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WAYNE THIEBAUD, AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylized realism, depicting everyday objects and scenes.

When paintings reflect the continuity and visual connections between past and present. Our journey into California creativity, today brings us to Mesa (on the border with Arizona), to learn about art through paintings. Located in the named Maricopa County, it is a city filled with museums and hiking opportunities (do not forget its delicious food and drink). You will have …

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ON RAFFAELLO’S TRACES – A “author’s journey” from Urbino to Rome, following the artistic path of a creative genius.

Crossing the existential parable of a talent, through places and faces of his characters. In Urbino, the collections belonging to the National Gallery of the Marche, are on display in Ducal Palace (built for the Duke Federico da Montefeltro), http://www.gallerianazionalemarche.it/en/ducal-palace/ where next to his own rooms (between the twin turrets), the Duke had a splendid study built using wood inlay. …

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WHEN TIME WAS A VINDICTIVE BANDIT – Raffaello / When one is painting one does not think.

Looking faces without rippled flesh, burning gums and empty sockets. When he died, a crack shook the Vatican buildings, while the sky was filled with dark clouds. Famous at a very young age, RAFFAELLO gathered around him a team of artists to work on the many works that were commissioned. Thanks to a careful study of the psychology of the …

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ROMAN HOLIDAYS, BETWEEN HILLS, TOWNS AND CARROZZES – Antonello Venditti / When time stops in Rome.

No sex without love. It’s hard law in my heart. What are the most beautiful works of painter Raphael to see in Rome? In Vatican City, entering the Stanza della Segnatura you can admire “The School of Athens“, a large fresco with a base of 770 cm. Many of the philosophers who are portrayed there are coeval personalities with Raphael …

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KISSED MOUTH DON’T LOSE ITS FORTUNE – Giovanni Boccaccio / The Decameron.

When farmers allowed one rooster for ten hens. Stendhal’s syndrome, is a psychosomatic disorder that causes dizziness and hallucinations when an individual is exposed to an experience of great personal viewing art. Welcome Florence, while you exposed to the super concentrated works of art. Don’t worry for syndrome, the effects are relatively short-lived, but what you will see remain with …

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SHORT AND FULLY POETIC MASTERPIECES – Sandro Penna / A strange joy of living, even in pain.

Oracular wisdom verses, inside Epic imprint. Here you find historical structures, museums and attractions such as the Perugina Chocolate Factory https://www.perugina.com/it During the Middle Ages, Perugia was known for its devotion to the development of arts and culture. Here he was called to work Raphael, when he moved between Florence and Perugia. Today it is a small museum dedicated to …

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ALBERTO BURRI – ITALIAN PAINTER AND SCULPTOR – Shutting off from the rest of the world.

To create a new platform for visual arts. Following the traces of Raffaello’s life, our art itinerary arrives in a city where he worked in the Church of San Nicola, Città di Castello. https://www.umbriatourism.it/en_US/-/citta-di-castello Pliny the Younger built his villa (until now identified with walls, mosaic floors and marble fragments). As you can observe, the city is mostly built of brick. …

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RAFFAELLO SANZIO, ITALIAN PAINTER AND ARCHITECT – A leading figure of Italian High Renaissance classicism.

When more serene and harmonious qualities are regarded as the highest models. The collections belonging to the National Gallery of the Marche, are on display in Ducal Palace built for the Duke Federico, http://www.gallerianazionalemarche.it/en/ducal-palace/ where next to his own rooms (between the twin turrets), he had a study built using wood inlay. The museum’s prestige is linked to the masterpieces of …

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SPEND BROOKLYN DAY BLENDING ECCENTRIC CREATIVE TASTES – Be sure to check out the Artists and Fleas market in Williamsburg.

Where anyone looking to display, discover, or enjoy a artistic modern-day bazaar. Maybe, here you too can consider a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge or along the scenic Brooklyn Heights promenade. It offers attractions for every type of traveler. Something special? Head for Williamsburg, where to hear live music and shop for vintage threads. In Brooklyn, Park Slope is the …

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THERE IS NO SPECIAL MEMORY AS A JOURNEY TO BROOKLYN – The place where originality meets innovation.

Brooklyn, the ability of taking the seemingly ordinary. There is no friend as loyal as a book, he had said Ernest Hemingway. In Park Slope, entering into Unnameable Books http://unnameablebooks.blogspot.com/ you can buy a used novel “Cach–22” by a writer that had grow here: Joseph Heller. Among the most celebrated poets of the early twentieth century, she had loved the …

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