San Domenico museum in Forlì. Forlì is not a place of transit, and you have to go there for a reason, and I always go to Forlì to see the exhibitions arranged at the San Domenico museum.
The San Domenico museum are a set of museums in the heart of the city and it is the result of the restoration of the historical complex of San Domenico: the Church of San Giacomo and two cloisters.
Aldus Manutius’s exhibition. In 2015 the 500th anniversary of the death of Aldus Manutius, the most important printer in the history, who transformed Venice into the international capital of printing, was celebrated.
The celebration of this anniversary will end this year with an exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, through an itinerary consisting of over 100 works of art and more than 30 very rare editions printed between the end of the 15th century and the early 16th century.
The exhibition will retrace a unique period in the history of Western Europe, during which the book was really capable of changing the world, and creating the basis for the development of the Renaissance.
The Crucifixion for Vittoria Colonna. There’s a work by Michelangelo nobody has ever seen, but it was replicated and reinterpreted by numerous artists, who used it as a model for all the representations of the Crucifixion in which Christ is painted as the one who was capable of winning the death.
Michelangelo was the first who depicted the Crucified Christ alive, with his head upward, open eyes and in the attempt to lift from the cross. His painting was in contrast with the traditional representation of Christ suffering, with his head bent downwards otherwise in a regal and collected posture.
The British Museum in London holds a drawing of this work, considered the lost masterpiece by Michelangelo Buonarroti, or the masterpiece he never painted. It belonged to the Roman noblewoman Vittoria Colonna, and it is considered the drawing the Florentine artist himself painted and donated to the woman.
Church of Santa Maria Antiqua. Reopened to the public in March 2016, the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome was discovered in 1900 within the Roman Forum. It’s an inestimable treasure, closed for restorations since 1980s.
Built in the 6th century in the Roman Forum on the ruins of the Palace of Domitian, buried under rubble after an earthquake in 847, brought to light thanks to the 1900 excavations, the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome was closed to the public for 30 years.
The Church contains a unique collection of wall paintings, one of the few artistic exemplars in the world of the development of Roman and Hellenistic-Byzantine figurative art.
Among an exhibition, a museum, an event and a preview, and almost without realizing it, today we celebrate the blog’s third birthday.
That’s right!
Three years ago I decided to start a blog in order to write what was happening to me and what I couldn’t find on the Web.
In the beginning, my blog was a kind of “messy notes of ideas about exhibitions to see, museums to discover, and cities to visit”; but since then many things have changed.
