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For the Pope’s Tailor Filippo Sorcinelli, Queerness and Catholicism Share a Sensual Beauty
Founder of Atelier Lavs, the designer, perfumer, and artist has crafted liturgical vestments for both Pope Benedict and the ...
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Unmissable Things To See And Do In Florence, Italy
It’s hard to put into words how much we enjoyed visiting Florence at the end of our most recent trip to Italy. Our ...
Marco Grassi, Who Brought Old Paintings Back to Life, Dies at 90
As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the ...
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Visiting the Titanic is suddenly a lot easier than you think
The Italian Renaissance master’s sculpture was one of the first major artifacts to be digitally modeled, in 2000, by Stanford University. Though not as massive as the Titanic, the statue’s ...
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Renaissance dominion and hierarchy: art, nature, and science in Caprarola’s Palazzo Farnese
The Italian Renaissance is, perhaps the most famous period in history. In Caprarola, there is building that embodies all that ...
In ‘Perspectives,’ art and politics clash in Renaissance Italy
With its implication that the young woman isn’t as chaste as she should be, the marriage-prospect-derailing portrait triggers ducal panic and the deployment of the city-state’s best investigative ...
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King Charles and Queen Camilla Star in New Photos Taken at an Italian Villa to Mark 20th Anniversary
In addition, the Royal Standard and the Italian flag were displayed out the window of the cockpit after landing. Prince Harry's Lawyers Tell Court Why He and Meghan Markle 'Felt Forced' to Step ...
London Evening Standard19d
National Gallery to let one person sleep overnight for first time
The National Gallery has revealed it will let a member of the public sleep overnight for the “first time” as the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment. Ahead of the Trafalgar ...
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Monalisa And Other Famous Paintings In Ghibli Style
It is considered a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance. A 1930 oil painting by Grant Wood. It portrays a farmer and his daughter in front of Carpenter Gothic-style house. A famous oil-on-canvas ...
The Art Newspaper23d
Newly conserved portrait of an Italian beauty who bewitched King Edward VII to go on show
It was bad luck for the owner of a portrait of a lovely young Roman model, when the future King Edward VII walked into the artist’s studio in February 1859, and fell for her immediately.
Far Out Magazine28d
Aliens in art: the paintings that prove UFOs have been around for a lot longer than we think?
One of the first examples of a UFO-looking figure in an artwork was identified in an Italian cave painting ... hyper-realism, such as Renaissance and Baroque, that we changed the way humans were ...
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Luca Signorelli’s Apocalyptic Frescoes in Orvieto
When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...