Tagged "sculpture"
Arte Laguna Prize widens the opportunities for artists and launches 2 new art residencies, one in China and one dedicated to marble!
Therefore the deadline is postponed to November 27th by mail and to December 5th directly on-line on the website www.artelagunaprize.com
2 NEW ART RESIDENCIES by submitting two artworks in the same section
NEW – “Loft Miramarmi”: Art residency in Vicenza, in the marble district for 1 month for 2 artists + realization of a project ...
The author of ''A Season of Art Nouveau in Riccione " and ''Romagna Liberty'' exposes the sculpture "Totem Riccion "
Turin, Exhibition Palace, Sala Nervi
by Vittorio Sgarbi
Andrea Speziali, author of ''A Season of Art Nouveau in Riccione " and ''Romagna Liberty'', reaches the 54° Italy Pavilion of the International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, for the 150th Unit of Italy, with the sculpture ''Totem Riccione'' produced in 2009 with different types of plaster (size: 30 x ...
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 ...
You have time until the 11th of November to submit your artworks to the 6th International Arte Laguna Prize.
The Prize is dedicated to contemporary visual artists from all over the world, who can decide freely topics and techniques of their artworks, choosing between 5 section: painting, sculpture, photographic art, video-art and performance, virtual art (dedicated to artworks created using softwares and apps for smartphones and tablets).
But the Arte Laguna Prize is not just a competition: ...
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 ...
Cartasia 2012, Biennial of Contemporary Art, announces the opening of entries to the competition of sculpture in paper and cardboard.
As in years past the selected artists will take part in the open-air exhibition which will take place in Lucca from 30 June to July 29, 2012, and the winner will receive a cash prize of € 2,000 .00.
The event will be a breath of customary international and is shaping up to be an ...
This is the third biggest square in Rome, having the surface of 17,100 sqm or 61.353 sqf.
Its name means literally Poplar’s square after the row of these trees that were close to the obelisk, parallel to a boundary wall at Pincio’s hill, at the eastern side of the square, before the final 1823 architectural arrangement done by Giuseppe Valadier and also shown on an oil painting by Caspar van Wittel whose perspective was taken from ...
The hundred year old monument built to celebrate the first king of the United Kingdom of Italy, Savoy’s King Vittorio Emanuele II, the Vittoriano represents the Unity of the Country and the Freedom of its People.
The big complex was built using a thousand tons of candid marble from Lombardy, the northern region of Italy.
Before the construction began an entire medieval area of Rome was demolished to find the space for it, and that was the ...
Heat, sun, sea. Nature is the real queen in this part of the Earth rising between two seas, which has as its centre the noble Lecce. Respecting traditions, it is an oasis of culture framed by uncontaminated sea, white beaches, indented coasts, wild nature and hills covered with olive trees.
Lecce is the heart of Salento region, a city to discover with the nose turned-up. The eyes are enchanted by the flowers in the limestone rock ...
Latest heritage
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 ...
An extraordinary historical collection of exceptional interest, telling the technical evolution of the Fire Brigade National Corps.
The first and only Fire Brigade Historical Museum opened to the public and housed in a ...
21 March, 2012 at 2:26 pm | on Museums
The navigation lock of Governolo brings us back to the period of Attila king of the Huns.
According to the tradition, this is the place where, in 452, the historic encounter took place ...
