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Vitorchiano immersed in peperino stone

The name of Vitorchiano is tied in a visceral way with peperino stone and its profile melds with the surrounding landscape and with this rock. The city lies on a peperino bank, fractured into huge boulders, with steep sheer slopes surrounded by two trenches that converge on the Vezza river. Read more…

By Chiara Rufino, 2 years ago
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Learning by Art and learning by Heart – leaves carved from their wood

The classification of plants goes back to Aristotle and the Greeks and the early herbal texts with the first systematic collections of leaves started in about 1500 AD. These prints and paintings are important works, preserved in libraries or museums and rarely exposed for appreciation as works of art, but Read more…

By Gavin Tulloch, 3 years3 years ago
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Sensual Goblets in Murano glass by Massimiliano Caldarone

Images of sensual women nestle within the soft curves of glass that forms almost ‘cages’ in which the female figure is enhanced but becomes unreachable. This is the Massimiliano Caldarone universe and the line of sensual goblets that he launched at the former Church of Santa Chiara Murano  as the glass Read more…

By Claudia Bettiol, 3 years11 months ago
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Apostol – sculpture of the exquisite

Plaka, the rock shelf lying at the bottom of the Acropolis holds most of the human and mythological joys of Athens, and here we found Apostol. Strolling towards the restaurants of Plaka from Monastiraki Square, escaping the early onset of the evening bongo drums, the feeling of being in a Read more…

By Gavin Tulloch, 3 years11 months ago
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