Michelangelo
by Silvia Donati |
Right in the heart of Monti, one of Rome’s most beautiful neighborhoods, roughly halfway along Via Cavour, is a little-known church not many tourists…
by Silvia Donati |
Think you have to spend tons of money on entrance fees to see everything worth seeing in Rome? Not true. There are many sites, famous and not as famous, which…
by Silvia Donati |
On December 8, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door at St. Peter’s Basilica Dome, thus inaugurating the extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. The door at St. Peter…
by Barry Lillie |
Photo by: 055Firenze.it
Love it or loathe it there’s no escaping from graffiti and though many people think it’s the scourge of modern society the truth is…
by Silvia Donati |
Two bronze sculptures on display at Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum could be the work of Michelangelo. If the attribution is confirmed, they would be the only…
by John Bensalhia |
Standing the test of time, the architecture of the Renaissance invokes a sense of grandeur and majesty. John Bensalhia looks at both the…
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…
by Silvia Donati |
After three years of work, the Vatican Museums have installed a new lighting system with LED technology in the Sistine Chapel intended to protect the artworks…
by Georgette Jupe |
What makes Michelangelo’s David so famous?
Victor Coonin, an art history professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, has recently published a book that…
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