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What Is Botticelli’s Greatest Painting? The 10 Most Iconic Works by the Florentine Artist, Ranked
Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli created great masterpieces of the Renaissance. Do you know all of Botticelli's most ...
Parmigianino: The Vision of St Jerome – masterpiece given 'new lease of life'
Now back on display after a decade of restoration work, the Italian mannerist Parmigianino's "huge" altarpiece "The Vision of ...
The Art Newspaper1d
The Big Review: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 at the Royal Academy
The small but provocative survey offers a stimulating view on which of the Old Masters launched the High Renaissance ...
Book extract - Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
Scott Young, bestselling author of Ultralearning, explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible ...
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From Plato to Poland: Zamość & the Dream of Utopia
They brought to life a vision of an ideal city ... Among them were, for instance, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vasari and Filarete, a Florentine architect who designed Sforzinda – a utopian city that ...
CNN19d
Secret passageway through one of Italy’s most famous cityscapes opens to public for first time
space was designed for the ruling Medici dynasty in 1565 by artist and architect Giorgio Vasari. The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence’s three ...
The Hamilton Spectator19d
Secret passage that Florence’s Medici used to move safely reopens to public after 8-year renovation
ROME (AP) — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former ...
WTOP News18d
Secret passage that Florence’s Medici used to move safely reopens to public after 8-year renovation
The corridor, named after the Renaissance architect and biographer Giorgio Vasari, who designed it, is some 750 meters (820 yards) long. It stretches from the Uffizi Museums to the imposing ...
National Catholic Register25d
Los Angeles Priest Recounts the Miracle That Paved Way for Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Canonization
“What we are called to do is to imitate the holiness of Pier Giorgio and pray for his intercession, especially for young people who are so confused today and so looking for answers to life and ...