Not long ago, saying “Medardo Rosso” (1858–1928) on this side of the Atlantic would usually provoke vague looks and noncommittal noises. Rosso is still not the most familiar name in the history of ...

Medardo Rosso, “Enfant malade (Sick Child)” (1893–95), bronze, 10 x 5 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milano (all images courtesy Pulitzer Arts Foundation) ST. LOUIS — An extensive study ...

Widely regarded as the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin is one of those historical greats who is known simply by his last name. He has not one, but three museums dedicated to his legacy ...

The shapeless, the formless and the undefined took center stage in artistic inquiry in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Paradoxically, what was perhaps the most structured, hyper-regulated and surveilled ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Degas’s “Wounded Jockey” has tumbled from his horse. Boccioni paints the animal as eddying rainbow curves in ...

To the Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso, the history of Western sculpture had produced little more than “paperweights”. He did not care for marble, the worthiest of the sculptor’s materials, choosing ...

Between art-history graduate students looking for dissertation topics and the marketplace looking for more things to sell, it is hard to believe there’s a modern artist we don’t know down to the last ...

Installation view of “Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and His Encounters with London,” with Ecce Peur center back at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Prudence Cuming In 1906, Italian-born, Paris-based sculptor ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The boy gazes to one side, one eye swallowed by the rough surface, the other just visible through a veil of plaster ...

Yesterday we reported that a bronze sculpture by Medardo Rosso had been stolen from Rome’s Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (see “Rare Masterpiece Stolen from Rome Museum”). In a bizarre turn of ...

“On tiptoe”. This is the attitude to pursue when invited to experience and visit the exhibit space at Tese delle Vergini on the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale. At Venice’s Basilica of San ...