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Discovering Rome: the Rione Monti district

26 April, 2020

The Rione Monti district has always been a world apart from the other areas of Rome; even its dialect was slightly different from the one spoken in the city. In order to make room for the famous Via dei Fori,…

Art exhibition Italy: celebrating 500 years of Palladio

25 April, 2020

In Vicenza celebrations have begun to celebrate the fifth centenary of the birth of Andrea Palladio. In fact, on September 20 we will see the inauguration of “Palladio 500” at the Palazzo Barbaran da Porto.Blog dolce vita already reported on…

Sistine Chapel in danger from sweat and dust

23 April, 2020

Professor Antonio Paolucci, a Vatican museum director has revealed that Sistine Chapel frescoes by Michelangelo are facing the risk of being damaged by visitors’ sweat. Dust and hair are also potential enemies. These rather shocking news came at the end…

Italian art: Caravaggio outstrips Michelangelo

22 April, 2020

According to the New Yok times and Philip Sohm, an art historian at the University of Toronto, Caravaggio has surpassed Michelangelo in popularity and this has not only been proved by a spate of essays and writings which have recently…

Lost Michelangelo Pieta found in America by Italian art historian

20 April, 2020

I don’t know what to think of this, but apparently an unfinished painting of the Virgin Mary and Christ by Michelangelo has been discovered in America by Italian art historian Antonio Forcellini. For more than 30 years this rather small…

Touring Italy and its monuments: use it or lose it advertising campaign

16 April, 2020

A new advertising campaign in Italy to promote Italian monuments has a threatening slogan of “if you don’t visit it, we’ll take it away”, developed by the cultural and arts ministry. It’s an odd way of promoting tourism in Italy,…

Michelangelo's Rondanini Pietà restored and on display in Milan

14 April, 2020

Milan is hosting a rather interesting art exhibition called Michelangelo, la pietà Rondanini e il Crocefisso ritrovato and devoted to the great marble sculpture that the artist created between 1550 and 1564. So if you are an art buff you…

Italy: row over ownership of Michelangelo's David

13 April, 2020

The city of Florence and the Italian state are furiously fighting over the ownership of Michelangelo’s masterpiece David. The famous statue has been Florence’s mascot since 1504 when it was put on display at the entrance of Palazzo Vecchio as…

From Donatello to Perugino: early Renaissance Masters on show in Rome

4 April, 2020

With this new exhibition at the Museo del Corso, Rome steps into the spotlight once again. An exhibition that aims to show the world Rome’s contribution to the fifteenth century early Renaissance Art which many of us usually link to…

Michelangelo on Second Life in "Musei in Comune 2.0"

29 March, 2020

Ancient Rome in 3D is on Google Earth, there is the Virtual Museum of the Ancient via Flaminia, and soon we will have more Italian art exhibitions on Second Life. The first Italian project on Second Life was Experience Italy,…

Florence: National Geographic to search for the lost Leonardo

26 March, 2020

In order to find out what happened to Leonardo‘s Battle of Anghiari, the city of Florence has stricken a deal with the National Geographic Society for 250,000 euros. The world’s most important Geographic society will now try to unearth a…

Christmas in Rome: Michelangelo 's Madonna with child on display at Capitoline Museums

24 March, 2020

Done in black and red pencil, Michelangelo’s Madonna with Child will be on display at the Capitoline Museums (Sala dei Capitani) until January 10th. The drawing on loan from the Casa Buonarroti Foundation, has always been regarded by the critics…

Michelangelo's drawings on display in Amalfi

24 March, 2020

The town of Amalfi is hosting until 22 November an art exhibition devoted to Michelangelo, one of the greatest geniuses of the Renaissance period. At the Antichi Arsenali della Repubblica, visitors will have the unique opportunity to see six drawings…

Rome: Michelangelo Buonarroti, architect, drawn into view with new exhibition

23 March, 2020

Michelangelo‘s art has, over the centuries, attracted millions of people from all over the world and Rome the city where the artist gave birth to many of his masterpieces will soon host an important exhibition devoted to his architectural projects.…

Michelangelo's architectural projects on display at Castello Forzesco, Milan

20 March, 2020

Michelangelo was a genius and his immense artistic talent ranged from painting to architecture; he could do almost anything! So in order to celebrate this unparalleled ingenuity, the city of Milan, in collaboration with Casa Buonarroti, is to host a…