Since the 1980s, Di Fabio has addressed the relationship between art, science, and the cosmos through a body of work that investigates the natural world and physical phenomena that define it. Moving steadily toward abstraction, and animating the optical, kinetic-at times spiritual-elements that characterize his work, Di Fabio continues to captivate international critics, museums, and [...]
Survey: Your Favorite Souvenir From Rome?
Souvenirs can run the gamut from expensive to cheap, tacky to really cool. But they also take up space in the suitcase. Rome is a place that has wonderful souvenirs – shopping for clothes, art books from the museums, napkins with cafe logos, and then of course, your own photographs. My favorite souvenirs are postcards. [...]
A Road Retraveled: The Pantheon
Part I: Part II: Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who takes us through and around the pagan temple of The Pantheon. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to empower, educate and encourage viewers to travel. Their pathway to education includes focusing on video awareness by producing both [...]
A Road Retraveled: Street Painters in Italy
Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who shows us the Madonnari – street painters in Italy. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to empower, educate and encourage viewers to travel. Their pathway to education includes focusing on video awareness by producing both short and full length travel shows [...]
A Road Retraveled: Walk Like an Egyptian in Italy
Part I: Part II: Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who gives us a taste of Ancient Egypt, pyramids, and obelisks in Rome. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to empower, educate and encourage viewers to travel. Their pathway to education includes focusing on video awareness by producing [...]
Palazzo Barberini
Today’s guest post is an excerpt from 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, by Susan Van Allen
Chasing Caravaggio
Dark. Passionate. Storyteller. Murderer. Artist. Anarchist. Tempestuous. Scandalous. Dangerous. Genius. The mystery of Caravaggio. His models came from the shadows of the streets and appeared out of the shadows of his canvases. Caravaggio was one of the first artists to paint saints, and people of any social level, as they really were, ordinary. Realism was [...]
Gli Musei Vaticani / The Museums of the Vatican
The Vatican is a city within a city and the Vatican Museum is actually many museums within a museum. The original museum began in the Cortile Ottagono as a collection of sculptures gathered by Pope Julius II (the same pope that commissioned the Sistine Chapel ceiling) and you can still see the first sculptures bought [...]
Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Michelangelo Buonorroti did not consider himself to be a painter. He studied the human form in order to create three dimensional works of art as sculpture. His chosen method of communication was through the art of carving stone. But Michelangelo also lived during one of the most creative times in European Art History and when [...]
