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WEDDING TOURISM – Astonishing places to get married, with memories forever

Get married on an exotic beach, or in a princely castle, is achievable today. Anyone can give to himself or herself a dream wedding. The important tourist and hotel groups organize incredible “Weddingmoons group” for long time (Http://www.sandals.com/groups/team/) Two examples? Swear eternal love in French Polynesia (at the St. Regis Bora Bora), where you can get married under water in …

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EDINBURGH / CAMERA OBSCURA AND WORLD OF ILLUSION

This experience has delighted and intrigued people for over 150 years. It is a ‘must’ on any visit to Edinburgh. The Camera Obscura, http://www.camera-obscura.co.uk/your_visit/times_prices.asp show is a fascinating and highly amusing way to see this city (and learn about its history). Your guide will entertain you while telling stories of Edinburgh. All visitors are truly amazed at how, in this …

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AT LEAST ONCE IN A LIFETIME – New Year’s Eve

The heart of the New Year in Brooklyn? You have to go to Prospect Park, to leave you charmed by the midnight fireworks. What’s Near Times Square, will be organized parties in restaurants and special sparkling location. Here, at midnight, rain down on the crowd million colored confetti (with greeting messages written by people all over the world). Throughout the …

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES – Man with Roman coin, by Hans Memling. Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

The years around 1470 were the most prosperous in the life of this painter, a man who was cited among the wealthy citizens of Bruges. http://www.kmska.be/en/ Hans Memling had its prosperity to the great number of his patrons. In this period, one third of the artist’s works are portraits. The popularity of his portraits was due to the personal touch …

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A PAINTER WHO SOMETIMES ENCHANTS, NEVER OFFENDS AND NEVER OVERWHELMS – Hans Memling: sense of detail and image quality

HANS MEMLING 1/4 – He was a German painter who moved to Flanders, working in the tradition of Netherlandish painting. His portraits is special in many aspects: it shows the high quality and sense of detail, and the man is portrayed in front of a landscape (he was one of the first painters to add a background to his portraits). …

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HANS MEMLING (1440/1494), GERMAN PAINTER – High-quality portraits, with landscapes in the background

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CODEX SERAPHINIANUS – The strangest book in the world

The cover of the book is constantly being studied. An edition of this book, depicts a couple who, in the act of having sex, is transformed into a crocodile. Between 1976 and 1978 the Italian artist Luigi Serafini has made a special book, written and illustrated with over a thousand drawings. The Seraphinianus Codex is an absolutely original and surreal …

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IN CONSTANT SORROW – Things have changed, for that forever young man

Man of Constant Sorrow – In constant sorrow through his days, I am a man of constant sorrow. I’ve seen trouble all my day. I bid farewell to old Kentucky The place where I was born and raised, the place where he was born and raised. For six long years I’ve been in trouble. No pleasures here on earth I …

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A WOMAN FREE AND PROUD – Artemisia Gentileschi: to paint when women were denied access to schools and at work

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI 1/4 – She was a Baroque-period painter, known for such works as “Susanna and the Elders” and “Judith Slaying Holofernes.” She lost her mother when she was 12 years old, and suffered another tragedy five years later (when she was raped by one of her father’s colleagues). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEa0ibrXqSk She married a painter from Florence, but their union wasn’t …

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ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI (1593/1652), ITALIAN PAINTER – A raped woman, an artist violently combative

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