Franca Manenti Valli (Reggio Emilia, 1930) è architetto e storica dell'architettura. Laureata in Architettura all'Università di Firenze ha lavorato a lungo con il suo studio, fondato assieme al marito Giovanni Manenti, nell'ambito del restauro degli edifici storici, soprattutto rinascimentali. Studiosa dei sistemi metrici antichi e dei loro collegamenti con la simbologia teologica, ha analizzato i rapporti forma-misura-numero di alcune opere leonardesche e di diversi edifici antichi. Dal 1996 al 2002 è stata consigliere dell’Istituto Beni Culturali dell’Emilia-Romagna, inoltre ha insegnato alla facoltà di Architettura di Firenze e all'Ateneo Pontificio di Roma.
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Late in the afternoon of July 10, at around 7:20 p.m., a fire struck the Royal Site of Carditello, affecting one of its appurtenant woods, the so-called Eucalyptus Woods. The area, located behind the main entrance to the Bourbon Royal Palace, was in ...
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On the evening of Friday, June 2025, the restoration of thefresco depicting Saint Ivo among the Pupils by Masolino da Panicale (Panicale, 1383 - Florence, 1440), one of the fundamental figures of the early Italian Renaissance, was presented to the pu...
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The Special Superintendence of Rome has returned to the city one of its rarest and most fascinating examples of architectural decoration: the facade of the Church of Saints Nereus and Achilleus, made with the graffito technique, unique in Rome. The r...
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Rome and Petra recently signed a twinning agreement that promises to strengthen cultural, tourism and economic relations between the two World Heritage sites. The twinning in particular is between the Colosseum Archaeological Park and thePetra Author...
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An interplay of transparencies, reflections and visual metamorphoses: this is at the heart of the exhibition Vitroepifanie, a solo show by Elisa Sighicelli (Turin, 1968) that the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan opens to the public from Feb. 21 to May 2...
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More collaborations between Italian museums and Saudi museums. After the MANN in Naples and after the agreement between Matera and Al-Ula, Triennale di Milano and the Commission for Museums of Saudi Arabia have in fact signed an agreement to strength...
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A dialogue between design and photography comes to life at Milan 's Castello Sforzesco with the exhibition Design al femminile, il progetto sensibile, an exhibition that celebrates the creativity and sensitivity of 32 international designers through ...
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In Florence, on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the death of Cosimo I de' Medici and Giorgio Vasari, Palazzo Vecchio celebrates their extraordinary artistic partnership with an exhibition dedicated to the decoration of the Sala Grande, bette...
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