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Italian culture and history exhibited in Rome
Roma's Palazzo delle Esposizioni gives homage to an all-Italian cross-section of history, from the post-war period to the years of the economic boom (...)
|  | Trentoincina
Italian Battled Cruiser R.I. Trento accompanied by the Destroyer Espero, crossed the Indian and the Pacific Ocean to reach Shanghai and Nagasaki. A web site was created to recall the events (...)
|  | Zanuso, researcher of beauty and functionality
Telephones that live like crickets, hidden scales in cases, televisions like black shiny cubes. Look around: you probably own some objects borne of Marco Zanuso’s genius too. Objects that seem to open doors to another reality, or perhaps on the same but looked at with entirely new eyes (...)
|  | Rita Levi Montalcini
Born in Turin in 1909, with twin sister Paola - recently passed away -, Rita Levi Montalcini is an extraordinary figure of the XX century, a great woman and scientist who has chosen to dedicate her life to study and research (...)
|  | Leonardo the Scientist
Leonardo Da Vinci’s name is indissolubly tied into universal masterpieces such as "La Gioconda" or "L'Ultima Cena". However, behind these works of art lies a far more complex personality. As well as a painter, Leonardo was also a sculptor, an architect, an engineer, a mathematician, a musician and an astronomer (...)
| .jpg) | Indro Montanelli: Italian journalists’ “dad”
Defining Indro Montanelli with a single line is not easy. A prestigious witness of the XX century, President Ciampi said. A counter-current journalist, a free man, a sagacious pen, a "veteran of everything", as he would self-describe (...)
|  | Michelangelo Buonarroti’s immortal genius
Michelangelo Buonarroti was a sculptor, painter, architect and poet expressing in each of these art forms the ideals of the renaissance period. Born in Caprese in 1475 he starts, still a child, in Ghirlandaio’s workshop in Florence, where antique sculpture soon becomes a passion (...)
|  | A dictionary of materials and colours
Ettore Sottsass is a historical designer who couples shapes, materials and colours with extraordinary inspiration, showing a constant attention and curiosity towards changes in society (...)
|  | Mazzotta: art and the web
Gabriele Mazzotta, chairman of the Foundation by the same name, tells us the story and philosophy of the organisation, highlighting the importance of the new technologies in the diffusion of culture and art.(...)
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