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“Carlo Maria Mariani: A FLIGHT OF DOVES,” is the third exhibition of work by Mariani to be held at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (the first was a show of works on paper in the fall of 2007, and the second in the spring of 2012 showed a series three large painted classical heads).

The present exhibition features a single painting, Un volo di colombi [A Flight of Doves], a monumental composition that—within the same unified perspective space—portrays the art critics and dealers who were prominent in Rome and New York during the last forty years of Mariani’s career (some of whom he knows …