What’s In A Name? In Frascati, It’s A Charming Italian City With Its Own Wine And Wonderful Food
In town the main square’s principal site is the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle, completed in 1598 with a fine façade but ...
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Drawing the Italian Renaissance: Raphael never seemed so beautifully ordinary
Beside him a dog is curled up fast asleep. This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist that appears at the start of this exhibition at The King’s ...
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Award ceremony for 15th China Cultural Center art competition held in Malta
VALLETTA, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- An award ceremony for the 15th China Cultural Center art competition, themed "a carnival float portraying Maltese and Chinese cultures," took place on Thursday at the ...
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Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table
In fact, Dalla Ragione has spent more than a decade scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to ...
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Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look
This focused exhibition will explore the figurative painter David Hockney’s lifelong association with the National Gallery and passionate interest in its collection in general and with the ...
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What's the 15th-century disease 'scurvy' making a comeback?
Image courtesy: BMJ Case Reports Scurvy may not be a disease you might have heard of in the 21st century. Yet, about 300 years after naval surgeon James Lind discovered citrus juice as a remedy for ...
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Uhuru in Abidjan to attend 15th High-Level retreat
The retreat will be held from October 25 and 26 2024 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The retreat will provide the opportunity to reflect on and review the AU’s mediation strategies and preventive ...
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The 20 best art museums in America
Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...
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Italian government faces backlash for celebrating WW2 fascists
Instead, "they were victims of (Italy's) colonial and fascist regime." Brothers of Italy traces its roots to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), formed in 1946 as a direct heir of Mussolini's ...
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Billboard’s Greatest Pop Stars of the 21st Century: No. 7 — Kanye West
Ye has been responsible for some of the greatest highs of this century in popular music, and for some lows that most artists would never be able to recover from. By Andrew Unterberger With the ...
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Stanley Tucci talks to us about his new film ‘Conclave’ and, of course, Italian food
NEW YORK — Should you mispronounce an Italian word in front of Stanley Tucci, you will get a lovely language lesson. This happens in the middle of our interview at the Whitby Hotel to talk about ...