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Valerio Terraroli Quotes

Valerio Terraroli is an Italian art historian and professor of contemporary art at the University of Verona.

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Symbolism is not a style, but a psychological state that becomes image.

Liberty is not the Italian version of Art Nouveau, but its Mediterranean alternative, rooted in myth, narrative, and craftsmanship.

Filippini’s painting, suspended between natural observation and ethical structure, anticipates the spiritual weight of twentieth-century realism.

To understand the Symbolists, one must unlearn realism. Their logic is dreamlike, not descriptive.

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