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Shen Yun Performing Arts is bringing its second performance to Austin, Texas, and debuting in Italy on Dec. 27. Taking the audience on a journey through 5,000 years of divine ...
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Being Seen at Pitti Uomo: The Fine and the Dandies Meet in Florence
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This ‘Secret Room’ Where Michelangelo Hid Is Full of Jaw-Dropping Sketches—But Why Did He Hide?
You can visit the safehouse where Michelangelo holed up like a fugitive fearing for his life, in 1530, ...
November 13, 2023
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Michael Wing
The Making of a Renaissance Master: Alonso Berruguete’s Rise to Prominence
In 1504, the young and ambitious Spanish artist Alonso Berruguete arrived in Italy with an aspiration to become ...
May 15, 2023
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James Baresel
Visitors Can See Famed Florence Baptistry’s Mosaics up Close
FLORENCE, Italy—Visitors to one of Florence’s most iconic monuments—the Baptistry of San Giovanni, opposite the city’s Duomo—are getting ...
February 13, 2023
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Trains, Buses, and Automobiles: A Dynamic Family Trip to Northern Italy
It was a moment that none of us will ever forget. When we arrived by train in Tuscany, ...
January 4, 2023
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Tim Johnson
Palazzo Medici Riccardi: The Power and Beauty of the Medici Palace
Once ruled by the powerful Medici family, Florence hosts some of the most beautiful treasures of the Italian ...
December 23, 2022
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Ariane Triebswetter
Finding Our Way in Florence
I'd never seen a bathroom with such a tiny shower in it, and I wasn't quite sure about ...
May 25, 2022
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Lesley Sauls Frederikson
Life of Bramante Da Urbino, Architect
Of very great advantage to architecture, in truth, was the new method of Filippo Brunelleschi, who imitated and ...
April 20, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Fra Bartolommeo Di San Marco, Painter of Florence
Near the territory of Prato, which is ten miles distant from Florence, in a village called Savignano, was ...
April 19, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Raffaello Da Urbino, Painter and Architect
How bountiful and benign Heaven sometimes shows itself in showering upon one single person the infinite riches of ...
April 18, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Leonardo Da Vinci, Painter and Sculptor of Florence
The greatest gifts are often seen, in the course of nature, rained by celestial influences on human creatures; ...
April 15, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Lorenzo Ghiberti, Painter of Florence
There is no doubt that in every city those who, by reason of any talent, come into some ...
April 14, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Donatello, Sculptor of Florence
Donato, who was called Donatello by his relatives and wrote his name thus on some of his works, ...
April 13, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Andrea Del Sarto, a Most Excellent Painter of Florence
At length, after the Lives of many craftsmen who have been excellent, some in colouring, some in drawing, ...
April 11, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Fra Filippo Lippi, Painter of Florence
Fra Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, a Carmelite, was born in Florence in a street called Ardiglione, below the ...
April 11, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Leon Batista Alberti, Architect of Florence
Very great is the advantage bestowed by learning, without exception, on all those craftsmen who take delight in ...
April 10, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
The Life of Filippo Brunelleschi, Sculptor and Architect
Many men are created by nature small in person and in features, who have a mind full of ...
April 8, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Life of Sandro Botticelli, Painter of Florence
At the same time with the elder Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent, which was truly a golden age ...
April 7, 2022
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Giorgio Vasari
Rick Steves’ Europe: The Temple of David
Entering Florence’s Accademia Gallery is like entering the Church of David — a temple of humanism. At the ...
March 9, 2022
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Rick Steves
Serving God, Sculpture by Sculpture
Some 18 years ago, Minnesota-born Cody Swanson arrived in Italy on a two-way ticket as a fresh-faced 18-year-old ...
July 8, 2021
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Lorraine Ferrier
The Medici: Patrons of the Florentine Renaissance
Their artworks are icons of Italy and their names are among the most well-known in the art world: ...
May 26, 2021
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Kara Blakley
How We Learn To Draw
An Interview with New Masters Academy Founder Joshua Jacobo Many of us have been inspired to pick up ...
April 21, 2021
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Sarah Hodges
Antico Setificio Fiorentino
Florence is a city of secrets. As you walk through the ancient streets, large wooden doors open, revealing ...
April 21, 2021
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Amy Florence
Faith and Beauty Meet in Florence’s Cathedral Square
Italy's Florence Cathedral, commonly known as the "Duomo," dominates Florence’s skyline. Located in Cathedral Square, the cathedral complex also ...
October 18, 2020
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Epoch Times Staff
The Brancacci Chapel: Where All Great Artists Went to Study Masaccio’s Frescoes
FLORENCE, Italy—The Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria Carmine in Florence is where you’ll find one of the most ...
January 15, 2020
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