THE INFANT GENIUS OF AN ARTIST – Keith Haring, part of the New York art scene during the 1980s

Scout the life and colourful works of an artist Perhaps by chance, Keith Haring decided to express his creativity on empty advertising spaces. The New York subway https://untappedcities.com/2014/05/02/6-places-to-see-keith-harings-artwork-in-nyc/ became a kind of “workshop,” the art atelier where new and reckless graphic solutions could be experimented. We remember his debut season with his words: «”One day, traveling on the subway, I …

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JOURNEY INTO THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE – When you discover that, you are part of a timeless universe

Journey into beauty, from Ferrara to Urbino Ferrara, https://www.ferraraterraeacqua.it/en/discover-the-area/routes-and-tours/cycling-mountain-biking/ferrara.-the-renaissance-city?set_language=en, one of the first Italian cities having opened up to the Renaissance and the creative minds that represented it, she saw the Este family rearrange the inhabited area full of narrow and nauseating alleys, replacing them with new avenues and neighborhoods. By observing the facade of its cathedral of San Giorgio …

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REVOLUTIONIZE OUR WAY OF LOOKING AT IT – Why some Renaissance images become famous

In the workshop of painters and photographers,  from Raphael to Kubrick By typing https://www.rinascimento.com/at-de/, you will have the opportunity to discover a Renaissance collection, letting yourself be dazzle by its bold colors. Instead, by entering https://www.keblog.it/foto-sembrano-dipinti-rinascimentali-accidental-renaissance/, you will learn that there are people who share photos of Renaissance paintings. The Renaissance art of Ventiko, a socially committed artist https://www.vice.com/it/article/bm5q5q/ventiko-fotografie-quadri-viventi-renaissance-presentation-social, takes …

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WHEN BEAUTY ADORNED VIRTUE – Welcome into Renaissance fashion

How to Dress in Renaissance Fashion During Renaissance, pieces of clothing are scarce, so, you can look pictorial media to understand what was fashionable. Maybe, you do not know, but if a dress was torn, it was reuse as a clothing for children. Also at that time Italy was a fashion forerunner, so, nothing better Italian portraiture to understand what …

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ITALIAN RENAISSANCE POETS, IN ADVANCE OF THEIR TIMES – Famous Italian poets and their remarkable works, in the shadow of Raffaello Sanzio

As good as Raphael, but as a poet In the Italy that you might visit, consider exploring its streets and creative horizons from the time of the painter Raffaello Sanzio. You will discover that “Il beccafico” was the title of a poem, which is the name of a bird belonging to the Italian wildlife, as well as a restaurant in …

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PETRARCHISM AND THE ITALIAN MADRIGAL – Phenomenology of literary communication at the time of Mattio Rampollini

When musical originality is faithful to tradition In their role as guardians, playing a primitive oboe, the municipal minstrels garrisoned the city towers of the fourteenth century and sensed the imminence of danger. In Germany, they were assign a trumpet with which to warn the passage of a ship on the river. They also learned to ring the bells in …

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QUOD TU ES EGO FUI. QUOD EGO SUM ET TU ERIS – What you are, I too was, what I am, you too will be

Monitor everyone, without respite and distraction, far from contagion This is an Author’s journey set in Italy, with a time horizon ranging from 1348 to 2021. The whole itinerary is focus on pandemics over the centuries, and on their ability to influence the mental and geographical views of vast territories. It will be a special Author’s journey, which will cross …

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FROM PLAGUE TO CORONAVIRUS – Journey into the memory of a different death

When epidemics rage in the cities, looking for infectors You have decided what to see, budget and destination, so it is time to build your trip, but add the places you want to see. If you decide to travel to Italy to create a travel itinerary to refer to, consider five places touched by the plague epidemics https://offtheshelf.com/2014/10/7-deadly-plague-books-you-should-read-before-youre-quarantined/. After returning …

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WHEN FLORENTINE CULTURE FECONDED ATTITUDES – Ambrogio Lorenzetti, an artist of the fourteenth century, between Madonnas and allegories

A profound humanity, within complex allegories Widespread in Europe since 1346, the great lawn mower commonly known as the other death or black plague https://www.ilpalio.org/gabrielli_pesteigine.htm had claimed over twenty million human lives before disappearing. In 1348, due to that epidemic and just like his brother, a man named Ambrogio also died in Siena. Fearing the imminence of his death, in …

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