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THE ELEVENTH SONNET TO BEAUTY O ripe bosom white that steadily before mine eyes, so dearly drifts, like the clear reflection, at the source of the Rhine of the purest snow. Ah but your shimmering, o weak eyes doth impair! With chaste milk appear there laden, two silver covers round, on top of both a ruby, which like small apples …

THE SHIP OF FOOLS, INTRODUCTION Knowledge of trouth, prudence, and iust symplicite hath vs clene left. For we set of them no store. Our Fayth is defyled loue, goodnes, and Pyte: honest maners nowe ar reputed of, no more. Lawyers ar lordes, but Justice is rent and tore. Or closed lyke a Monster within dores thre. For without mede, or …

“The Last Supper” is a mural painted on plaster, in tempera, chalk, glue and pitch. In Milan, around 1495, Leonardo da Vinci has embellished a large wall (460 × 880 cm), in the former refectory of a convent, adjacent to the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie. What you see, you are inspired by a Gospel passage of John, the …

I LIVE UPON THIS WRETCHED SOLITARY CLIFF I live upon this wretched solitary cliff, like a bird of sorrow that shuns green, branches and clear water: And withdraw, from my worldly loves, and my very self, so my thoughts may fly swiftly to that sun, I worship and adore. And though they fail, to spread their wings as I wish, …

The “Birth of Venus”, is not only a tempera painting on linen canvas, a result of the creativity of 172 × 278 cm. Around 1485, Sandro Botticelli realized that wonder for the Medici villa of Castello, but now you can see in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, as an icon of the Italian Renaissance. When you observe that painting, the …

LOVE, I THANK YOU For all my pain and torment, and I’m content, for every sorrow. I’m content for all I’ve suffered, Lord, in your lovely kingdom: For, without merit, by your mercy, so great a pledge you’ve granted me, since you’ve made me worthy, of a smile so blessed, my heart it’s carried, to Heaven above. I thank you, …

In the iconography of the late lamented of the dead man, it is always expected the presence of the “painful”, characters that are beside. This is what happens even in the “Dead Christ”, a picture of the size of 68 × 81 cm, one of the most famous paintings by Andrea Mantegna, where the Virgin Mary, along with St. John …

I HAVE PLACED MY HEART I have placed my heart in God’s service, so that I might ascend to Heaven, to the holy place where I have heard, there’s always laughter, joy and fun: I’d not want to go without my Lady, of the clear brow, and golden hair, without her I could never be happy, separated from my Lady …

The urban graffiti phenomenon has found great creative development. Urban graffiti invaded the cities of the world. Until June 26 if you want to know the creative process and growth of this art form, you can go to the Museum of the History of Bologna (Via Castiglione 8), entering the halls of the Palazzo Pepoli, to surprise you with the …

Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of the most important exponents of American graffiti art, managing to bring this movement from metropolitan streets to art galleries. The Andy Warhol and Keith Haring influences, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean Dubuffet – in short 28 years of his life – are stylistic fingerprints of Graffiti, Contemporary Art, Neo-Expressionism and Primitivism, highly visible in …

Whatever is the flight that brought you up to Bologna, to see an art exhibit or attend a conference, when you’re in town you will have some urgent things to do: find where to sleep and where to eat. The two urgencies, perhaps one will be undeferrable, because even your stomach seems to have woken up in the city where …

Many reasons for an unforgettable visit. In the music library are nearly 100,000 documents: scores, books, letters, printed books and manuscripts. A unique heritage of five centuries of music. Mozart met in Bologna Father Giambattista Martini, a great theorist and composer. Wolfgang spends the summer of 1770 to study with his teacher. Watch music straight in the eye? In Bologna …

ANNIBALE CARRACCI 1/3 – He, the son of a tailor, was born in Bologna in an autumn day in 1560, and his training takes place outside the family circle, though growing – professionally and humanely – with his brother Agostino and his cousin Ludovico. Coming out of the box of the late Mannerism, he proposed the recovery of Italian painting …