Articles in art history
Yesterday I was at the launch of Arte.it, the first semantic search engine dedicated to a very important theme (to me at least): Italian art. The product, launched by Rome-based internet editor Nexta, was presented …
I’m very lucky to host this guest post from Agnes Crawford, an architectural historian who offers intelligent tours of Rome (my words – not hers!). I remember being dazzled by the mosaics at Santa Prassede …
Florence, November 5th at 6:30pm: an invitation to the presentation of Philippe Starck’s lastest design for Kartell – the Masters Chair. A new object of desire? I may have to sit on it to find …
If Naples is “Italy’s most misunderstood city,” I have to wonder why. And in my case, I felt the need to understand it better. By going there. But before boarding the train, I read everything …
It’s high time I write something about the Laurentian Library as this post has been in my drafts folder for over a year! Perhaps it has remained there because Mannerist architecture is not exactly an …
We just installed our new Frizzi, a ceiling lamp made in Italy by Nemo and designed by Karim Rashid in 2005. It’s our first real design object in the house, if you don’t count designers …
There’s a new trend in looking at art, and I approve fully. It’s SLOW ART – like slow food, slow travel… The idea is that if you look at a single work of art for …
I don’t normally write reactionary pieces, but this bit of news has me frothing at the mouth. This Prof. Vito Franco from the pathology department in Palermo has taken to diagnosing illnesses in famous Renaissance …
At a conference on the use of internet by libraries, archives and museums that I attended the other day (live blog here), Elena Farinelli brought up an interesting fact: if you search “Biblioteca Firenze” on …
Folks! my comprehensive book review of Jane Fortune’s “Invisible Women” is now online and in the paper! Read the article in The Florentine and see below to win your own copy!
Short summary: Invisible Women is …
People seem really busy right now, so I have decided to extend the contest deadline:
The extended writing contest deadline is September 27 2009.
It’s not hard to write a short “post” – don’t be shy! You do not …
Pat Byrne of Kids Europe’s Italy Discovery Journal is not a guidebook to Florence, Rome, and Venice. It’s an activity book dedicated to children traveling in all of Italy (with some focus on the major …
