Walking through Italy - Archive
To discover the Italian beauties, to know the attractions which our country can offer, to search cues for a visit in Italy: with the page "Walking through Italy", thought for our non-Italian public, Ilaria Baratta will make you discover the best marvels of Italy through the artists we deal with in our podcast.
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The religious and artistic centre of Florence
Episode 26 - 21th December 2010
In this episode, you will discover two great monuments of Florence: Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistery. Lorenzo Ghiberti realized two of the three bronze doors of it, but the masterpiece is the "Paradise Door".
Related artist: Lorenzo Ghiberti
Related location: Florence
Parma, town of art and music
Episode 25 - 7th December 2010
In this episode, we talk about Parma. This town housed famous artists, such as Correggio and Parmigianino, and it is linked to the composer Giuseppe Verdi.
Related artist: Parmigianino
Related location: Parma
The mysticism in Assisi
Episode 24 - 30th November 2010
In this episode of “Walking through Italy”, we are in Assisi, a splendid town in Umbria. Here, religiousness and mysticism invade its streets. The cycle of frescoes on the Life of Saint Francis, which is in the “Basilica di San Francesco”,is attributed to Giotto.
Related artist: Giotto
Related location: Assisi
The Bargello Palace: a museum to discover
Episode 23 - 22th November 2010
In this episode of “Walking through Italy”, you will discover an important museum of Florence: the Bargello National Museum. Here, it is possible to see many works by Giovanfrancesco Rustici.
Related artist: Giovanfrancesco Rustici
Related location: Florence
The two towers, symbols of Bologna: the Garisenda and the Asinelli
Episode 22 - 29th October 2010
In this episode of our page "Walking through Italy", we are in Bologna and you will discover the most famous towers of this city: the Garisenda and the Asinelli Towers. They, besides being a defence building, represented the social power of the richest families.
Related artist: Domenichino
Related location: Bologna
Palazzo Pitti: the palace-museum
Episode 21 - 14th October 2010
In this episode, we talk about one of the museums of Florence: Palazzo Pitti. It, after having been the residence of important families and dynasties, houses, now, famous works of art which belong to our artistic heritage.
Related artist: Bronzino
Related location: Florence
A naturalistic beauty to discover: the Amalfi coast
Episode 20 - 6th October 2010
In this episode, you will discover one of the most famous tracts of coast of Italy: the Amalfi coast. These landscapes were probably seen by the painter Salvator Rosa, who maybe reproduced them also in his works.
Related artist: Salvator Rosa
Related location: the Amalfi coast
A salon-city: Mantua
Episode 19 - 24th September 2010
Today we will have a walk through a splendid city in Lombardy, a city like a salon: Mantua. Here the maximum expression of great artists is showed, in particular the art of Andrea Mantegna and Giulio Romano.
Related artist: Giulio Romano
Related location: Mantua
An Etruscan and Medieval town: Cortona
Episode 18 - 14th September 2010
In this episode of our page "Walking through Italy", you will discover a little but suggestive town in Tuscan: Cortona. It was the home town of Pietro Berrettini, better known as Pietro from Cortona.
Related artist: Pietro da Cortona
Related location: Cortona
Lucca: the town with one hundred churches
Episode 17 - 18th August 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy”, we present the city of Lucca. A large number of monuments, above all churches, enrich it. Jacopo della Quercia, here, realized his most famous work: the funeral monument dedicated to Ilaria del Carretto.
Related artist: Jacopo della Quercia
Related location: Lucca
The Basilica of Saint Anthony and the works of art by Donatello
Episode 16 - 9th August 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy”, we can discover the most important and famous church, in the religious point of view and in the artistic one, of Padua: the Basilica of Saint Anthony. Here, Donatello created great works of art, which are now on the high altar.
Related artist: Donatello
Related location: Padua
The Schools of Venice, confraternities with an eye for the artistic treasures
Episode 15 - 30th July 2010
In this episode, you can discover special places in Venice, where the reciprocal aid, devotion and interest for the artistic treasure unite together: the Schools of Venice. In particular, we show the Great School of Saint Roch ("Scuola Grande di San Rocco") and the Great School of Saint Mark ("Scuola Grande di San Marco"), which are linked to the painting of Tintoretto.
Related artist: Tintoretto
Related location: Venice
The Basilica of saint Domenico: Saint Catherine reveals us her history
Episode 14 - 20th July 2010
Today you will discover one of the major church of Siena: the Basilica of Saint Domenico. Here Saint Caterina lived the most important mystical episodes of her life. In addition, it houses works of art by the painter Francesco Vanni.
Related artist: Francesco Vanni
Related location: Siena
The Sistine Chapel, a treasure in Rome
Episode 13 - 6th July 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy”, you will discover a famous treasure of the Vatican Museums: the Sistine Chapel, in Rome. Michelangelo realized a great work of art here. I am talking about the vault and the “Last Judgement”.
Related artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Related location: Rome
Levanto and the Cinque Terre: unforgettable landscapes
Episode 12 - 28th June 2010
In this episode, foreign people will discover famous and wonderful places of the Liguria: Levanto and the Cinque Terre. Here important artists stayed, such as Eugenio Montale and the painter Bernardo Strozzi. Beautiful holidays are assured!
Related artist: Bernardo Strozzi
Related location: Levanto and the Cinque Terre
Spoleto: the Medieval and the Roman join together
Episode 11 - 16th June 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy”, we make you discover a splendid city of Umbria: Spoleto. Its principal church is very important and famous because it houses wonderful frescoes by Filippo Lippi and also his tomb.
Related artist: Filippo Lippi
Related location: Spoleto
The church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome
Episode 10 - 7th June 2010
Let's discover an important church in Rome: San Luigi dei Francesi. It is famous because of the works of art painted by Caravaggio, one of the major artist in the seventeenth century in Italy, which it houses.
Related artist: Caravaggio
Related location: Rome
Piazza di Spagna: a magic atmosphere
Episode 9 - 28th May 2010
In the seventeenth century, in Rome, the quarter of the artists spread from Piazza del Popolo to Piazza di Spagna. Among these artists, we can remember Artemisia Gentileschi. In this episode of our page "Walking through Italy" foreign people can discover one of the wonderful places in Rome: Piazza di Spagna. It is really unique!
Related artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Related location: Rome
A jewel in the heart of Florence: Palazzo Vecchio
Episode 8 - 17th May 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy” you can discover one of the symbols of Florence: Palazzo Vecchio, also known as Palazzo della Signoria. It houses wonderful works of art. We suggest you to go to visit it!
Related artist: Sandro Botticelli
Related location: Florence
A particular of the lagoon of Venice: the island of Murano
Episode 7 - 7th May 2010
In this episode of our page “Walking through Italy”, you will discover the island of Murano, which is often the background of the paintings of Francesco Guardi. This island is famous throughout the world because of its glass.
Related artist: Francesco Guardi
Related location: Murano (Venice)
Tuscany: a land with wonderful landscapes
Episode 6 - 27th April 2010
Since Masaccio came from San Giovanni Valdarno, a small town in the Tuscan countryside, in this episode you will discover the different landscapes of Tuscany, in particular the rural environment. Here peace, silence, a contact with nature are the most important features of this beautiful region.
Related artist: Masaccio
Related location: Tuscan countryside
The Capital of marble: Carrara
Episode 5 - 8th April 2010
In this episode of our page "Walking through Italy" you will discover the Capital of marble, Carrara, which is also the Ilaria and Federico's town. Come to visit it !
Related artist: Carlo Finelli
Related location: Carrara
Giorgione and his hometown, Castelfranco Veneto
Episode 4 - 22th March 2010
In this fourth episode of our page "Walking through Italy" we bring you to the discovery of Castelfranco Veneto, hometown of one of the most important painters in the history of the Art: the enygmatic Giorgione.
Related artist: Giorgione
Related location: Castelfranco Veneto
Centre of power and place of artistic interest: the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena
Episode 3 - 3rd March 2010
In this third episode of our page "Walking throgh Italy" we invite us to come to the discovery of one of the beauties of the splendid Siena, city that still now maintains its medieval mark: the Palazzo Pubblico. Once it represented the centre of power of the city, nowadays it is place of artistic interest because of the works of art which it contains.
Related artists: Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Related location: Siena
The Carnival of Cento: from popular festival to Carnival of Europe
Episode 2 - 16th February 2010
For the second episode of "Walking through Italy", we talk about the carnival of Cento and the tradition of carnival in Italy. Cento is a town in Romagna (Northern Italy) and was the hometown of Giovan Francesco Barbieri (better known as "il Guercino"), the painter of which we talk about in the second episode of our podcast in Italian language.
Related artist: Il Guercino
Related location: Cento
Florence, Uffizi Gallery: cradle of the art and utopian world
Episode 1 - 1st February 2010
It is the first episode of our page "Walking through Italy" and we start in a big way, bringing our foreign public to the discovery of one of the most important museum throughout the world, Uffizi Gallery, in the splendid Florence. Here "artistic contemplation" means to go into another world, a world which is similar to a Utopia.
Related artist: Federico Zuccari
Related location: Florence
