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There have been many artists who suffered from visual impairments and disorders, such as Piero della Francesca, or Claude Monet. For most, physiological aging was the cause of blindness. However, for Jean-Juliean Lemordant there was a very different cause. He … Read the full article The First World War mobilized millions of soldiers from all social classes and occupations, and artists were no exception. Albert Dalimier, the French Minister of Fine Arts, stated that the artist should be as pugnacious in battle as he is … Read the full article Flaubert declared of his best-known character, Emma Bovary, that: “Madame Bovary, c’est moi.” While Pavese never explicitly made a similar claim, there are undoubtedly elements of self-portraiture in both Clelia and Rosetta in Among Women Only. Clelia’s return to her … Read the full article At the beginning of 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission published Food in the Anthropocene, a consideration of healthy diets from sustainable food systems.1 The authors observed that “A healthy diet should optimize health, defined broadly as being a state of complete … Read the full article Cesare Pavese’s last novel, Among Women Only (Tra donne sole), is an example of the well-known maxim ‘life imitates art’. Pavese’s diaries, published posthumously after his suicide, showed a man tormented by depression who had considered suicide many times previously. … Read the full article In an upcoming contribution to Sight and Life Magazine, Jonathan Steffen explores the search for holistic diets in a constantly evolving world, featuring findings from the EAT-Lancet Commission published in January 2019. The EAT-Lancet Commission launched quantitatively calculated guidelines designed … Read the full article
Jean-Julien Lemordant: The “Painter with Closed Eyelids”
Maurice Prost: The Resilient Body
Self-portraits in the work of Cesare Pavese
Diets for a Complex World: The search for wholeness
Stopping to notice
Data-driven dietary developments