Leonardo Da Vinci

Culture
by Mark Collinson |
On the 15th of April 1452 in the hills of Tuscany, Italy, a peasant girl named Caterina gave birth to an illegitimate son in a small town called Vinci. The…
Culture
by Christine Webb |
The first time I saw the strange landscape of Le Balze was from a train speeding between Arezzo and Florence. The InterCity Express leaves the roads behind,…
Culture
by John Bensalhia |
John Bensalhia brushes up on one of the most famous sectors of the Italian Renaissance – the art world. (Read Part 1 - Introduction and Overview…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The Louvre Museum will lend Italy three Leonardo masterpieces for an important exhibition that will coincide in part with the Milan Expo 2015. Belle…
Culture
by Anonymous (not verified) |
More than 200 concerts, plays and exhibitions have been organized in Milan to mark Italy's semester in the European Union presidency, which began July 1. The…
Culture
by John Bensalhia |
In our fourth article dedicated to the Italian Renaissance, John Bensalhia describes the most important advances in science. (Read Part 1 - Introduction…
Culture
by Katia Amore |
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is staging an exhibition featuring forty-two masterpieces of Central and Southern Italian Renaissance…
Culture
by Silvia Donati |
The beautiful landscapes seen in the background of many Renaissance paintings, including those by Piero della Francesca, Raphael, and Leonardo Da Vinci,…
Travel
by Silvia Donati |
The Villa Medici del Vascello, one of the most important residential castles in the province of Cremona, reopened at the beginning of May after a nine-year…