Italy is the queen of shots
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York. Founded in 1937, the most photographed building in the world was made by Frank Llyod Wright. Sights map, interactive map created by Google offering a...
View ArticleFlorence, a museum tells the 20th century
The Spedale delle Leopoldine of Florence, headquarters of the Museum of the Twentieth Century. The monumental building of the Spedale was recovered thanks to a long restoration, supervised by the...
View ArticleBotticelli, millionaire art
A precious but not very famous drawing by Sandro Botticelli went under the hammer at Sotheby’s for 1.3 million pounds, or rather 1.6 million euros. The sale of St. Joseph’s drawing was announced at the...
View ArticleFerragamo, walking is an art
Walking. An action that for man has been being like breathing for more than 3,5 million years, when the primate stood up for the first time. For many people everything started in that moment. Salvatore...
View ArticleMichelangelo on show in Carrara
In Carrara, Tuscan city, the Centro Arti plastiche dedicated an exhibition to the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo’s death, Italian sculptor and architect protagonist of the Renaissance. Until...
View ArticleWorks by Pomodoro at the court of Frederick II
Apulia embraces Arnaldo Pomodoro. The Italian sculptor born in 1926, will be the protagonist of an exposition until November 30th, 2014 in the three royal residences of Frederick II of Swabia: the...
View ArticleA fresh Sistine Chapel
An air-conditioning system on the cutting edge to protect the masterpiece by Michelangelo against deterioration. This is the new project announced by the Government of the Vatican City that confirmed...
View ArticleSegantini’s genius lights up Milan
The painter Giovanni Segantini. After Marc Chagall, Milan is ready to embrace Giovanni Segantini, one of the greatest artists of the second half of the 19th century, and main protagonist of the...
View ArticleThe Ara Pacis in colours
The altar of peace, dedicated in 9 A.C. by the Roman emperor Augustus to the peace and prosperity he succeeded in creating, after years of wars, turned on. Indeed, on August 19th, to celebrate the two...
View ArticleScrovegni Chapel struck by lighting
A lighting, probably fallen down in the first half of August, damaged the outdoor façade of the 14th-century Scrovegni Chapel of Padua in Veneto (Northern Italy), containing frescoes by Giotto. The...
View ArticleScrovegni Chapel struck by lighting
A lighting, probably fallen down in the first half of August, damaged the outdoor façade of the 14th-century Scrovegni Chapel of Padua in Veneto (Northern Italy), containing frescoes by Giotto. The...
View ArticleItaly is the queen of shots
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of New York. Founded in 1937, the most photographed building in the world was made by Frank Llyod Wright. Sights map, interactive map created by Google offering a...
View ArticleAstatue for the eighth king of Rome
A statue to celebrate the captain of thousands of battles and authentic flag of Rome. This is how the Italian sculptress Francesca Romana Di Nunzio wanted to pay homage to the Roman captain, who has...
View ArticleBeato Angelico’s fresco shines again
Beato Angelico’s Crucifixion and Saints has a new light, in the Chapter Hall of San Marco Museum in Florence: realized between 1441 and 1442, the fresco was restored by Dini Restauratori between 2013...
View ArticleMichelangelo’s eye
A team of researchers from the Sapienza University of Rome has studied the emotions and cerebral activity of visitors viewing Michelangelo’s statue of Moses. They discovered that by observing directly...
View ArticleRome, look at the Mona Lisa with hands
Who said that the masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci can be only looked at with eyes? In via Margutta 51, in Rome, in the building that hosted Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck’s Roman holiday, the Mona...
View ArticlePicasso lights up Florence
Picasso embraces Florence. Almost 90 works of the production of the master of modern art and of other artists among paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and a cinema filming compose the...
View ArticleRome tells Tiepolo’s art
More than 90 works, above all extraordinary drawings, but also paintings and etchings, tell until the 18th January at the Capitoline Museums of Rome the art by Giambattista Tiepolo, who along with his...
View ArticleUffizi, the Tribuna becomes 3d
The Uffizi Tribuna becomes technological. Indeed, the Florence Museum has inaugurated a multimedia station dedicated to the famous octagonal hall in the East Corridor of the Gallery. Conceived and...
View ArticleIn Rome the Sistine Chapel shines
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Michelangelo’s death, the Sistine Chapel on 16th October 2014, will be lighted up with new light, thanks to 7 thousand leds that will make the magnificent...
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