Itineraries in Mantua: the Prince’s pathItineraries in Mantua: the Prince’s path

Friday July 1st, 2016 , Cities of Art

ITINERARIES IN MANTUA: THE PRINCE’S PATH

Itineraries in Mantua. Mantua is a pedestrian-friendly city, and you can easily reach everything you must see on foot, after a short walk, as I wrote in the post I dedicated to my journey to the 2016 Italian Capital of Culture.
There’s an itinerary that connects the two extremes of Mantua and which from the lakeside of the Lago di Mezzo (the Middle Lake) will bring you to the Te Palace, walking over the whole city and admiring its main palaces and monuments.

I walked along it and I suggest that you shouldn’t miss the opportunity to walk along the Prince’s path, because it will allow you to enter the very heart of Mantua.

Painters of light. Review of the exhibitions at the Mart museum

Thursday June 30th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

PAINTERS OF LIGHT. FROM DIVISIONISM TO FUTURISM: REVIEW OF THE EXHIBITION AT THE MART MUSEUM

Painters of light at the Mart Museum. The exhibition I pittori della luce. Dal Divisionismo al Futurismo (Painters of light. From Divisionism to Futurism) will arrive at the Mart Museum in Rovereto, and will illustrate the journey of two fundamental Italian artistic movements which marked a turning point in the Italian art.

I’ve already written that this exhibition at the Mart Museum in Rovereto will be the most important event in the 2016 summer in Trentino. Now that I visited it, I’m ready to tell you why you can’t miss it.

Free museums in Mantua: a cheap visit to the city of the Gonzaga family

Wednesday June 29th, 2016 , Cities of Art, Museums

Free museums in Mantua – the Basilica of Sant’Andrea

FREE MUSEUMS IN MANTUA: A CHEAP VISIT TO THE CITY OF THE GONZAGA FAMILY

Free museum in Mantua. Mantua offers a lot of chances to visit it without spending a lot of money.
Mantua is a small and pretty city you can reach using public transport (I got there by train), as I wrote in my post with my journey to discover Mantua, but it also offers the opportunity to visit it spending only € 20, thanks to the MantovaCard.
I made the list of the main museums you can visit using it.

But that’s not all!

Here is the list of the free museums you can visit in Mantua during your low-cost cultural visit.
That is what I think it is worth seeing without spending any money.

Bartolomeo Vivarini: Biography

Monday June 27th, 2016 , Artists and Works

Bartolomeo Vivarini, Madonna col Bambino e Santi, 1465, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli.

BARTOLOMEO VIVARINI

Bartolomeo Vivarini was born in Venice around 1430.
He was Antonio Vivarini’s younger brother (Read also the Biography of Antonio Vivarini) and they worked together for a series of polyptyches during 1450s.

Bartolomeo introduced a lot of new elements in painting, such as a careful attention to the features of faces of his characters, depicted like caricatures, and clear outlines of the figures.

The Biblioteca Teresiana: the historical library in Mantua

Friday June 24th, 2016 , More than art

THE BIBLIOTECA TERESIANA (THE TERESIANA LIBRARY): THE HISTORICAL LIBRARY IN MANTUA

The Teresiana Library. In the post I dedicated to my journey to Mantua, among things you must visit there’s also the Biblioteca Teresiana (the Teresiana Library).

Founded by the Empress Maria Theresa of Habsburg, the Library was opened to the public on March 30^th 1780 as the “Imperiale Regia Bibioteca” (“Imperial Royal Library”).