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Italian Art 101 – Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, forgotten genius
Violent, mercurial and generally feared, he was also a pioneering and technically innovative artist years ahead of his time. But despite being one of the most skilled painters of the 17th century...
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Behind the mask – Traditional mask making in Venice
Venice is famous for many things. Canals. Murano glass. Giacomo Casanova. But perhaps some of the most evocative images come from the masked Carnival celebrations every spring. Traditional Carnival...
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Italian Art 101 – Lacoon and His Sons, Vatican Museum
The Vatican Museum is one of the must-see spots in Rome and one of the most popular museums in the world. And rightly so. Over 70,000 priceless works of art are on display and countless more are tucked...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Express Yourself
There are few things I love more than walking around a city searching out graffiti. In fact I can while away hours hunting down the little urban truffles left by anonymous artists. It doesn’t have to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Broken
Italy is famous for its art, whether it’s Michelangelo’s Davide in Florence, Tiziano’s Assumption in Venice or Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Paris. Some works, particularly statues and architecture, have...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Vivid
The theme for this week’s photo challenge is “vivid”. Vivid blue glass sculpture catching the sunlight in a window overlooking the Grand Canal, Peggy Guggenheim Gallery, Venice Suggestions included...
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Free entry to Italian state museums on first Sunday of every month!
We all like a freebie, right? Well how about free tickets to over 300 Italian state museums, gardens, monuments and archeological sites? Interested? Thought you might be!! Read on……. Free admission at...
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Banksy street art : a new exhibition in Rome
If you like street art, you’re probably familiar with the enigmatic, anonymous artist known as Banksy. His wonderfully satirical, sardonic, subversive and increasingly political images including “Girl...
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