Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mauro Morandi at home in Budelli - Alamy Mauro Morandi, who has died aged 85, stumbled upon the picturesque Mediterranean island ...

Celebrating 60 years since Giorgio Morandi’s (1890–1964) death, the Galleria Mattia De Luca has brought to New York a stunning exhibition of 60 works by the Italian painter and printmaker.

Each day for the past 29 years, Mauro Morandi has woken up to a golden sunrise illuminating the Mediterranean Sea. It’s a view that doesn’t grow old – and one Morandi doesn’t share with a single soul.

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels get a ...

Reporting from New York — Giorgio Morandi is a quiet giant in the world of art history. A painter and printmaker, he spent his entire life (1890-1964) in and around his native Bologna, Italy, ...

Humble, haunting and deeply enigmatic, these masterful works resist obvious symbolism to show us the poetry of the everyday He could be a peasant or a manual worker, in his collarless shirt and brown ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

For nearly 33 years he lived a hermit life on a beautiful island in the Mediterranean, where he was the sole inhabitant. Mauro Morandi, known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe after developing a loyal online ...

When I heard that the hammer price on a painting by Giorgio Morandi had set an online record at Sotheby’s, my first thought was, Aha! The tortoise had beaten the hare. This Italian artist was an ...