Category: Museums and Exhibits

  • Venice Hosts Biggest Leonardo da Vinci Show in 30 years

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    The exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci, The Universal Man” will be at Venice’s Accademia, which owns 30 Leonardo works. It will bring together 27 other Leonardo masterpieces from various European museums such as the Uffizi, the National Gallery of Parma, the British Museum, and the Louvre. The iconic “Vetruvian Man” will be one of many highlights.…

  • The Art of Nobel Winner Dario Fo

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    Calling Italian playwright Dario Fo a “Renaissance” man would probably irk him given his long history of questioning authority and mocking the status quo. But Fo, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997 (one of six Italians to have won the literature prize) proves he is worthy of this nickname with the new…

    Dario Fo "Earthquake in L'Aquila"
  • Longer Hours for Rome’s Municipal Museums

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    In an initiative to allow locals and the throngs of summer tourists more time to enjoy Rome’s cultural riches, the City of Rome is keeping its municipal museums open from 8pm until 1am every Saturday through September 3. Which museums are municipal museums, you ask? They include the Capitoline Museums (pictured), the Ara Pacis Museum,…

  • Abruzzo’s Beffi Triptych

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    The Beffi Triptych spends time in the U.S. following the devastating earthquake in Abruzzo.

    Beffi Triptych Abruzzo Large