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Fabio Benzi, Gianluca Berardi, Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto, Sabrina Spinazzè, Francesco Paolo Michetti. Catalogo generale. Volume 2, Cinisello Balsamo, Silvana Editoriale, 2024, 232 pages

This second volume of the Catalogue raisonné, in addition to publishing a new corpus of 249 works, highlights for the first time how Michetti developed his language through a constant engagement with the most current trends of his time, while also representing an indispensable model for many artists of his contemporaries across Europe and the United States.

There is a red thread running through the entire artistic trajectory of Francesco Paolo Michetti, one of the leading figures in the Italian and international art scene from the 1870s through the early decades of the new century: it is the experimental attitude that, on the boundary between Realism and Symbolist culture, led him to cross the threshold of reality in search of its mysterious and eternal essence.

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