Dust, damp patches, dirt encrustations, cobwebs, walls covered with lime, Giambattista Tiepolo's frescoes hidden by heavy metal grates. Those who, at the beginning of the twentieth century, had entered Villa Cordellina, a splendid neo-Palladian resid...
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As soon as you go up to the Belvedere of Albugnano, a village of five hundred inhabitants announced by the vineyards that, having finished the Turin hinterland, rise from Chieri to the bald hillocks of the Basso Monferrato, a sign explains that this ...
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Those who arrive at the Rovigo Rotunda from the most beautiful and most convenient street, the one leading to the long square opened in 1864, are in danger of being fooled: a lawn, pines, two wings of cobblestones and two rows of colorful houses that...
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We know from his notebooks that Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, in 1866, was in Lodi. For a field study, basically: a survey of everything that would flow first into the History of Painting in North Italy, written with Joseph Archer Crowe and publish...
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It has been a few years since Costanzo Ciano's mausoleum in Livorno was last in the national news. It was 2015, to be precise. At the time, Daniele Caluri, the brilliant cartoonist who invented Don Zauker, had proposed painting it in the colors of Un...
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Albert Camus had found at the age of twenty-four a fragment of his truth among the cells of the convent of San Francesco in Fiesole. He had climbed up here, on the hill overlooking Florence, in September 1937, and spent a morning among the Franciscan...
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There is a work by Canova among the colored marbles of the church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi in Rome. It is certainly not counted among his masterpieces, much less listed among his best-known works, and most do not even know of its existence. The...
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St. Ignatius lived here. In the quiet of four rooms, four "little rooms" as everyone now calls them, in a little palace that he and his companions had built to give a first home to the Society of Jesus, after Pope Paul III, it was Sept. 27, 1540, app...
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