Alvaro Javier Marrocco is a journalist who has worked on the culture supplement of the Rosario newspaper La Capital, as well as for El Litoral in Santa Fe and Mirador Provincial. He has written for various digital media outlets in Chile, Mexico, and Spain. He specializes in literature and the visual arts.
CERVIO MARTINI. THE SALON OF THE REJECTED
In sixteenth-century Florence, Duke Cosimo de’ Medici and the painter Giorgio Vasari founded the Accademia del Disegno, one of the first institutions to offer artists a space devoted to perfecting their craft, free from commercial pressures. In 1863, in Paris, by order of Napoleon III, an exhibition was held for a number of artists whose works had been rejected by the jury of an official Salon. It was given the name Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected).
