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  WTI Magazine #21    2014 Mar, 14Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In common belief, it is thought that Donato Bramante was born in Milan or rather in Lombardy, but the truth is that he was born in 1444 in Fermignano, a small town near Urbino in the Marche region. In fact, the typical education from the center part of Italy, espec...

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  WTI Magazine #19    2014 Feb, 28Author : Enrico de Iulis      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   In the history of art it is defined "Mannerism" the generation of painters – from Florence to Rome - that are influenced by Raphael and Michelangelo innovations, merging and taking them on an extreme level. ...

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  WTI Magazine #85    2016 November 21Author : Enrico de Iulis      Translation by:   Italy has a network of museums that has been recently highlighted by the tourist guides, little known even by the most frequent art visitors: it is the great and diverse proposal of Diocesan Museums. Maybe because they are associated with an idea of monotonous...

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  WTI Magazine #75    2016 January 18Author : Giulia Carletti      Translation by:   Nineteenth and Twentieth century art enthusiasts will find their temple in the eternal city, at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM). Founded in 1883 in Rome, GNAM was born out of the efforts and the foresight of strong personalities, and fro...

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  WTI Magazine #47    2014 November, 12Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   2014 will be remembered in the world of Italian art as the year of Paolo Caliari, known as "Veronese". After decades of absence regarding him, Verona hosted a beautiful and comprehensive exhibition about the painter who more than any other has been linked to h...

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  WTI Magazine #15    2014 Jan, 31Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In 1968, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded on Italian soil destroyed Belice, an area of the western Sicily. Whole villages were razed, including Poggioreale, Salaparuta and Gibellina. In the narration of the slow and...

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  WTI Magazine #59    2015 May, 1Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: John Cabot University   The exhibition Barocco a Roma. La meraviglia delle arti (Baroque in Rome. The magnificence of arts) will be hosted in Rome until July 26th, 2015. Although this event can appear as one of the numerous artistic exhibition set in the cradle of Bar...

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  WTI Magazine #52    2015 January, 23Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   Relentlessly continues the appreciation of the nineteenth century in Italy with more and more beautiful exhibitions, characterized and comprehensive, to unveil a century little regarded by traditional critics because it was too close when the art historiography...

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  WTI Magazine #13    2014 Jan, 170Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In the last months of 2013 in Italy there has been a coincidence that maybe is not so random: two very different exhibits with a unique theme, the Wunderkammer.   The Wunderkammer, or "chamber of the wonders", is a room th...

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  WTI Magazine #17    2014 Feb, 14Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   If there is a dark zone, or something that is little known of the Italian Art, this is surely the late Romanesque period and the beginning of the Gothic one. In that portion of the history of art, especially with regard to the sculpture, after Wi...

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