Giuseppe De Nittis

There are museums that house works of art, and then there are museums that tell stories. The Pinacoteca Giuseppe De Nittis, in the heart of Barletta, is one of those places where you go in to see paintings… and come out feeling like you’ve really met an artist. Housed in the magnificent Palazzo della Marra, […]

There are artists who paint reality and others who transform it, then there is Giuseppe De Nittis, who manages to do both with luminous and silent grace. When I first saw one of his paintings, a street in Paris with elegant ladies and galloping horses, I thought: it’s like stepping into a period film, but […]