November 23, 2024 9:06 pm

HONEYMOON IN THE JUNGLE, BUT ON THE TREE – Tambopata / Peru

In Tambopata (on the border with Brazil, along the banks of the Madre de Dios River), you can experience the hotel Inkaterra, in Perù. When you arrive to your destination, even for you will open special doors, Inkaterra Machu Picchu http://www.inkaterra.com Get ready to enjoy a surreal scene, inside a forest floating in the clouds. Get ready for a pleasant …

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AN ACADEMIC BEAUTY, FULL OF ELEGANCE AND GRACE – Paul Baudry: while inspiration comes by the XVIth century Italian painting

PAUL BAUDRY 1/3 – He was born in 1828 in the Vendée. His painter’s talent, from the first revealed itself as strictly academical, full of elegance and grace. In the course of his residence in Italy, he derived strong inspiration from Italian art (with the mannerism of Correggio). He remain an important portrait artist, who did not limit himself to …

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NEW ROOMS FOR BOTTICELLI AND RENAISSANCE – Uffizi Gallery / Florence

Beautiful light, it is true? The natural lighting from above, comes from deep splays practiced in the ceiling. After the work of renewal of the Uffizi Gallery, http://www.uffizi.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/200/information back in the public eye even 9-15 salt, ie those dedicated to the early Renaissance. Among the construction of new exhibition spaces and renovate existing facilities, go up to 7000 square meters …

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CREATING A PARALLEL WORLD OF PAINTING – Adrian Borda: shades of color, between the classic and the modern

ADRIAN BORDA 1/3 – His paintings are a great visual exercise, the viewer returns again and again to meet them with new elements that had happened unnoticed the first time. He is a surreal painter and passionate photographer. Works in private collections all over the world, since he started to sell on eBay (United States, Hungary and Canada, France, Switzerland …

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SOME PLACES TO VISIT IN ROMANIA

Romania is a country of contrasts. http://romaniatourism.com/ Over the years, the country has belonged to the Romans (who gave the country its name), the Hungarians and the Ottomans. It is filled with quaint old towns, with mountain resorts that offer great skiing. It’s most famous citizen, may be the vampire Dracula (a fictional character found in Transylvania). Originally part of …

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ROMANIAN POEMS

Romanian culture, certainly was heavily influenced by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The earliest translated books into Romanian were Slavonic religious texts from the 15th century, and the first book printed in Romania was a Slavonic religious book in 1508. In the Romanian lands, dominated by the Ottoman Empire, they decided not to allow Romanian rulers, but through Greek merchants of …

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LEADING PAGES OF ROMANIAN NOVELS – Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cartarescu was born in 1956, is one of Romania’s leading novelists and poets. Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages. Graduated from the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Letters, between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher (and then at the Writers …

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SHOCKINGLY BEAUTIFUL ART INSTALLATIONS ON YOUR TRACKS

What happens when you suspend a giant ball, above a city walkway, during the night? Maybe people look up from their phones, with new attention to the world around them. Says its creator (the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, known for his whimsical urban installations), that its positive artistic statement, connects people to their childhood. You need to remember that the …

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FREEDOM OF COMPOSITION AND COLOR – The light-intensity ratio of a painter named Federico

FEDERICO FARUFFINI 1/3 – His work is seen as a moment of transition between pictorialism and the Scapigliatura. He was an Italian painter of historical subjects, in a style that combines the themes of Realism with the outlines colors of Scapigliatura painters. Born inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he trained with Trecourt in Pavia. Until 1848, he attended the …

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