Meeting Benches World art in all forms

WILLIAM MULREADY 1/2 – Best known for his romanticizing depictions of rural scenes, he was an Irish genre painter. William Mulready (the pupil and brother-in-law of John Varley), he was born in Ennis, County Clare, but after six years its family moved to London, where he was accepted at the Royal Academy School. In 1802, he married Elizabeth (a landscape …

The Clonmacnoise monastic site, located on the banks of the River Shannon, and always conquers the heart of its visitors. Today, the site today consists of seven ruined churches and three high crosses, an cathedral and two round towers. At the end of the 9th century, the Vikings targeted these settlements. An Irish bishop, was the founder of this place …

Tom Lehrer– The Irish ballad > About a maid I’ll sing a song, sing rickety-tickety-tin, about a maid I’ll sing a song who didn’t have her family long, not only did she do them wrong, she did every one of them in, them in she did every one of them in. One morning in a fit of pique, sing rickety-tickety-tin, …

THE FISHERMAN, by William Butler Yeats > Although I can see him still, the freckled man who goes to a gray place on a hill, in gray Connemara clothes, at dawn to cast his flies. It’s long since I began to call up to the eyes, this wise and simple man. All day I’d looked in the face what I …

You can read this novel, is an partly epistolary novel written by Irish novelist Sydney Owenson. Is a romance set in Ireland, pages where you can find wild landscapes and ruins. The story involves a young Englishman, a kind of prodigal son who is banished to his aristocratic father’s Irish estates. In this setting and among these characters Horatio learns …

BENOZZO GOZZOLI 1/3 – Benozzo Gozzoli he was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence, best known for a series of murals in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi depicting festive processions (in fresco-painting he used the methods of tempera), with fine attention to detail. The art of Gozzoli is pre-eminently attractive by its sense of what is rich, winning, lively and abundant in …

The year 1420 (MCDXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, but someone special was born. Benozzo Gozzoli was born in 1420, near Florence (the city where they worked Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi and Paolo Uccello, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca), which is associated with the Guild of Painters. At age 18 he is in …

Landscape painting is the depiction in art of landscapes (such as mountains and valleys, trees, rivers and forests), with its elements inside coherent composition. The history of Roman painting is essentially a history of wall paintings on plaster, and it is thanks to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that we can trace the history of Roman wall painting. Until …

Under a blanket of stars Roma looks beautiful to me. Lonely my heart, disillusioned of love, wants to sing in the shadow. A fountain wetsuit, and a balcony up there, oh Roman guitar, you accompany me. Plays, plays my guitar, letting crying my heart, without a home and without love, only you remain to me. If the voice is a …

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. Ancient Roman Music …

The word “Pantheon” is a Greek adjective, meaning “honor all Gods”. The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome. The exact composition of the material is still unknown and appears to be structurally similar to modern day concrete. The 16 massive Corinthian …

We visit Rome every year for a few days, and our first port of call is always Hostaria Pantheon: the food is gorgeous, the view is astounding while you sit and have a cold glass of wine, but above all the staff are brilliant (Franco, Nico and the rest of the staff make you feel so welcome). They want that …