Chiaroscuro and color in the Renaissance. Leonardo and Durer meet in the Albertina – World

World – Two Absolute Masters Animize Viennese Spring: The appointment is in the Albertina until 9 June to look at the Renaissance design with new eyes, in an interesting comparison between the north and south of Europe. Works from museums such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Royal Collection […]

Under the beaches of the world with photographers Magnum, from Scianna to Martin Parr – Rimini

Margate, Kent, England, 1986 © Martin Parr/Magnum Photos | ‘Magnum Magnum Friends The Martin Parr Pors Magnum and L Beache Rimini – “I have photographed beaches everywhere: the show was always guaranteed. As a photographer it is above all fascinated me beaches: vanity, performance, social mirror, human relationships, vulgarity, the play of bodies, the […]

The Park of the Counts of Virgil and Leopardi inaugurated in Naples, a romantic garden between history and poetry – Naples

Park of the graves of Virgil and Leopardi, Naples The Courtesy Management General Museums Napoli – Outside the swarming alleys of the historic center there is still a Naples, green, romantic, airy. We are in Piedigrotta, not far from Mergellina station, on the eastern slopes of the Posillipo pre -mountains. Here, according to tradition, […]

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York MAestrum of Frans Neoklassiek, Jacques-Louis Davidpainted The death of Socrates Around 1787, a work that reflects the strictness and the ideal of virtue of the neoclassical movement. This painting, executed for a private client, is famous for its dramatic and idealized representation […]

In the temple of the fifteenth -century sculpture: the Donatello show of the Bargello Museum -Florence reopens

Sealant – Originally, before he was transformed into prison, it was the great room of the hearing where in 1302 the death penalty was pronounced by Dante Alighieri and his eternal exile. Now the Donatello show, the oldest core of the Bargello Palace, visibly returns to the public in a renewed form. After almost a […]

He reopens Diana’s cave in Villa d’Este, Jewel or Mannersism – Rome after 50 years

Grotta di Diana, overview. Photo Andrea Concordia I Courtesy Autonomous Institute Villa d’Este Villa Adriana Roma – A secret gem, almost fifty years inaccessible, reoping for the public after an important restoration: it is the cave of Diana of Villa d’Este, in Tivoli, a jewel of mannerism sought by a cultivated and refined cardinal. […]

In the Bilotti Museum De Myth and the Holy under the lens of contemporary art – Rome

Between myth and holy. Works from the Capitoline Collections of Contemporary Art | Photo: © Monkeys Video Lab Roma – The works of the Capitoline Contemporary Art Collections come from deposits to weave a dialogue with the masterpieces of the Carlo Bilotti Aranciera Museum of Villa Borghese and new meanings. It happens from April […]

Giorgio Lotti and Maria Vittoria Backhaus to Cavallerizza, the new space of Brescia dedicated to photography – Brescia

Maria Vittoria Backhaus, Public gardensMilano, 1966 © Maria Vittoria Backhaus Brescia – In Brescia, the New House of Photography has the colors of Cavalerie, the new exhibition space, available for the community, intended to welcome exhibitions, photography and cultural activities, aimed at improving and promoting photographic art, especially Italian. The center opened its doors […]