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  • Art & Culture

    Gucci’s Capitoline Museums Show Gets Political

    Roberta Cutillo(May 29, 2019)
    Gucci’s highly anticipated Cruise 2020 Fashion Show, held inside Rome’s Capitoline Museums, surprisingly turns into a celebration of freedom and of women’s reproductive rights, featuring pro-choice slogans and imagery throughout the collection.
  • Art & Culture

    Leonardo’s St. Jerome on View in Saint Peter’s Square

    Roberta Cutillo(April 02, 2019)
    Leonardo Da Vinci’s "St. Jerome in the Wilderness" is currently on view in a free exhibition organized by the Vatican Museums at the Braccio di Carlo Magno in St. Peter's Square. The painting is then set to travel across the Atlantic to New York City, to be exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum. Finally, it will (supposedly) be shipped over to Paris to be part of the Louvre’s Blockbuster Da Vinci show, organized in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death.
  • Don Primo Mazzolari (Cremona 1890-Bozzolo 1959)
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    Pope Francis and Don Mazzolari: Ecumenism and the Poor

    Stefano Albertini(June 21, 2017)
    Pope Francis at the tomb of Don Mazzolari, archpriest of Bozzolo, the priest whose books were withdrawn from the Holy Office. The same trip on which he also pays homage to Don Milani, the Prior of Barbiana. An attentive and sincere reflection that connects Pope Francis and the unheard prophet Don Mazzolari. The sensibility of two men coming from the suburbs, who, at different moments in history, knew how to open the windows and doors of the Church to the Spirit that constantly renews and transforms it.
  • Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel will run from June 23-July 23 in NYC
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    Up Close: Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel at the Oculus

    Westfield Corporation will soon recreate the awe and wonder of one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements, while allowing visitors to experience Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel from a different perspective inside the spectacular new Oculus train station in Lower Manhattan.
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    Pope Francis Welcomes Trump to Vatican

    Kayla Pantano(May 24, 2017)
    Two of the West’s most influential leaders, President Donald Trump and Pope Francis, set aside their differences for a private 30-minute meeting on international affairs and the promotion of peace.
  • “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" opens in November at the Met
    Art & Culture

    Michelangelo: The Met Pays Tribute to the Italian Master

    Joelle Grosso(May 11, 2017)
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art is organizing its largest Michelangelo exhibition to date which will run from November 13th through February 12th, 2018. The upcoming show entitled “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" will feature the Renaissance master's drawings, marble sculptures, and much more!
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    New Soccer Stadium for Rome? A Decision Approaches

    Judith Harris(February 22, 2017)
    Whether or not Rome is to have a new soccer stadium is approaching a decsion. The present 54-year-old Olympic Stadium, now home to local rival teams AS Roma and to SS Lazio, comes with serious defects, but construction of the proposed new $1.26 billion stadium faces no less serious obstacles.

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