When creativity is a bean soup with black cabbage and corn meal.

Visiting Italy, you too can create something unique, following a special art route from Portogruaro walk you leads you to Genoa, with its original and valuable masterpieces, novels and poems. Living this kind of travel experience, along with the creative fruits of five famous Italians, it adds meaning to your life, even turning your life into a masterpiece.

Our art tour starts in Veneto, where the work of SATURNO BUTTO, born in Portogruaro (Venice), is characterized by his interpretation of sacred art. What you observe inside his paintings, is his creative and conflicting approach to Western religious iconography, compared to the human body. Within a conflict between transgression and ecstasy, living paintings and neo-Gothic altars, the artist’s surrealist horizons explore the mysteries of an indefinable religion.

We are going to Venice, where we pay attention to an unforgettable experience of staying at the San Clemente Palace Kempinski, https://www.kempinski.com/it/venice/san-clemente-palace-kempinski a place of peace and tranquility ten minutes by boat from Piazza San Marco. You can walk through its gardens, letting yourself be captivated by the charm of the former monastery. Here you can taste Italian and Venetian culinary specialties, choosing whether to eat at La Dolce restaurant, at the Acquerello or at the Together. Before leaving for Central Italy, do not forget that the island offers you a special setting to relax, with its tennis courts and golf courses, an outdoor pool and spa treatments.

ORAZIO GENTILESCHI was a careful painter in the study of compositions with shapes and colors. His works, wrapped in a warm light, are impregnated with the pursuit of essentiality. In Urbino, inside the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, you have the opportunity to add something to your memories, that is his 1619 painting “The Virgin presenting the Child to St. Frances of Rome”.

Plan your Roman shopping, looking for the best shops and boutiques, because no one can deny the glamour that comes with Italian fashion. In the heart of Rome on Via Monserrato (a short walk from Campo de’ Fiori), Nadia Mari http://www.nadiamari.it/ has opened a second flagship store. Her signature look for the urban woman has landed in this neighborhood of Italian elegance.

ORAZIO GENTILESCHI was attentive to contemporary artistic events. In Rome he had observed the paintings by Caravaggio and the frescoes by Annibale Carracci and those by Guido Reni. To admire one of his “Madonna with Child” (oil on canvas, 131x91cm, 1604), you can go to the National Gallery of Ancient Art of Palazzo Corsini, in Rome. By painting, ORAZIO GENTILESCHI managed to create a poetic dimension, always wrapped in a serenely harmonious vision. Since 1600, his way of painting had begun to be based on direct observation. In Vatican City, visit the Vatican Pinacoteca, to see one of his paintings from 1611 (oil on canvas, 123x142cm): Giuditta and the slave with the head of Holofernes.

Welcome in Pisa, where the “banatino alla pisana” is the result of an ancient culinary experience (a soup of poor cooking), made with beans, black cabbage and yellow flour. Where to eat it in Pisa? The place has brick arches with open kitchen, simple and functional tables and chairs. You can go to number 5 of via Battichiodi, where you will find the “Ristoro di Frate Cipolla“. https://it-it.facebook.com/pages/Il-Ristoro-Di-Frate-Cipolla-Via-Battichiodi-5/209189249213191

His father was a Florentine artist who had moved to Pisa, the city where he was born on a day in July. What ORAZIO GENTILESCHI has painted represents a creative synthesis in perfect balance between physical concreteness and abstraction. He knew the art of Rubens. In Genoa and London he was able to deepen his knowledge with Van Dick.

In Genoa, in winter as in summer, Quarto’s seafront offers you panoramas where the eye is lost in the horizon of the Ligurian Sea, the one that offers the best fish to bring to the table. Right on the seafront of Quarto waiting for you the Olivè restaurant, the one that offers its customers a varied menu that combines Ligurian tradition and innovation.

What he sang was also dedicated to those who traveled in stubborn and opposite direction, with their special mark of special despair. FABRIZIO DE ANDRE’ is considered one of the greatest Italian singer-songwriters of all time. He was born in Genoa on a February day, dying prematurely in Milan one day in winter.

He was born in Genoa in 1855 in a bourgeois family, dividing his life between his work in the bank and writing in newspapers of the time. If you read a particular poem of his you will find the word “gnàgnoa”. That is the existential anguish that the poet CARLO MALINVERNI managed to soothe with art and spend his time in places dear to him.

The Genoa Aquarium is the first in Europe for animal species (second by surface). This huge aquarium (near the port), has species of freshwater fish, in tanks that reproduce the ecosystem. In this city, do not forget to enter the Palazzo Ducale, one of its main historical buildings, former seat of the ancient republic.

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