Ecstasy, 1595 in the exhibition titled Caravaggio 2025 at the Palazzo Barberini Rome. Made in Rome when he was …
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Europe’s new “security‑first” agenda is usually presented as a direct response to Russian aggression. That story is emotionally powerful and politically convenient, but it hides a deeper shift. Europe is …
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At the end of 2025, Giovanbattista Tusa wrote to Françoise Vergès in one of his Letters to the Unknown, the second series of Planetary Conversations. He wrote as Vergès was immersed in making a film about …
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