5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT CHAPEL OF SANSEVERO IN NAPLES
In Naples, near Piazza San Domenico (San Domenico Square), there’s the Chapel of Sansevero.
It is a 16th- century building, completely restored by Prince Raimondo di Sangro during the 18th century, that houses some marvellous works of art.
5 things to know about the Chapel of Sansevero.
When you enter the first room of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection you feel like you’re inside a house born to be a museum.
In this post I’ll explain why Peggy committed herself heart and soul to this collection of works of art.
Contemporary art is not only made up of incomprehensible works of art, turn canvasses or absurd performances.
Some of you don’t understand it, some love it, and others are completely uninterested in the topic.
I do like contemporary art, and in this post, whose title is surreal, but that you will understand if you read it up to the end, I will show you what has amazed me the most in the last few weeks.
Write your own comment and let me know what you think about it!
The Museum of Precinema in Padua. It doesn’t often happen that you can observe at a short distance the objects and instruments illustrating the birth of cinema.
There’s a place where you can do that: the Museum of Precinema in Padua.
This is a one-of-a-kind place, which illustrates in three rooms the story of visionary men, famous artists and bizarre people, whose names we don’t even know, but who gave a breath of life to motionless images, and contributed to the birth of cinema.
The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum. My favourite museums are house museums, because they preserve their intimate and welcoming aspect typical of a house, but they narrate stories and events of their inhabitants, as well.
The house museums are not only art collections, but also containers of tales, and I talked about my latest passion for one of these house museums in the post about the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum.
Until October 2nd Milan will host an exhibition to celebrate the return home of one of its masterpieces, which we will admire together on September 9th 2016.
