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Jean-Julien Lemordant: The “Painter with Closed Eyelids”
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
Maurice Prost: The Resilient Body
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
Self-portraits in the work of Cesare Pavese
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
Stopping to notice
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
Data-driven dietary developments
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
Champions of neurodegenerative disease
There is one thing that celebrities as wide-ranging as Aaron Copland, Glen Campbell and Muhammed Ali have in common: all three suffered from a neurodegenerative condition such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s. Many other famous names could be added to this … Read the full article