Vittorio Gregotti Vittorio Gregotti (born 1927) is an Italian architect, born in Novara. He is head of the Gregotti Associati studio. His studio is author of the design of several important ...
Baroque theatres and staging The combination of two artistic innovations—the formulation of the laws of perspective in the 15th century and the production of the first opera in ...
Italian poet, critic, and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. Salvatore Quasimodo's works fall roughly into two periods, divided by World War II. His early ...
Gardens come in many varieties. Some are minimalist like the famous Zen garden at the Ryoan-ji temple in Kayoto, Japan. The garden consists of only an area of raked sand ...
Eugenio Montale was born into a family of businessmen in Genoa on October 12, 1896. During World War I, he served as an infantry officer on the Austrian front. Orginially ...
Prolific Italian playwright, actor and mime artist, manager-director, known for his satirical plays. Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1997. In his works Fo has combined oral ...
The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence. His father took ...
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (baptized March 23, 1609[1] - 1664), was an Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his elaborate ...
Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the ...
Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449—11 January 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo. In 1480, Ghirlandaio painted the Saint Jerome in His Study and other ...
The Basilica of Saint Lawrence (Italian: Chiesa di San Lorenzo Maggiore) is a church in Milan, northern Italy, dedicated to the Christian martyr St. Lawrence. Various suggestions of its origin ...
A piazza (Italian pronunciation: [Ėpjattsa]) is a city square in Italy, Malta, along the Dalmatian coast and in surrounding regions. The term is roughly equivalent to the Spanish plaza. In Ethiopia, ...
Italy Date of Inscription: 1995 Extension: 1999 Criteria: (ii)(iii)(iv)(v)(vi) Property : 46712.0000 ha Buffer zone: 117649.0000 ha City and Province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna Region N44 50 16 E11 37 10 ...
Around 1000 BC a wave of immigrants settled in the upper Tiber valley as far as the Adriatic Sea, and also in the neighborhood of Assisi. These were the Umbrians, ...
The Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Francesco d'Assisi, Latin: Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of ...
