Mauricio Santamaria

Editor de CAMPO, cómo se construye el valor, la influencia y la reputación en el arte. Una lectura del mercado global del arte desde América Latina.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

I tried my best to do it justice

[Apple Music Classical @AppleClassical]

Wishing you a meditative Monday 🌙✨
Solitude and stillness from @Bruceliupiano's latest album "Lunaris": https://t.co/f4DlLBzI3Y

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Bach, Berlioz, Brahms and beyond.
100 tracks of the greatest music written for the orchestra, where the musical possibilities are endless: https://t.co/1wKamJ8VRG

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Madama Butterfly... here she comes 🦋
From London's Royal Opera House (2017) with @ErmonelaJaho in the title role, led by Antonio Pappano
Watch here: https://t.co/nnCznoUbVg

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

I remember the thrill — now tinged with sadness — of speaking with Mario Vargas Llosa .@nypl

Mario Vargas Llosa, R. I. P.

Our conversation:
⤵️
📽 https://t.co/aG9yVHD2sk

[Mauricio Santamaria @masacampo]

Inside James Turrell's 100th and most ambitious Skyspace | BBC Global https://t.co/XXZhGUmIWT via @YouTube

[exibart @Exibart]

È morto a 87 anni Carlo Ginzburg: dalla microstoria agli studi su Warburg e Piero della Francesca, il suo lavoro ha segnato anche la storia dell’arte e della cultura visuale

https://t.co/v6JK2WQlvu

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In 2012, the people of Ireland were asked to choose their favorite painting in the world.

They did not choose a Caravaggio, a Vermeer, or a Monet. They chose this: two lovers saying goodbye on a staircase...

It is called Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs, painted in 1864 by Frederic William Burton. It is a watercolor, which makes its richness and depth almost impossible to believe, and it hangs today in the National Gallery of Ireland.

The story comes from a medieval Danish ballad. Hellelil, a noblewoman, fell in love with Hildebrand, the prince who had been assigned to be her personal guard. Her father forbade it and ordered her seven brothers to kill him. When they attacked, Hildebrand killed six of them. At Hellelil's desperate cry, he spared the youngest, and that hesitation cost him his life. He died of his wounds. The surviving brother imprisoned her, and she did not live much longer...

Burton could have painted the battle. He could have painted the deaths, the grief, the blood. Instead he chose the one intimate moment before all of it: the lovers passing on a turret staircase, stealing a final embrace, knowing what is coming.

And every detail in the painting carries the weight of that knowledge. He does not seize her in passion. He bows his head and kisses her arm with a tenderness that is almost unbearable, because it is goodbye. She does not collapse into him. She turns to climb the stairs, her face hidden from him and from us, because to look back would make it impossible to leave.

The Victorian novelist George Eliot saw the painting and described it perfectly. The face of the knight, she wrote, is "the face of a man to whom the kiss is a sacrament."

And that is precisely why it has moved people to tears for more than a hundred and sixty years. It shows something that most of us have felt: not love at its beginning, when it is easy, but at the moment it must be given up, which is the moment that reveals everything it was worth.

Burton understood that the most powerful thing he could paint was not the tragedy itself, but the last gentle second before it arrived, held forever in paint, so that the two of them never have to climb those stairs apart.

Eliot, who was a friend of Burton's, captured it best: "It might have been made the most vulgar thing in the world, but the artist has raised it to the highest pitch of refined emotion."

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[Paul E. Maquet @rumillaqta]

Este es el recorrido del sol desde junio 2025 hasta mayo 2026 en la bahía de Lima y Callao. Proyecto completado! Para recordarnos que todo es un ciclo y que todo da vueltas, y que lo que un día sube otro día baja. A veces hay que resistir el invierno, luego vendrá otra primavera.

[Alberto Giraldo @alb_giraldo]

El destacado artista José Sabogal (1888-1956), máximo exponente del movimiento indigenista en el #Perú, pintó al menos cuatro obras inspiradas en el sitio arqueológico #inca de Tambo Colorado, ubicado en #Pisco. Una de las versiones más conocidas es este óleo sobre lienzo de 56 x 46 cm, realizado en 1955, un año antes de su fallecimiento. 

La obra captura la esencia del centro administrativo inca, también conocido conocido como 𝙋𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙖 o 𝙋𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙝𝙪𝙖𝙨𝙞, famoso por sus muros pintados originalmente de rojo (𝙥𝙪𝙘𝙖 en quechua), ocre y blanco. Sabogal utilizó su característico enfoque indigenista, resaltando la arquitectura prehispánica como un símbolo de identidad nacional y "lo raigal".

La elección de Tambo Colorado por parte de Sabogal no fue casual; el sitio es uno de los mejores conservados de la costa peruana y su nombre (que significa "albergue rojo") resuena con la paleta de colores tierra y la fuerza visual que el artista buscaba en sus paisajes. 

🖼️ Tambo Colorado (1955). Óleo sobre lienzo. José Sabogal Diéguez. Pinacoteca Municipal Ignacio Merino, #Lima.

[Yatharth Mann @yatharthmann]

How it started vs. how it's going:

[The Masterpieces Archive @MasterpiecesArc]

Michelangelo
The Temptation of Saint Anthony

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

One of the most heartbreakingly sad book cover series ever created…

[La Biennale di Venezia @la_Biennale]

#BiennaleArte2026 President #PietrangeloButtafuoco and #KoyoKouoh’s team present #InMinorKeys (9 May > 22 November).
Traduzione in italiano e LIS → https://t.co/EyesbjKPL2
English translation and IS → https://t.co/Viu4xlUznD https://t.co/Fr00G80KAo

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Inside the Vatican studio preserving the mosaics of St. Peter's Basilica https://t.co/49joIXFSQA https://t.co/49joIXFSQA

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121 years of connection. 121 years of service. Here’s to the generations of leaders who carry this legacy — and the impact ahead 💛

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Repping Peru on the big stage 🇵🇪

A night to remember for Ignacio Buse!

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A clip recorded without flash or lights in the Zimanga Private Game reserve in South Africa: the photographer spent three nights in a hide to patiently wait for this pride of lions.

[📹 Varun Aditya]

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Explore the innovative spatial design principles of Frank Lloyd Wright and Gego in the context of art and architecture.
https://t.co/mKZqc5X7NP