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Virtual Cimabue
The over 120 thousand fragments of Cimabue’s Vela del San Matteo in the Basilica Superiore di San Francesco in Assisi, crumbled to the ground in the 1997 earthquake, will be reassembled owing to a digital technique created by the National Council of Research and by the Central Restoration Institute (...)
|  | Lotto in Marche
A restless Renaissance genius, his fame was long obscured by those of his contemporary, Tiziano; his recent revaluation invites to the rediscovery of masterpieces created in the Marche region. Despite his Venetian origins (Venice 1480) and the probable formation at Giovanni Bellini generating in him a high awareness of colour and light (...)
| .jpg) | D'Annunzio’s poetry, theatre and narrative
Beloved and despised by critics for his will to make a work of art out of his life, Gabriele D'annunzio, with his artistic conception, based on the religious cult for beauty and with his exaltation of the ego, represents one of the highest exponents of Italian decadentism (...)
| .jpg) | Caravaggio’s atmosphere
The 29th of September 1571 Michelangelo Merisi, called "Caravaggio" was born in Milan, and he grew up to be one of the most extraordinary painters that ever existed. Orphaned of his father when he was a child he grows, with his three younger brothers, under his mother’s guidance (...)
|  | Leopardi, Infinite poet
The 29th June 1798 Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati, the son of Adelaide Antici and Count Monaldo. He had a strict religious education and according to his father’s wish he was to become a priest. Very soon young Giacomo discovered the pleasure of "knowledge" (...)
| .jpg) | Painting: "a spiritual matter"
“No art deriving from reason and intellect can last long. I wish to return to a popular art (Giotto’s) that will lead back to plastic laws as an expression of essence and purity” Carlo Carrà, painter, said before he started on the path of metaphysical research in art (...)
|  | A passionate anarchist
Morante is one of the greatest contemporary novelists. However, critics tend to forget her, in school anthologies she appears rarely and she is mentioned only briefly. (...)
|  | Billionaire auction for Michelangelo
At Sotheby's Auction House, London, a Michelangelo Buonarroti drawing was sold for the considerable figure of 19 billion liras. (...)
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