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Milan – Museum of the twentieth century

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

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Milan – Museum of the twentieth century

In Milan, opens Saturday Dec. 6 the Museum of the twentieth century. After a major restructuring, the Palazzo dell’Arengario become the venue of the largest museum in the city. The museum will house the city’s great civic collections: Futurism, Novecento, Arte Povera, with an interesting focus on the work of authors such as Boccioni, Carrà, [...]

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Villa Litta: water jokes

Sunday, July 25, 2010

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Villa Litta: water jokes

Floors and walls from which gush fountains, benches that launch, just sits there, games and jokes refreshing splash water everywhere. The Ninfeo at Villa Litta in Lainate (near Milan) has returned after its restoration, a place of wonder, as it was since his birth, when the end of 1500 was built by the Visconti family. [...]

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The faces of the apostles

Thursday, June 24, 2010

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The faces of the apostles

More than two years to return to their original brightly colors the faces of the apostles. The faces of John, Andrew, Peter and Paul were held by the A.C. IV century until today in the catacombs of Santa Tecla, on the Via Ostiense in the basement of a Roman palace of the 50’s. The beautiful [...]

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Tullio Pericoli polychromatic traits

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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Tullio Pericoli polychromatic traits

Rome, Ara Pacis, on display faces and landscapes painted by Tullio Pericoli. Lightweight and abstract to the traits that the artist uses, coupled with an elegant polychromatic (white, tones of ocher and “Siena”) there are signs and traits that are plunging the viewer in a thousand lines left by the time, and it seems to understand [...]

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Italian art attractions

Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Italian art attractions

In Italy there are almost 5,000 museums, monuments and public and private archaeological areas, visited each year by about 95 million people. Like every year, we are awaiting the list about the most yearly visited museums and tourist attractions in Italy. For now we point the rankings about last year, provided by the Italian Touring [...]

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