Cats who love books
Tuesday, 24 March 2015
It is no secret: cats adore the paper, even the one printed. And they love to be the center of attention. Book‘s lovers know well how difficult it can be to deal with a cat and a book at the same time… and the site Bored Panda amuse us with an hilarious gallery of annoying
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The Magical Cats Academy
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Curiously that, the very day on which in Italy falls the Feast of the Black Cat, I find myself writing – one more time – about cats. Since the dawn, as is well known, the cat is considered the magical animal par excellence: worshipped as deities, demonized as a familiar of witches, even studied by
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A Pixel with mustache
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Susan Herbert, cat artist
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Many cat lovers claim that if our beloved felines had developed the opposable thumb they would have been the dominant species. If evolution had taken place in their favor instead of ours, history of art would surely have seen as masterpieces of the same characters but with different features. Susan Herbert, born in ’45, considered
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Marco Galli, the cats’ photographer
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
Marco Galli is a “pet photographer” – recently he became professional in all respects – and works as official photographer to the expo FIAF in Northern Italy. He has a studio suitable for cats and he likes to go for colonies and catteries (in the second case for free). I discovered his existence on Facebook,
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Of cats and art: La Romieu and the village of stone cats
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
On the Camino de Compostela, in an area that saw alternating exploits of Cathars and Templars, dotted with monasteries, collegiate churches, cathedrals, in 1062 two German monks returning from a pilgrimage to Rome decided to devote the rest of their lives to prayer and founded the hermitage de la Romieu. We are in Gascony, in
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part five)
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
In the eighteenth century the cat peeps in a wide variety of works and styles, going from taverns to drawing rooms, from boudoir to the charming sorceresses cavern. Around eighteenth and nineteenth century, Francisco Goya (1746-1828) depicts several times cats behind a child yet but already cruel Don Manuel Osorio de Zuniga [image 1], three
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