Bertel Thorvaldsen - Finestre sull'Arte

Canova and Thorvaldsen, the eternal challenge from which modern sculpture was born. The exhibition in Milan

Milan had to content itself with being irradiated by a lightning-fast reverberation of the dispute that pitted the two great rivals of neoclassical sculpture, Antonio Canova (Possagno, 1757 - Venice, 1822) and Bertel Thorvaldsen (Copenhagen, 1770...
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A poet and a countess in Venice: the love story between George Gordon Lord Byron and Teresa Gamba Guiccioli

They first met in Venice in the spring of 1819 in the drawing room of Countess Benzoni, one of the ladies who very often held receptions or simple "conversations" in her wealthy residence, and who was known at the time as the "Biondina in gondole...
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Masterpieces of the Academy of St. Luke at the Fortress of Bard

Opening today at the Fortress of Bard is the exhibition " Masterpieces of the National Academy of San Luca. From Raphael to Balla" in which 115 works from the precious collection of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, one of Italy's oldest cultural ...
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