"the Bargello Museum in Florence, there does exist documentation that a Hungarian connection is possible. For one thing, the Bargello Museum inventory identifies the chairs in its inventory as ""17th century with backs and seats done in ""punto unghero"" (Hungarian Point)."" (Williams, 1967:5). In the 18th century, Queen Maria Teresa of Hungary stitched Bargello and her work has been preserved in the Hungarian National Museum Petschek (1997:7) also cites additional ""legends"" of Hungarian noblewomen practicing the craft, including a Hungarian princess marrying into the de Medici family, and a princess Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Hungary who married into the Jagiełło dynasty"
"des médailles, Paris, the Hermitage Museum, the Ashmolean in Oxford, and a number of German museums, although the outstanding Berlin collection was lost in World War II. Not much of the British Museum's important collection is on display, nor that of the Vatican Museums. The Bargello in Florence has some 400 plaquettes, about half from the collection of the Medici family, who played an important role in the development of the form. Most of the rest are from the collection of Louis Carrand, who bequeathed it to Florence. After that of Drefus, this is the next most important collection assembled"
"Turin are, perhaps, the best such collections in the world. The classical age is not the only age represented in Italy's museums. The Italian Renaissance is well represented in a number of museums: the Uffizi Gallery, Bargello Museum, and Palazzo Pitti are all located in Florence. Many of these museums, are the former palaces of kings or the houses of royal families. In 1986, the first internet connection in Italy was experimented in Pisa, the third in Europe after Norway and England. Already in the late 1970s, Pisan researchers, firstly with Luciano Lenzini, were in contact with U.S. researchers who"
"the Bargello and the Museum of the Works of the Duomo. They are filled with the creations of Donatello, Verrochio, Desiderio da Settignano, Michelangelo and others. The Galleria dell'Accademia has Michelangelo's David – perhaps the best-known work of art anywhere, plus the unfinished statues of the slaves Michelangelo created for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Other sights include the medieval city hall, the Palazzo della Signoria (also known as the Palazzo Vecchio), the Archeological Museum, the Museum of the History of Science, the Garden of Archimedes, the Palazzo Davanzatti, the Stibbert Museum, St. Marks, the Medici Chapels, the Museum"
"numerous Italian museums (Museo Nazionale del Bargello (Bargello Museum), Galleria Palatina, Parchi della Val di Cornia (Val di Cornia Parks), Museo del tessuto (Textile Museum) in Prato, Palazzo Martinengo Cesaresco Novarino in Brescia, Museo della ceramica(Ceramics Museum) of Montelupo Fiorentino, Museo archeologico di Montelupo (Archaeological Museum), Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Modern Art Centre) of Prato, Museo della Vite e del Vino di Montespertoli (Wine and wine-growing Museum), Museo di arte sacra (Sacred Art Museum) (Montespertoli), Palazzo Ducale (Sassuolo), Cenacolo di Andrea del Sarto (Last Supper). Since 2009, together with Paolo Biondi, and under the direction of Antonio Paolucci,"
"and England. In 1853 Barlow was in Germany, prosecuting his favourite studies; in the autumn of 1854 in the south of France; in 1856 in Denmark and Sweden; and, revisiting Edinburgh in 1857, was attracted to Manchester by the Art Treasures' Exhibition of that year. In the celebration of the sixth centenary of Dante's birth (14–16 May 1865), at Florence, Barlow took a prominent part. Barlow was also present for a time at the festival which took place at Ravenna on 24–26 June following, in consequence of the recent discovery there of the bones of Dante. Before the first of"
"Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Bologna The Palazzo Davìa Bargellini is a Baroque style palace located on Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, Italy. It presently hosts the Civic Museum of Industrial art and Davìa Bargellini Gallery, which is an eclectic collection of paintings as well as applied arts and functional ornamentation, described as ""curiosities of the old Bologna"". The diverse applied art collection includes ceramics, liturgical robes, keys, ornamental door knobs, marionettes from street theaters, furniture, iron grille work, elaborately carved wooden frame, and a gilded carriage. Construction of the palace was commissioned in 1638 by Camillo Bargellini of a Bolognese Senatorial"
"was exhibited throughout Europe, commonly winning awards. He was named cavaliere dell' Order of Leopold II of Belgium, honorary professor of the Istituto Reale di Belle Arti in Naples, and honorary academician at the Istituto di Belle Arti di Bologna. Among his students was Argentinian sculptor Lola Mora. The ""Costantino Barbella"" Museum of Art, is located in the Palazzo Martinetti Bianchi in Chieti. Costantino Barbella Costantino Barbella (Chieti, January 31, 1853 – December 5, 1925) was an Italian sculptor, known as ""il Michetti della scultura"". He began his career by modeling terracotta figurines for churches and Nativity Scenes (Presepe). In"
"frescoes commissioned by Jakob Salomon Bartholdy from several of the German Nazarene circle of painters from Casa Bartholdy, Rome, which had been purchased by Berlin, in 1886–87. His esthetic, barely distinguishable restoration of Simone Martini's ""Saint Catherine of Alexandria"", now in the National Gallery of Canada, has been examined as an outstanding example of the seamless restorations that his generation preferred. Many well-known works of Renaissance art bear a Bardini provenience. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, has some twenty works that passed through his hands, notably the Benedetto da Maiano ""Madonna and Child"", the Bernardo Daddi ""Saint Paul"""
"Gregorio facing piazza dei Mozzi in the Oltrarno and set about transforming it into his opulent residence and restoration studio, Palazzo Bardini, now housing the Museo Bardini, with his collections of paintings, sculpture, most notably a marble ""Charity"" by Tino da Camaino, 15th- and 16th-century Italian furniture, ceramics, tapestry, arms; stringed and keyboard musical instruments, including one of only two surviving oval spinets by Bartolomeo Cristofori; Roman and Etruscan antiquities and 15th- and 16th-century architectural fittings, including paneled and painted ceilings, chimneypieces and door surrounds. His example inspired his most successful protégé, Elia Volpi, to purchase and freely restore Palazzo"
"and President of Artisans of Barga. Principal works of Antonio Nardini: Nardini has received several acknowledgements including: Antonio Nardini Antonio Nardini (Barga, Italy, 7 February 1922) is an Italian historian and author. Nardini was an Italian Alpini officer during the Second World War. Nardini worked as a researcher, founder and president of the Group ""Ricerche storiche archeologiche"" and was Director of the local section of Istituto Storico Lucchese. Nardini helped organize photographic exhibitions about the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1985) and about Italian colonial wars (1986). Nardini is a member and historic consultant of the magazine «L’ora di Barga» and"
"Palma Museum. Initially the Avant-garde, Art Brut and American abstract Expressionism (e.g. Pollock had a big impact on him) influenced Barceló's work, on the other hand he was always particularly interested in the Baroque paintings of Diego Velázquez, Tintoretto and Rembrandt. Jean Dubuffet inspired Barceló in adopting an experimental attitude. Throughout the 1980s, he travelled extensively across Europe, the United States and West Africa – always returning to Paris which became a second home and where he set up a second studio. The time Barceló spent in different countries, his nomadism or peripatetic habits essentially influenced and inspired his work,"
"Baroque cities build after the catastrophic earthquake of 1693. Sardinia is a large island some 250 kilometers west of the Italian coastline. It includes several popular tourist attractions and has several beaches and archaeological ruins. It's also known for its beautiful beaches,that are one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. The most popular cities in Sardinia,are: Cagliari,Sassari,Alghero,Olbia and Porto Cervo. Porto Cervo,located in (Costa Smeralda),it's one of the richest and most expansive tourist destination in Sardinia and in Italy. Italy has some of the world's most ancient tourist resorts, dating back to the time of the Roman Republic,"
"(1792–1872), it likely previously belonged to the Pepoli family. Palazzo Davia Bargellini, Bologna The Palazzo Davìa Bargellini is a Baroque style palace located on Strada Maggiore in central Bologna, Italy. It presently hosts the Civic Museum of Industrial art and Davìa Bargellini Gallery, which is an eclectic collection of paintings as well as applied arts and functional ornamentation, described as ""curiosities of the old Bologna"". The diverse applied art collection includes ceramics, liturgical robes, keys, ornamental door knobs, marionettes from street theaters, furniture, iron grille work, elaborately carved wooden frame, and a gilded carriage. Construction of the palace was commissioned"
"Institute of British Architects; Reports of the Smithsonian Institution; Revue de L’Art Chretien; Brooklyn Institute Bulletin; and in a Brooklyn Museum publication series, Memoirs of Art and Archaeology. Summary of Survey Expeditions: 1895 Italy (circa May – October). Included visits to Ancona, Arezzo, Assisi, Bari, Bologna, Borgo San Donnino, Chiusi, Cremona, Ferrara, Fiesole, Florence, Foligno, Genoa, Girgenti, Lucca, Milan, Modena, Naples, Orvieto, Padua, Paestum, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Piazcenza, Pisa, Pompeii, Ravello, Ravenna, Rimini, Rome, Ruvo, Santa Maria del Giudice, Selinus, Siena, Toscanella, Trani, Troja, Venice, Verona, Vetralla, Vicenza, Viterbo, Volterra. Sites visited included San Nicola, Bari; Troja Cathedral; San Paolo"
"Antonio Nardini Antonio Nardini (Barga, Italy, 7 February 1922) is an Italian historian and author. Nardini was an Italian Alpini officer during the Second World War. Nardini worked as a researcher, founder and president of the Group ""Ricerche storiche archeologiche"" and was Director of the local section of Istituto Storico Lucchese. Nardini helped organize photographic exhibitions about the Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli (1985) and about Italian colonial wars (1986). Nardini is a member and historic consultant of the magazine «L’ora di Barga» and has covered various public and administrative officials, such as Counsellor of the Ospedale San Francesco di Barga"
"home to one of Italy's 19th century poet Giovanni Pascoli. In 2008 Barga became the first medieval historic centre in Italy to be mapped and equipped with QR codes (2D barcodes) for all of the churches, palazzo's statues, restaurants, bars and places of interest. After a two-year trial, the project was released to the public in Dec 2010 under the name iBarga. Visitors can now get precise up to date information about the city on their mobile telephones and in 10 different languages The British writer Len Deighton wrote his novel ""SS-GB"" at a rented hut on the outskirts of"
"the Bargello, the statue was included in the collection of Florentine sculpture gathered in the museum. It was returned to the Palazzo Vecchio on 6 November 1921, now placed in a niche in the modern center of the back wall of the room, where, since the time Florence had been the capital of Italy (1865), the 19th-century statue of Savonarola had stood (now in Piazza Savonarola). Only in recent years has the ""Victory"" been restored to its former position along the right wall. The dating and attribution of the statue to the project of the tomb are based on stylistic"
"in Warsaw, Studio Gallery in Warsaw, Galeria Arsenał in Bialystok, District Museum Leon Wyczółkowski in Bydgoszcz, collections of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Lublin, Łódź and Wrocław, the Foksal Gallery collection, in Warsaw, the Poster Museum in Wilanów, PKO Bank Polski in Warsaw, the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, and in MAAM in Rome, Foundation Giorgio Franchetti in Rome, Foundation Federico Fellini in Rimini, Foundation Morra in Naples, Foundation Orestiadi in Gibellina in Sicily, Foundation Mario Schifano in Rome, Targetti Light Art Collection in Florence, International Art Collection in Certosa di Padulla , Italy, Leube"
"Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, the Museo di Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and the Museo di Roma. There are various wax reliefs and sculptures by Cafà in Malta: the Valletta Museum has sketches of martyrs, and models for the statues in the colonnade in Saint Peter's Square in Rome. And four reliefs were recently discovered in the Cathedral of Mdina representing the Nativity, the Adoration of the shepherds, the Annunciation and the Glory of St. Rose of Lima. Most unfinished works were completed by Ercole"
"halls and festivals: Teater Endla of Pärnu,Draamateater of Tallinn,Vanemuine of Tartu, Spazio Teatro 89 of Milano, Teatro Alfieri of Torino, Teatro Garau of Oristano, Teatro of Varese, Teatro Civico of La Spezia, Auditorium Verdi of Milano,Teatro Smeraldo of Milano, Teatro Lirico of Magenta,Teatro Sociale of Rovigo, Palabassano, Teatro Verdi of Padova, Teatro Sociale of Vicenza, Teatro Sociale of Brescia, Teatro Sociale of Busto Arsizio,Teatro Coccia of Novara,Teatro Manzoni of Monza,Sala Verdi of Conservatory of Milano, Teatro Opéra Garnier of Montecarlo, Teatro Goldoni of Livorno, Teatro Verdi of Pisa, Teatro del Giglio of Lucca, Museum of Teatro alla Scala, Hall Bösendorfer"
"MAGI '900- Museum of Artistic and Historical Excellence The museum of artistic and historical excellence, also known as the Museum of Art of the Italian Generations and MAGI '900, is a private museum located in Pieve di Cento. The museum is culled from an idea of the entrepreneur Giulio Bargellini and is characterized by a ""generational"" subdivision of the works exhibited. The building hosting the museum is a silo for the storage of wheat built in 1933, with a total area of 4,000 m² distributed over six floors. The building, now in disuse, was purchased by Bargellini who in collaboration"
"and Santa Maria Novella, both of which charge for entry. Tickets for The Uffizi and Accademia can be purchased online prior to visiting. In 2010, readers of ""Travel + Leisure"" magazine ranked the city as their third favourite tourist destination. In 2015, Condé Nast Travel readers voted Florence as the best city in Europe. Studies by Euromonitor International have concluded that cultural and history-oriented tourism is generating significantly increased spending throughout Europe. Florence is believed to have the greatest concentration of art (in proportion to its size) in the world. Thus, cultural tourism is particularly strong, with world-renowned museums such"
"in a room in the Palazzo Vecchio. The marble bust of a lady with a bunch of flowers (""Dama col mazzolino"") in the Bargello at Florence is probably from the later 1470s. The identity of the lady is unknown. The relief for the funerary monument of Francesca Tornabuoni for Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome is also now in the Bargello at Florence. In 1475 the Condottiero Colleoni, a former Captain General of the Republic of Venice, died and by his will left a substantial part of his estate to the Republic on condition that a statue of himself should"
"in many Italian and international cities including Beijing, Dortmund, Dublin, Kharkov, Leeds, London, Munich, Monte Carlo, Pretoria, Sydney, Taipei, Trieste and Venice. It also visited more than fifty countries on the five continents. Marcello Abbado Marcello Abbado (born 7 October 1926, Milan) is an Italian composer and pianist. His compositional output includes several orchestral works, two ballets, numerous pieces for solo piano, and a number of chamber works. In 1989 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Meritorious Culture and Art (Medaglia d'oro ai benemeriti della cultura e dell'arte) by the Government of Italy. Born in a famous family of"
"August 1837. After a time he moved to Paris, where he worked on medical and scientific studies, but also on art criticism. From Paris in 1840, he travelled to Belgium, the River Rhine, and Holland. In the course of these and other journeys, Barlow filled sketch-books and journals with drawings and descriptions, and a cabinet with geological specimens. He returned home to study Italian, and in the spring of 1841 again went to the continent. He spent the summer in Switzerland, in the autumn crossed the St. Gothard Pass to Milan, and remained in Italy nearly five years. It was"
"empty exterior niches of the Uffizi. Lorenzo Bartolini Lorenzo Bartolini (Prato, 7 January 1777 Florence, 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renaissance rather than the overpowering influence of Antonio Canova that circumscribed his Florentine contemporaries. Bartolini was born in Savignano di Prato, near Prato, Tuscany. After studying at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, honing his skills and reputation as a modeller in alabaster, he went in 1797 to Paris, where he studied painting under Frédéric"
"of cultural assets). Guido Marzulli Guido Marzulli is a figurative Italian painter . Guido Marzulli was born in Bari, July 8, 1943. His father – Michele Marzulli, who was also a poet and writer – and his mother Rosa Tosches were skilled painters. He began his artistic activity in Bari, where he spent his adolescence and attended various meetings and debates with most important scholars and Italian painters, used to be part of the literary and artistic salon established in his parent home during the 1960s. Also in Bari he finished his university studies and completed a degree in Economics."
"the artists hired and materials used (especially bronze) indicate the importance that was placed on this site. Today, all of the original sculptures have been removed and replaced with modern duplicates to protect them from the elements and vandalism. The originals mainly reside in the museum of Orsanmichele, which occupies the upper floor of the church, and can be seen on every Monday, the only day when the museum is open. Two works by Donatello are in other Florentine museums: ""St. George"" and its niche are in the Bargello, and ""St. Louis of Toulouse"" is in the museum of the"
"European network of city history museums and research centers on urban history (since 2010). The Barcelona City History Museum (MUHBA) has several heritage sites spread all around the city. Most of them are archaeological sites displaying remains of the ancient Roman city, called ""Barcino"". Others refer to medieval times and the rest cover the contemporary city, including old industrial buildings and sites related to Gaudí and the Spanish Civil War. Barcelona City History Museum The Barcelona City History Museum (Catalan: ""Museu d'Història de Barcelona"", Spanish: ""Museo de Historia de Barcelona"", acronym MUHBA) is a city museum that conserves, researches, communicates"
"Fuge ûber B.A.C.H. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8sO61nzKd8 Liszt: Chasse-neige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl2Uio1JXRg Liszt: Berceuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo6eWtWCl6A Schumann: Variations Pathétiques (excerpts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGU1sn-p0TU Kurtág: Játékok / Schumann: 4 unpublished compositions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfmuBVOD8E4 Busoni: Turandots Frauengemach; Die Nâchtlichen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32JVMeB6Tg Klaus Huber: Ein Hauch von Unzeit II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugh61TPZt_E George Crumb: Processional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAuPDPFaeRA Gregorio Nardi Gregorio Nardi (born February 3, 1964 in Florence) is an Italian pianist and musicologist. Gregorio Nardi was born into a family of musicians and writers. He lives and works in the studio in Florence, who belonged to his maternal grandfather Piero Bargellini, mayor of the town in 1966-67, which became Casa della Memoria (Memorial House), and it"
"scar left by the bar of the printing press. The ""Museo Bodoniano"" was opened in Parma, Italy in 1963. The entrance is shared with the Biblioteca Palatina, both housed within the museum and theater complex of the Palazzo della Pilotta. Giambattista Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni (; 16 February 1740 in Saluzzo – 30 November 1813 in Parma) was an Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher in Parma. He first took the type-designs of Pierre Simon Fournier as his exemplars, but afterwards became an admirer of the more modelled types of John Baskerville; and he and Firmin Didot evolved a style"
"The third storey, which can be identified by the smaller blocks used to construct it, was added after the fire of 1323. The building is designed around an open courtyard with an external staircase leading to the second floor. An open well is found in the centre of the courtyard. The Bargello opened as a national museum (""Museo Nazionale del Bargello"") in 1865, displaying the largest Italian collection of gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14–17th century). The museum houses masterpieces by Michelangelo, such as his ""Bacchus"", ""Pitti Tondo"" (or ""Madonna and Child""), ""Brutus"" and ""David-Apollo"". Its collection includes Donatello's ""David"" and"