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Istituto di Bellezza, 2025

GPC-2605

Beauty Centre

Collage on paper

75 x 66 cm

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Istituto di Bellezza” / Giulio Paolini / 2025”

Collection of the artist

From left to right and from top to bottom:
Salvador Dalí,
La persistencia de la memoria, 1931, oil on canvas, 24.1 x 33 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Giorgio de Chirico,
La nostalgia dell’infinito, 1912-13, oil on canvas, 135.2 x 64.8 cm, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Jheronymus Bosch,
Visioenen van het hiernamaals. De tenhemelopneming van de zaligen, c. 1505-1515, oil on canvas, 88.8 x 39.9 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice.
Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (Leiden-The Ague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproduction from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
Giorgione, Tre filosofi, c. 1506-08, oil on canvas, 123.5 x 144.5 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Giorgio de Chirico,
Interno metafisico (con grande officina), 1916, oil on canvas, 96 x 74 cm, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (Leiden-The Ague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproduction from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (Leiden-The Ague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproduction from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
Giorgio de Chirico,
Il mistero dell’ortopedico, 1968, oil on canvas, 80.2 x 60 cm, Private collection.
Caravaggio, Narciso, 1597-99, oil on canvas, 112 x 92 cm, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome.
Guercino,
Atlante che sostiene il globo celeste, 1646, oil on canvas, 127 x 101 cm, Museo Mozzi Bardini, Florence.
Gustave Moreau,
Œdipe et la Sphinx, 1864, oil on canvas, 206.4 × 104.8 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Guercino,
Et in Arcadia ego, c. 1618, oil on canvas, 78 x 89 cm, Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Rome.
Giorgio de Chirico, Interno metafisico (con grande officina), 1916, oil on canvas, 96 x 74 cm, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656, oil on canvas, 318 x 276 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Albrecht Dürer, Nemesis (Das große Glück), 1501-02, etching, 33.5 x 23.3 cm.
Arnold Böcklin, Die Toteninsel, 1880, oil on canvas, 111 x 155 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel.
Jan Vredeman de Vries,
Perspective (Leiden-The Ague: Beuckel Nieulandt for Hendrick Hondius, 1604-05); reproduction from Jan Vredeman de Vries, Perspective (New York: Dover Publications, 1968), n. pag.
Bartolomeo Veneto, Ritratto di gentiluomo, c. 1510-15, oil on wood, 72.8 cm x 54.3 cm, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Marcel Duchamp,
Étant donnés: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage, 1969, Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia.
Background image: Antonio Lafréry,
Septizodium Severus, etching, 48 x 33 cm, in Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, 1556.

G. Paolini, Un manifesto (Turin: 2026), n. pag., col. repr. no. 2.
Entry by Maddalena Disch, 14/08/2026