OPEN STUDIO DAYS

OPEN STUDIO DAYS

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OPEN STUDIO DAYS -

Davide Ragazzi Art Studio Team is pleased to invite you to the Open Studio Days, from the 23rd April to the 8th May 2022. Come to know our services, discover next events and how you can partecipate. Please, book a visit in Davide Ragazzi Art Studio by email or fill the form in the contact page.

Davide Ragazzi is known as the painter of the Earth and the Moon. He has created numerous works inspired by the art of Galileo Galilei and Leonardo Da Vinci. He started his contemporary art research in 1993. The human flight, the links among Art and Science, in the past and today; the Moon, the rocky planets and the Earth are subjects of visual research. His painting technique is energetic, fast, gestural with enamels; slower, descriptive, stratified or by thick texture with acrylic and oil paints. In his works of art, the subjects portrayed, the techniques used and the supports chosen tell a deeping relationship between ancient and contemporary world, which he have been exploring since the beginning of his research.

Davide Ragazzi Art Studio

International Atelier and Gallery in Genoa, Italy

Via Fieschi 23/4, 16121 Genoa Italy

+39 0108688702

Opening time: Monday-Sunday 3pm - 8pm; Saturday 10am - 1pm, 3pm - 8pm

davideragazziartstudio@gmail.com

VISITS BY APPOINTMENT: 23rd April - 8th May 2022

Galileo's Moon

Tribute to Galileo’s Moon Phases

The artist Davide Ragazzi developing the Moon as pictorial subject for many years. Inside of his art atlas of cosmos he presenting paintings with satellite photographs as subjects. In 2019 and 2020, he made a series of art tributes to Galileo Galilei, the father of observational astronomy.

Galileo’s moon drawings outside the sidereus nuncius

Galileo Galilei used the chiaroscuro technique of Florentine Disegno to make 7 watercolors reproducing the Earthshine of the Moon phenomenon (called also secondary or ashen light) which he first observed through a telescope, from November 30th 1609 through January 19th 1610. The chiaroscuro technique in wash drawing was preferred by Galileo because it was the most suitable, at the time, to represent the phenomenon of the light of the Earth reflected from the Moon: the Earthshine.

The 7 watercolors, conventionally named F1-F7 (in order of increasing lunar age), were reproduced by Galileo on two separate sheets (6 in the first, 1 in the second) and used as a model for the etchings intended to illustrate the first edition of the Sidereus Nuncius, but they were not included among the illustrations published in the volume. At first, Galileo probably thought of including them in the first printed copy but then decide to exclude them, because of the strong scientific debate that his revolutionary theory on Earthshine, still undisclosed, would have produced in society if published. The two sheets with 7 watercolors were placed next to the manuscript of Sidereus Nuncius and preserved, but they were not published as illustrations in the first printed edition of the volume, by the will of Galileo. Currently, the sheets with the watercolors and the manuscript of Sidereus Nuncius are preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale of Florence (BNCF, Gal. 48, f.28).

tribute to galileo’s moon by davide ragazzi

The artist Davide Ragazzi has been developing the Moon as pictorial subject for many years. Starting from realistic and timely observations of the Moon, he processes scientific data, technological aspects and art research. Davide Ragazzi’s tribute is to Galileo art lover and scientist who, after scientific observations made with his telescope, reproduced pictorial representation of the Moon to study and demonstrate a scientific phenomenon, introducing the world to the modern science. Painting and technology, art and science are connections that Davide Ragazzi has chosen to highlight in different expressive methologies, including tributes to illustrious scientists of the past.

[Enza Di Vinci]

you can see Galileo’s moon watercolors online visiting the website of the biblioteca nazionale in florence