Muse inquietanti, ritratte da uomini inquieti
In that little masterpiece of synthesis and sentiments entitled Mr. Palomar, the writer Italo Calvino wrote: "The knowledge of fellow men necessarily demands the knowledge of oneself". Regarding the theme of understanding oneself and others, the mysteries of empathy, identification and communication, anthropologists, sociologists and psychoanalysts have written an infinity of words. The history of art, however, has been equally eloquent. For example, the discipline of physiognomy from Aristotle to Leonardo for the first time linked the moral expression of a person to physical appearance, in every portrait revealing the person's real identity - intimate and recondite - entrusted to the hands of an artist capable of depicting it by means of images. However, in this process of...
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