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Arts - 8 Luglio

The (Un)Familiar: Rethinking the Italian Renaissance Nude with Jill Burke

In The Italian Renaissance Nude (Yale University Press, 2018), Dr. Jill Burke, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, constructs a novel interpretation of the Renaissance nude by examining how nakedness, both in art and everyday life, was perceived at the time. In conversation with Ilgin Nas, a senior at Harvard College, she provides […]

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Arts - 22 Maggio

Towards a More Complete Biography of Vittoria Colonna with Ramie Targoff

Ramie Targoff, Professor of English at Brandeis University, discusses her new biography Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018). She is joined by Amelia Linsky, Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies at Harvard University.

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Arts - 21 Settembre 2018

The Spectacle of Mathematics, in Arielle Saiber’s Measured Words

Arielle Saiber’s Measured Words takes readers through seminal works of four exceptional Renaissance ‘computers,’ her term for scholars engaged in mathematics as language. The four exceptional thinkers, calculators and writers Saiber has chosen to explore in the book – Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia and Giambattista Della Porta – “unequivocally demonstrate how mutually meneficial conversation […]

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Travel - 29 Aprile 2018

Palazzo Strozzi, Young Americans, and the Renaissance in New York

The award includes a month-long sojourn in Florence – where students take coursework in Renaissance studies – and excursions to other major Italian cities. The creator and backer of the High School Renaissance Award is journalist Mario Calvo Platero, Chairman of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation US.

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Lifestyles - 13 Dicembre 2017

I Think, I Act and I Construct: Scientists, The Pioneers of Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial scientists help to transform the most complex problems in the world of research into businesses. To raise the number of scientists setting up businesses and find equal interests in research work and its entrepreneurial translation, a country must be equipped with laboratories where scientists can combine thought with action.

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Arts - 3 Dicembre 2017

In New York, Hope for the Future is Found Again with Leonardo and Michelangelo

After two centuries, two great Tuscan artists are at the center of cultural life in the capital of modernism. In times of moral, value, and identity crises in the Western world, Leonardo and Michelangelo have remained pillars of stability that reassure us of our model of civilization.

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Arts - 16 Ottobre 2017

Thanks to the Digital Artisans, the Florentine Renaissance Revives

Cultural consumption is a historical legacy of the Renaissance that still permeates our ways of thinking, communicating and interacting. The modern-day renaissance generation consists of millions of individuals, highly diversified on age, who share a passion for entrepreneurship associated with technology and culture.

"Botticelli and the Search of Divine" at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Arts - 12 Giugno 2017

Botticelli and the Search of the Divine

Until July 9, the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston hosts the exhibition "Botticelli and the Search of Divine" with thirty works by the Italian painter that focuses on Botticelli's visual poetry and his different styles during the years, from mythological subjects to religious ones

mona-lisa

Arts - 6 Aprile 2017

Leonardo and Rome: The Special Relationship

"The Leonardo da Vinci Experience" opened at Via della Conciliazione in mid-February. But there are also two other permanent “museums” devoted to Leonardo in Rome. They all celebrate the special relationship between the Eternal City and the Italian genius and his innovative inventions.

the worth of women

Arts - 26 Marzo 2017

The Worth of Women: Feminism Started in Renaissance Venice

A sixteenth-century book offers an insight on the issues that the women had to face in Renaissance Venice and still have to face today: violence, betrayal, family care, and inequality. Kairos Italy Theater's "The Worth of Women" takes us to the origins of feminism.

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