The Girl with a Pearl Earring: 5 things to know

Monday August 14th, 2017 , 5 Things to know, Artists and Works

THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING: 5 THINGS TO KNOW

The Girl with a Pearl Earring is a painting by Johannes Vermeer, which exactly like Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is one of the world’s most famous paintings, and also one of the most reproduced.
It’s a painting which evokes beauty and mystery, a face which continues to fascinate everyone who admires it in person, or has discovered it through movies and books, even after more than three centuries.

The painting is also known as “Head of a Girl with a Turban”, and in this post I’ll tell you 5 things to know to really know it.

Intervista a Rabarama: il corpo come emozione

Sunday August 13th, 2017 , Contemporary Art, Artists and Works

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What to see in Pavia

Friday August 11th, 2017 , Cities of Art

Image source: Circuito città d’arte.it

WHAT TO SEE IN PAVIA

If you are looking for an itinerary explaining you what to see in Pavia, that’s the right post for you.
Pavia was the capital of the Kingdom of the Lombards, and is home to one of the oldest universities in the world, founded in 1361.
The heart of the city is Piazza della Vittoria (Vittoria Square), but all around it there are churches, museums and monuments illustrating the glorious and, in some respects, mysterious past of Pavia.

Here is what to see in Pavia, which is a list of 5 places to discover this beautiful city.

Louvre tickets: how to buy your ticket to skip the line

Wednesday August 9th, 2017 , Museum Tickets

LOUVRE MUSEUM TICKETS: WHERE AND HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKET TO SKIP THE LINE

Louvre tickets: To visit the Louvre museum organization is what you need, and if you buy in advance the tickets in order to avoid the endless line at the entrance, your visit will start off on the right foot.
I did this way when I visited the museum for the first time, and having a priority access ticket was a big advantage, because it allowed me to have more time to understand how to move inside the rooms and which sections to focus on to avoid losing the most important artworks on display.
I wrote a post containing all the things you have to know about the Louvre museum, where I explained that it is a huge museum divided into 7 departments, displaying about 30,000 objects.
In this post, instead, you’ll find the information to book your tickets to the Louvre museum.

History of fashion: an exhibition

Tuesday August 8th, 2017 , Events and Exhibitions

Vittorio Corcos, Ritratto di Carolina Maraini Sommaruga, 1901.
Roma, Fondazione per Istituto Svizzero

HISTORY OF FASHION IN THE ARTS OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY

Paintings, sculptures, fans and period dresses will trace, in the rooms of the Züst Art Gallery, located in Rancate in the near Ticino, a crucial phase in history of fashion.
In the late 19^th century women felt the need to “be fashionable” even outside their own homes.

It’s the paintings by great artists such as Giovanni Segantini, Gaetano Previati, Federico Zandomeneghi, Giuseppe De Nittis and many more that illustrate the rapid and surprising evolution of women’s clothing, and therefore this key moment of history of fashion and costume.
Their works will be displayed in the exhibition “DIVINE CREATURE. The woman and the fashion in the arts of the late nineteenth century”