Volume 53, Number 12 · July 13, 2006
The Light of Antonello
By Ingrid D. Rowland
Antonello da Messina
Catalog of the exhibition by Mauro Lucco, with essays by Dominique Thiébaut, Till-Holger Borchert, and others
an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, March 18–June 25, 2006
Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 384 pp., E35.00 (paper)
Antonello da Messina e la pittura del '400 in Sicilia
by Giorgio Vigni and Giovanni Carandente
catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Comunale, Messina, March 30–June 30, 1953.
Venice: Alfieri, 44 pp., 40 plates(1953; out of print)
Antonello da Messina
by Alessandro Marabottini and Fiorella Sricchia Santoro
catalog of the exhibition at the Museo Regionale, Messina, October 22, 1981–January 31, 1982.
Rome: De Luca, 285 pp.(1981; out of print)
Antonello da Messina, Sicily's Renaissance Master
by Gioacchino Barbera, with contributions by Keith Christiansen and Andrea Bayer
catalog of the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 13, 2005–March 5, 2006.
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 56 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Sicilian city of Messina overlooks a strait so narrow and treacherous that Homer's Odyssey described it as a lair of monsters: seven-headed, man-eating Scylla (the embodiment, the playwright Euripides was first to suggest, of Etruscan pirates) and the tidal vortex of Charybdis. The city's history has been a vortex in its own right. Settled by Greeks in the sixth century BC, it was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 396 BC, resettled by the Greeks, and conquered by, among others, the Romans, the Arabs, the Normans, the Swabians, the French, the Aragonese, the Spanish, and the Austrians before finally submitting to the group of northern Italians who created the modern Italian state.
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