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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Urbania enshrines within the walls of its Ducal Palace the poetry of Federico Barocci. Most enter here to get a close-up look at the Madonna of the Clouds, the beautiful painting attributed to him that is revealed at the end of a winding path through...
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He had been to Lucca, the father of American realist literature. William Dean Howells had arrived in Lucca one day in April, leaving from Pisa under a sun that already at eight o'clock in the morning seemed hot and sickening, he who was used to the c...
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It makes no noise, the brush brushing against the canvas. Not even a slight rustle, not even the faintest crinkle. The bristles distribute the color caressing the surface of the canvas without making themselves heard. The paintings are born in silenc...
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Sunday morning of a cold and strange December, and the alleys of Black Wall are empty. There is no travel guidebook that forgets to mention this sandstone village in the lists of must-see places in the Valnerina. Orange flag, Borghi più belli ...
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It feels like entering a pagan temple. Or a sumptuous noble residence, if you prefer. When one enters the Malatesta Temple, one immediately gets the distinct impression that the glory of the Christian pantheon was not exactly high on the list of prio...
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On the one hand, the high-rise buildings of San Giuliano Milanese, the results of the 'building expansionism of the 1960s, the straight line of the railroad, the sequence of banks, grill shops, driving schools, turkish kebabs, hairdressers, furniture...
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