You chose: leonardo da vinci

  • Op-Eds

    Michelangelo and Food for Thought

    Judith Harris(June 10, 2015)
    After the Japanese, Italians live longer than citizens anywhere in the world, according to a UN report released last month. A crucial reason is the Italian diet, with its roots in the past, which includes farmland owned by Michelangelo. Statistics show, moreover, that Italian food and wine exports earned the nation over $30 billion in 2014, or almost one-third more than just five years before.
  • Art & Culture

    Massimiliano Finazzer Flory: Bringing Leonardo to Life

    Natasha Lardera(May 07, 2015)
    "Being Leonardo da Vinci," written by and starring Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, depicts the Renaissance Man in all his glory as he is interviewed by a modern day journalist. The format is rather unique: old Leonardo sits across a reporter who asks him about anything, partly in English, partly in Renaissance Italian and partly in dance.
  • Art & Culture

    Once Lost Leonardo da Vinci Work, Now Found Prior to Being Sold

    Cristina Esmiol(February 11, 2015)
    One of Leonardo da Vinci’s priceless masterpieces of a Renaissance noblewoman, lost for centuries, found in 2013, then lost once more until being rediscovered this summer. Finally Italian and Swiss police were able to reclaim the lost painting upon discovering of “advanced stage” negotiations to sell it.
  • Art & Culture

    Raphael's The Madonna of Foligno Travels Back

    Natasha Lardera(January 30, 2014)
    Eni & Art: Bringing Classic Masterpieces to the Crowds. Italy's leading multinational oil and gas company, has worked hard to bring art to a wider public: the formula was first developed in 2008 as an opportunity for dialogue and exchange, with the main objective of exhibiting a single work and offering space for new interpretations. Now, after two centuries, Raphael's The Madonna of Foligno travels back to Foligno itself
  • Art & Culture

    Caprotti: One Painting, Two Artists, Centuries of Mystery

    Natasha Lardera(November 27, 2013)
    A new mystery regarding Leonardo Da Vinci and his alleged lover Caprotti/Salai. A mogul and the enticing portrait of the Christ. His gaze matches the gaze of the Mona Lisa. The Caprotti Caprotti, A Study of a Painter who Never Was, is a rousing new book written by Maurizio Zecchini, published by Marsilio Editori, that raises thrilling questions and intrigue surrounding the genius of Leonardo
  • Art & Culture

    Leonardo: A Genius in New York

    Giulia Madron(October 25, 2013)
    The Morgan Library opened today a wonderful exhibition featuring some of the works of one of the geniuses of Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci. The show includes pieces selected from the amazing collection of the Biblioteca Reale of Turin. Among the works, the famous "Codex on the Flight of Birds" and "Head of a Young Woman"
  • Art & Culture

    Da Vinci’s Codex on the Flight of Birds Flies to The Smithsonian’s

    N.L.(September 13, 2013)
    The Codex, an early form of a personal notebook, will be on view in a specially designed and secured case located in “The Wright Brothers & The Invention of the Aerial Age. The extraordinary document, created ca. 1505, shows da Vinci’s interest in human flight by exploring bird flight and behavior. From Sept. 13 until Oct. 22
  • Facts & Stories

    Honoring the cultural heritage

    Judith Harris(August 21, 2012)
    Just when UNESCO recognized five more Italian sites as part of the world's cultural heritage, Florentine Mayor Matteo Renzi decided to block engineer Maurizio Seracini's search for the Leonardo Da Vinci's fresco of the Battaglia di Anghiari believed to exist on a wall in the city's town hall.

Pages