Trentino - Finestre sull'Arte

Brian Eno will create two striking multimedia installations of images and sounds in Trentino castles

English composer and visual artist Brian Eno (Woodbridge, 1948) will inaugurate two multimedia installations, Audio Installation for Buonconsiglio and 77 Million Painting for Beseno, in the historic spaces of Castello del Buonconsiglio and Castel Bes...
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The cycle of the months of Torre Aquila in the Castello del Buonconsiglio: an International Gothic masterpiece in Trento

On the walls of Torre Aquila, located at the southern end of the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trent, the seat of prince-bishops from the 13th to the 18th century, is one of the most famous secular cycles of international Gothic, that dedicated to th...
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Simoninus of Trent: the "abusive saint" constructed by late 15th century propaganda to stir up anti-Semitic hatred

One might feel a sort of unpleasant embarrassment knowing that it took almost four hundred years for the Church to erase a cult that, over the centuries, has fed anti-Semitic prejudice, with the aggravating circumstance of having exploited the b...
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Romanino's Loggia in Trento's Buonconsiglio Castle: history and significance of a 16th-century masterpiece

"A kind of vault of the Farnesina, as far as illustrative tasks and formal distribution are concerned": this is how, in 1930, art historian Antonio Morassi defined the Loggia Grande of the Buonconsiglio Castle in Trento, one of the most sumptuous...
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