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| Basilica di San Francesco Piazza San Francesco, Arezzo, 52100 |  |
I was determined to see this chapel last summer while driving through Tuscany. These frescoes were magnificent. We had a hard time finding the place since a lot of the citizens of Arezzo did not know where this place was... more
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| Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Piazza San Lorenzo 9, Firenze, 50123 | |
This strangely shaped anteroom has had scholars scratching their heads for centuries. In a space more than two stories high, why did Michelangelo limit his use of columns and pilasters to the upper two-thirds of the wall... more
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| Capitoline Museums 1 Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, 00186 | |
The Capitoline Museums are divided into Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo. Reading the history from room to room will enhance your apprciation considerably. The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been traced... more
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| Casa di Carlo Goldoni San Polo 2794, Venice, 30125 | |
Carlo Goldoni’s House seems a place of magic and theatre. The preparation has used the contemporary museography to safeguard the unique and unrepeatable specific quality of the Gothic building; it offers the best e... more
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| Castello di Rivoli Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli, 10098 |  |
There the similarities end, as even a rapid comparison of the current exhibition with either arte povera retrospective easily demonstrates. For all the founding prophecies of the Transavanguardia's promoter, who, in his ... more
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| Domus Aurea Via della Domus Aurea, Cancello Colle Oppio, Rome, 00184 |  |
The exterior setting of the Domus Aurea also reflected Nero’s particular mania for all things rural, incorporating such countryside elements as vineyards, orchards, vegetable gardens and parks, pastures and forests wit... more
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| Galleria degli Uffizi Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6, Florence, 50122 | |
Of course, we all know most of these masterpieces very well from reproductions - perhaps too well, because in many cases I found the "real thing" a big disappointment, the colours much more muted than I remembe... more
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| Galleria del Costume Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze, 50125 | |
The work Le tre età dell'uomo (The three ages of Man) has been object, in the course of history, to several attributions: Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto etc., until its restoration in 1987, when the doubts about ... more
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| Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Reali Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze, 50125 | |
Unlike most of the museums reorganised in recent times, the Palatine Gallery does not follow a chronological order nor schools of paintings, revealing instead the lavishness and personal taste of the inhabitants of the p... more
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| La Rocca Medioevale Viale Virgilio, Parco del Valentino, Turin, 10126 | |
Nell'appennino a sud-ovest di Bologna, dopo Casalecchio di Reno, Zola Predosa e Crespellano si incontra Bazzano, dominata dalla Rocca, che ha origini medioevali, ma deve la sua forma attuale a Giovanni II Bentivoglio, ch... more
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