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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »BIRTH OF A GENIUS OF ART – Urbino, Good Friday of April 6, 1483, at three in the morning
Raffaello Sanzio and his Renaissance season At this moment, when the painter of grace and beauty died, an earthquake shook Rome and a storm obscured the sun. For Giorgio Vasari, Raffaello Sanzio was fond of women and carnal delights. Marcantonio Michiel, on the other hand, narrated that on the death of the great painter from Urbino, cracks were create inside …
Read More »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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »PHOTOGRAPHING DURING THE PANDEMIES – The defining photos of a pandemic: stories behind them
Keeping creativity flowing close your home From one day to the next, and this has always been the case, people have lost not only their means of subsistence, but also the certainties of their daily routines. The widespread impact of any pandemic has always hit hard, taking people’s daily lives by surprise around the world. Even the photographers have reacted, …
Read More »WRITING, IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH – Poets who tell the pain, between skepticism and meanness
Still, new springs will return How have the recurring elements in the realities that poets and writers were experiencing, also in light of the explosion of the Black Death pandemic, been told in literature? There is a way of behaving men in the presence of fears, which Cecco Angiolieri and Franceschino degli Albizzi have lived and told, in Siena and …
Read More »POLYPHONIC SONGS IN THE GARDEN OF LOVE – Singing polite, at the time of the Black Plague
When a pandemic changes the musical landscape In the motets of a courteous setting, he masterfully used a compositional practice based on the elaboration of the melodic and rhythmic component. Before dying in Reims in 1377, the city where he was born around 1300, a musician and poet Guillaume de Machault, in the service of the King of Bohemia John …
Read More »GIOVANNI VENTURA, A PHYSICIAN OF THE PLAGUE – The bitter memory of terrible days
When silk streets turned into contagion routes Inside the file 443, in the historical archive of a city, a contract drawn up in 1479 between a young doctor and the public authorities of those places is still preserve today. In exchange for the monthly salary of thirty florins, as well as a comfortably furnished house in the city, Giovanni Ventura …
Read More »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 …
Read More »INDIVIDUALITY AND CREATIVITY – Generating artistic innovations in Japan
Domain-specificity of creativity and Japanese people In their country, a flower represents the fragility and beauty of life. In Japanese culture, the meaning of the cherry blossom tree dates back to ancient times. As you begin your trip to Japan https://www.japan.travel/en/, it is advisable never to forget, under any circumstances, that life can be wonderfully beautiful, but also short. It …
Read More »SOMETHING BRIGHT AND FUN – Yuki Ogura, a very prolific artist
A Japanese Modern & Contemporary artist The warmth and humanity in her work, makes she endearing to audiences. Her maiden name was Yuki Mizoguchi. Yuki Ogura http://www.artnet.com/artists/yuki-ogura/ was born in ÅŒtsu city (Shiga Prefecture), into a March day, in 1895. Her home-studio were located in Kamakura, where she lived to the age of 105. Her work has been offered at …
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