Rome is often referred to as one enormous open air museum. It would seem that around every corner there is something of archaeological or historical interest.
Hendrik Christian Andersen. Born in Bergen in 1872, Anderson lived in the United States before moving to Rome. He left his studio and house,Villa Helène, to the Italian State along with all its contents, artwork, archives, photographic material and a library. While solely made up ...
Italy Welcomes Home Looted Ancient Artworks From the U.S More Reuters Some of the antiquities worth an estimated $19 million are seen after being returned to Italy by New York City, in Rome, Italy, January 23 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli ROME (Reuters) - Italy on Monday celebrated the ...
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The book, curated by the expert on Italian drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries Claire Van Cleave, will trace the history of the collection of drawings once owned by the Farnese family from its origins in Rome to the present day. In its heyday, the collection included over 600...
Renaissance portraiture often had a two-fold function with a built-in insurance policy against the collapse of humanist values. On one hand the ruling classes and prosperous merchants had their portraits painted to display their fame and fortune; on the other, they commissioned donor portraits as ...
Clothing and Fashion in Elizabethan England Renaissance fashion was unique, particularly among the upper classes, who preferred garments made from opulent materials and with dramatic designs. Depending on the country, Renaissance implemented strict sumptuary rules that regulated the clothing choices of indiv...
The museum's collection of marble sculptures and inscriptions was greatly enlarged in the 17th and 18th centuries by gifts from private collections. After Rome became Italy's capital in the 19th century, a great number of artefacts, found whilst digging the foundations for the city's new quarter...
The multidimensionality of the ToM construct is further highlighted by the development of different classes of tasks to measure it. Some are socio-perceptual in nature, capturing, for instance, variability in the capacity to infer mental states from faces (Baron-Cohen et al., 2001). Other, soci...
These smaller works, when commissioned for the wealthier upper classes, might involve ivory carving and chyselephantine works, wood-carving, and terracotta sculpture, sometimes glazed for colour. As Rome turned from cremation to burial at the end of the 1st century CE, stone coffins, known as ...