Readings and blog

Phryne Before the Areopagus

Tableau Vivant

The tableau vivant Phryne Before the Areopagus by Gabriel Rifilato is a work by the Image Factory of Ca' Art Studio, staged in June 2018, at the Tordinona Theater in Rome. The scene is loosely based on Phryne Before the Areopagus by French painter Jéan-Leon Gérôme. [...]

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Walk to Tulum

Prelude - Editorial note

Walking from Castel Sant'Angelo to Fregene, where Federico Fellini went in search of Carlos Castaneda. [...]

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What makes a photo beautiful?

What makes a photo beautiful?

Great authors and professionals react to Man Ray provocation: what makes a photo Beautiful? [...]

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The Diabolical Sextet Plays Cards

Tableau Vivant

The tableau vivant The diabolical sextet plays cards by Gabriel Rifilato is an Image Factory work by Ca' Art Studio, staged in December 2019, at the Hotel of the Senato in Rome. The scene is loosely based on the painting The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds by Georges de [...]

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How do you know?

Prelude - Editorial note

There were many topics to talk to you about to introduce this new issue of Roman Walks… [...]

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Cinecittà

Anectodes and legends

In the Studios’s story fire, raids and a concentration camp. [...]

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Birth in Venice

Prelude - Editorial note

On the routes of the Grand Tour, discovering Venice, and the Lido, with the eyes of Peggy Guggenheim, Floriano Francesconi, Giorgione, Patricia Urquiola, Thomas Mann and Count Giuseppe Volpi of Misurata [...]

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Daydreaming. A dreamer gave birth to only good ideas. That’s where creativity is born.

Postlude

The director Akira Kurosawa said that man is a genius when he dreams. Many scientific inventions, artistic masterpieces, or political utopias were born thanks to our capacity of escaping from reality. [...]

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Welcome to page 2 of 100

Prelude - Editorial note

In this new Spring/Summer issue, Roman Art & Photo Walks presents its 100 pages, its new “Where & Why” section, and greetings from a number of friends who also happen to be great international photographers. [...]

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Thanatos, Eros and the Thousand Faces of Doctor Photos

Prelude - Editorial note

The first year of images of our magazine (photos) ended with us mourning a loss (Thanatos), opening, as all deaths do, the door to a new life (Eros). [...]

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Friendly People

Prelude - Editorial note

According to the Dalai Lama, to whom this issue of our magazine dedicates several considerations, the sources of our happiness are physical well-being, the possession of material goods and having friendly people close to us. [...]

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Courage and audacity

Prelude - Editorial note

Courage and audacity. Courage is behind every great idea. Audacity is behind every great chance we have to take. (Steven Spielberg) [...]

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We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep

Prelude - Editorial note

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. (Prospero, the Duke of Milan, in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest) [...]

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An Artist’s Discourse: Fragments

Prelude - Editorial note

Welcome to our, and your, new magazine Roman Walks. [...]

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