Writer, journalist and Indian anthropologist Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta. The son of a diplomat, he grew up in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. At the age of 13, he went to study in Dehradun, while the family had moved to Iran. Move briefly in the United States, knows his wife Deborah. He has taught creative writing at Columbia University …

VALERIANO BECQUER 1/3 – He died of liver disease. He remains in the workshop of his uncle until 1853, then barely subsisting with doing portraits. Before the date of his marriage, he made some works of great interest, as the Carlist of La Esperanza, now in the Romantic Museum of Madrid. His brief marriage failed in 1862, after producing two …

Services there in the museum shop, that has a wide range of articles and publications related to the contents of the museum. Walking inside the treasure chest of art, do not forget that more than one hundred artists have added the imprint of their style, year after year, that now you can admire.The building itself was built in 1594, but …

He perfected the ottava rima, and was among the first scholars of the Renaissance, and a poet of unfailing artistry. Angelo Poliziano (or Angiolo), was born at Montepulciano. He was tutor to the sons of Lorenzo de’ Medici, becoming in 1480 Professor of Greek and Latin Literature at Florence. Held many benefices, which were withdrawn from him on the death …

The most important Italian musical centers, were those of Rome and Venice. In music even, the sixteenth century was a century of great novelty and intense development, as resented all that complex of ideas and stimuli which is known as the Renaissance. Examining the main musical characteristics of the century (the madrigal and Mass), we observe that they see the …

If you love history and art, if you want to enhance your time enjoying unusual experiences, if you are looking for something special, a trip by rail it is able to surprise you. The trip aboard the train of Flavours http://www.iseolake.info/it/blog/1081-il-treno-dei-sapori is a different experience from the usual, a dip in the green, away from the noise of civilization. What …

FRANCISCO GOYA 1/3 – The experience helped him become a keen observer of human behavior. The father of Spanish modern art. Francisco de Goya, painted royal portraits as well as more subversive works in late 1700s and early 1800s. He was born on March day, in Spain. He began his art studies as a teenager (even spent time in Rome). …