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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The Museum is also a cultural center, presenting a broad program of concerts and poetry readings. A major aim of the Museum's activities is to promote awareness of Roerich's ideas about art and culture, as embodied in the Museum's symbol and its motto, Pax ...
Genius and innovation. The new Museum creates added value for Tuscany.
The renovation of the Museo Leonardiano, one of the most important collections dedicated to the Genius from Tuscany, is of fundamental importance for the town of Vinci and the surrounding area and marks a further milestone on the path of innovation embarked on by the enterprising museum team. Following the opening of the new museum area in Palazzina Uzielli ...
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HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY – BERLIN
2012 MAY FROM 7th TO 12th
The Humboldt University is the oldest University of Berlin and it represents a model of modern University that combines teaching and research in humanistic tradition; it also gave a substantial contribution to scientific progress. Twenty-nine Nobel Prizes did their studies in this University: Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger. Many others celebrities have been in this University, such as: Fichte, Hegel, Schopenauer, ...
San Gimignano, the worldwide famous “Town of beautiful towers” hosts a strange but perfect experiment of history and modern mix. So it happens that a Medieval History Museum, SanGimignano1300 and a contemporary Art gallery, iSculpture, coexist in adjacent rooms.
Beside the faithful reconstruction of the miniatured town as existed in the 14Th century, we can find a selection of contemporary sculptures, realized in various materials, from bronze to ceramic, alabaster, wood and recycled metals.
Someone may ...
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what he has to say"
(Italo Calvino)
The House of Corto Maltese continues its program of exhibitions, for the occasion hosts the journey: "Around the invisibles cities" of two Venetian artists: Franco Fabris and Alberto Valese: the first for the drawings, and the second for the micro sculptures .
- Invisible Cities, or the visible Venice.
"Marco Polo tells Kublai Khan had visited a city where you stand sixty ...
Even the most hardened travelers have a place to come back. Corto Maltese, the famous character created by Hugo Pratt, has traveled extensively, but its "home", the place to take shelter and rest among family things, has always been Venice. Hence it could only be opened in Venice, the first house-museum dedicated to him.
The project, conceived and realized by Manuela Marchesani, is inspired by the "home of Sherlock Holmes" in London. In the spaces made ...
The centrally located Piazza Eremitani contains the City Museums, i.e., the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, housed in the cloisters of the old monastery of the Eremitani monks. The Scrovegni Chapel also forms part of this complex of buildings.
The original nucleus of Padova's City Museums can still be recognised in the rich collections which became public property with the suppression of the Convento di San Giovanni da ...
Two months ago, the prestigious National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution of Washington DC, had launched a major on-line survey to define the video game protagonists of the exhibition "The Art of Video Games", an event dedicated to the milestones of the video-game industry.
The large survey has recently been concluded and the results have rewarded some of the most beloved video games of all time. The exhibition will take place from May 16 to September 30 ...
A new exhibition about Nero, Rome’s most famous emperor, opened in Rome last month. It focuses on the ‘dark legend’ surrounding this emperor who was accused of murdering both his mother and his wife, and fiddling while Rome burned. From the ashes of Rome he built a grand palace, the Domus Aurea, or Golden House, which stretched across the Palatine, Velian, Oppian and Caelian hills, and the valley of the Colosseum. The enormous complex was ...
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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and work. The ...
31 May, 2013 at 7:41 pm | on Museums
Genius and innovation. The new Museum creates added value for Tuscany.
The renovation of the Museo Leonardiano, one of the most important collections dedicated to the Genius from Tuscany, is ...
31 May, 2013 at 6:57 pm | on Museums
In the late 1920s, three progressive and influential patrons of the arts, Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., perceived a need to challenge the ...
1 January, 2013 at 8:22 pm | on Museums
Built in a historic area near temple of Gawdawpalin, on the banks of Ayeyarwaddy, a few steps away from Old Bagan Archaeological Museum.
The architect has combined influences that reflect the ancient and ...
Bottega Artigianale Lavacca is an artisanal workshop where love for wood, culture and respect for the traditions of master artisan Mario and his son Libero manifests in creations designed and made entirely ...