RAJA RAVI VARMA 1/4 – Most of his paintings, include pictures of mythological characters, from the epics and tales from religious texts and manuscripts. He was a renowned Indian painter, who greatly influenced the future generations of Indian painters. He is one of the few painters who have managed to accomplish a unison of the Indian traditions with the techniques …

The creative lifestyles, are characterized by nonconforming attitudes and behaviors. With the creativity, an idea or a musical composition, literary work or a painting, they are phenomenons whereby something new is formed. Haiku started out as a popular activity during the 9th to 12th centuries in Japan called “tanka.” It is a way of looking at the physical world and …

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI 1/4 – He had a long career, but he produced most of his important work after age of 60. He began painting around the age of six, perhaps learning from his father. Born in Tokyo, he is best known as author of the woodblock print series thirty-six views of Mount Fuji. He was a Japanese artist of the …

You can choose a half-day tour or a full day. Renaissance Rome http://www.myvespatours.com/en/home/ is the tour dedicated to the Roman Renaissance, with its squares and the majestic palaces took the most important Roman noble families of the ‘500. You can choose a tour in Ape Calessino, or a tour on a Vespa (with or without driver). Crossing Via Giulia (rich …

Advice on historical novels? If historical novels are your passion, there is a period that can inspire many suggestions: the Renaissance and its extraordinary protagonists. Caravaggio and Leonardo, Raphael and Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Masaccio and Tiziano. That of Caravaggio – for example – has been an eventful and adventurous life lived intensely and relentlessly. He got the glory, gained the protection …

CARAVAGGIO / MICHELANGELO MERISI 1/4 – In Rome, in 2010, an exhibition of his work which marked the 400th anniversary of his death attracted more than 580,000 visitors. His career, was short-lived. He killed a man during a brawl and fled Rome. He died not long after, on July, 1610. He was born as Michelangelo Merisi in Italy, around 1571, …