December 23, 2024 1:06 am

JOURNEY TO THE “Ara Pacis” – Rome inside your eyes

One of the most important monuments of ancient Rome, was built by Emperor Augustus to celebrate the pacification of the Mediterranean Sea, after the victorious military campaigns in Spain and France. Completed in Campo Marzio (in the year 17 BC.), the monument – placed at one end of a large sundial – was unusual: the shadow of the spire of …

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THE SURREALISTIC WORLD OF JOSE

JOSE DE LA BARRA 1/4 – He was born in a August day in Peru. He attended the Fine Arts Autonomous Superior School in Lima, Peru, where he studied Painting, Ilustration, and Murals. He has created a dream-like world through his expressing the internal and external fantasies of his imagination with his precise talents in painting and drawing. JOSE DE …

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A HOUSE ON THE TREE: Peru, a romantic night in the forest

Sometimes, during a vacation, the silence is thick and the night is deeper than other nights. That is an experience that takes you by the hand, looking for you, away from what you are, away from all that you’ve already seen, but you need to go to Peru (near the border with Brazil), next to the river “Madre de Dios …

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A JOURNEY WITHIN TASTE AND SMELL – Peru, a distant surprise, next to a nearby spell

Rugged coastlines, barren and desert landscapes, but also spectacular Andean landscapes: eating in Peru offers a culinary dimension similar to that of its vast territory: each zone has its own shade of beauty, taste and odor. Lima and the coastal landscape will offer fresh fish, eating “ceviche” (mixed fish and shellfish marinated in lime with the addition of onions and …

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I AM YOUR – Poetry, by Myra Jara

YO SOY TUYA Yo soy tuya como una de las dos flores de algodón y ella es también tuya y tú mereces saber que tú eres toda la planta las raíces, los pilares y las ramas mientras ella y yo nos mecemos en el aire y cada flor piensa y se inclina hacia el cielo. I AM YOURS I am …

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THE CELESTINE PROPHECY – Romance, by James Redfield

Issues New Age? Also, but this novel is something more, like a mysterious path, the one that takes you – almost like a parable without words – through the pages of an ancient manuscript. Discover the existence of nine keys, you will discover the duality of religious power and time, you’ll discover a history teacher who swims in a stream …

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ROMANTIC INTERPRETATION OF CLASSICAL – Giorgio de Chirico varnished oil tempera, for nature and portraits full of warm colors

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 1/4 – The man who will become Italian painter, was born in Greece on a summer day. The artist who will become the leading exponent of the Italian metaphysical painting, the creator of paintings extremely enigmatic, studied in Athens, Florence, Monaco, Germany and Paris, knowing the German pictorial symbolism and Gauguin. GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 2/4 – Squares …

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WEAPONS THE DEVIL – Novel, by Marco Scardigli and Andrea Santangelo

Imagine you’re in Pavia, back in the year 1525. Imagine seeing a king of France won and humiliated. Imagine the outcome of that battle are the result of technological innovation. Fine. Reading this novel, you will not need imagination, because you will know many things of the distant month of February, well described. Lanzichenecchi and purveyor, two monarchies that are …

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GRLICE – Poetry, by Kajetan Kovič

GRLICE Nekje so me pokopali. Ne spominjam se več nobenega grma, nobene zvezde, ne morja in ne tišine. Med kládivi in kolesi, med bati in računali samo še ribe in grlice včasih še jočejo. Telo razgrebem, ogenj prižgem, da se ob njem ogrejejo njihove ranjene glave, njihove ranjene glave. GRLICE Somewhere I was buried. I do not remember no bush, …

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WITHOUT LINES OR GEOMETRIC POINTS – Painting with splashes of color: the Italian Macchiaioli, between the nineteenth and twentieth century

A pictorial movement which experienced a short creative horizon, between eight hundred and nine hundred. That renewal was anti-academic, and it was a form of expression of Italian painting in the realist sense. The creativity of the Macchiaioli is realistic, and is firmly opposed to Romanticism and academic Purism. The Macchiaioli, believe that the image of the real is a …

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