tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29890093427475702962024-03-13T20:18:32.824+10:00Simona Albanese | Your connection to Italy | SMALL ESCORTED TOURS TO ITALY A brief taste of Italy, travel, Italian and international art, culture and much more...all of this is narrated by Simona, your personal connection to Italy in the heart of BrisbaneSimona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-45974401987545553622014-11-13T19:28:00.000+10:002014-11-13T19:28:53.668+10:00Loving chocolate....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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No many weeks to Christmas....you can find chocolate in many shapes and forms !!!</div>
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Here an example of what I have bought last year during the holiday.....</div>
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I look forward to enjoy some more chocolate soon!</div>
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The term is gone, however there will be a new Italian Cooking course starting in May at New Farm State School. </div>
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The course is limited to 8 people and it runs for three consecutive weeks.</div>
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In classes you cook, you eat and you meet some new friends!</div>
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So....I see you in class!</div>
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Here I'm in class with my students! We are preparing cannelloni and scaloppine!!!<br />
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If you like to cook, here for you a unique Italian cake, the <i>ciambellone. </i></div>
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This is an old traditional cake, usually prepared during the Winter time. Loved by children, but also by adults, the cake is perfect for breakfast or for an afternoon snack. </div>
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Preheat the oven at around 180 C, if not forced. First of all beat the eggs with the sugar until you obtain a nice zabaglione, then add the baking powder, the milk and the oil, and finally the flour and mix until evenly combined. You can either use a whisk, as well as a food processor. YOUR CHOICE!<br />
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Sempre caro mi fu quest'ermo colle,<br />
e questa siepe, che da tanta parte<br />
dell'ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.<br />
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati<br />
spazi di la' da quella, e sovrumani<br />
silenzi, e profondissima quiete<br />
io nel pensier mi fingo: ove per poco<br />
il cor non si spaura. E come il vento<br />
odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello<br />
infinito silenzio a questa voce<br />
vo comparando: e mi sovvien l'eterno,<br />
e le morte stagioni, e la presente<br />
e viva, e il suon di lei. Cosi' tra questa<br />
immensita' s'annega il pensier mio:<br />
e il naufragar m'e' dolce in questo mare.<br />
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WALK AND ENJOY THIS MAGNIFICENT AREA OF LIGURIA</td></tr>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-76079615651497172512013-03-21T23:37:00.000+10:002013-03-30T10:16:49.838+10:00I'm back...teaching Italian and enjoying life, art and good food!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I have been away for sometimes as everyone does during their journey! I'm back in New Farm and I am involved in new different projects!</div>
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If you like to cook and you want to join my cooking classes, I'm offering a course at New Farm State School between May and June. Places are very limited, so be quick!</div>
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In New Farm I also offer several Italian classes between Monday and Tuesday.</div>
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New courses will start Monday April 29th and Tuesday April 30th.</div>
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If you have only a short amount of time and you want to learn quickly some Italian expressions, this course in May is perfect for you! The class will be held every Thursday of the month!<br />
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This is a new initiative with ANFE in Newstead!<br />
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Maybe you prefer to relax, enjoy a coffee and practise your Italian! I can arrange even this for you!<br />
Just send me an email! I will be very happy to assist you in this task!<br />
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I also organise cultural morning! If you are interested in these type of meetings, get in touch!<br />
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AND ARE YOU COMING TO ITALY WITH ME IN SEPTEMBER?<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-62231160296908650832012-03-19T17:30:00.000+10:002012-03-19T17:30:41.791+10:00Time flies: the Auckland Art Gallery!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time flies, moving around as always to make life more interesting!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here a mix of photos from the refurbished <a href="http://www.aucklandartgallery.com/">Auckland Art Gallery</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Between September 23 and October 8, 2011 at the <a href="http://www.contemporaneafestival.it/">Teatro Mestastasio</a> there will be a contemporary program, not only Renaissance art, but something modern and beautiful to admire and enjoy in Tuscany.<br />
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All of this is in Prato, not far from Florence, symbol of the Renaissance art and literature.<br />
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Go and have fun!!<br />
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A presto!<br />
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Simona<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-86419579305346004512011-09-10T16:13:00.004+10:002011-09-11T15:33:50.420+10:00The European Baroque: what's outside Italy?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Despite various wars, the Baroque was the style of the seventeenth-century Europe.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Baroque was passionate, energetic and exciting. Church and palace ceilings were replaced by painted illusions of limitless space, often extravagant and ostentatious, such as the <i>Triumph of Divine Providence </i>for the Palazzo Barberini by Pietro da Cortona.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">The Baroque style took shape in Rome, attracted artists all over Italy, such as collectors and connoisseurs from everywhere, so what was the situation outside Italy?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Come to next series of lectures at New Farm State School during the last term for 2011.</span><br />
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If you have missed all the nice Italian movies in Italy, this is the perfect occasion to go and enjoy an Italian movie and practice your Italian at the main time, so enjoy!!<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-75086865568229708412011-09-10T13:04:00.001+10:002011-09-10T14:53:55.699+10:00Rugby World Cup 2011: Auckland and New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/WPdDthszanE?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A Haka in Auckland!</div><br />
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<a href="http://www.aucklandnz.com/">Auckland</a> is a wonderful city and a fantastic place to live, there are galleries, museums, shopping and much much more....but this year there is the <a href="http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/">Rugby World Cup 2011</a>. It started yesterday in Auckland, the opening ceremony was wonderful and obviously the All Black have won the match against Tonga.<br />
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Tomorrow the Italian team will play vs Wallabies (Australia) in Albany on the North Shore at 3.30pm, New Zealand time! Many matches will be in Auckland, but others around New Zealand, so wherever you are be a supporter.....<br />
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Now for me...which team I should support?<br />
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Simona<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-61819688124206336962011-09-03T22:01:00.037+10:002011-09-03T22:45:02.470+10:00The Macchina di Santa Rosa<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;">Every year Viterbo celebrates this event with a huge manifestation, called La Macchina di Santa Rosa, where a big tower decorated with lights, tall about 30m, is carried around the city by circa 100 strong men. </span></strong></div><div align="justify" class="TestoStandard"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><br />
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In the past this palace belonged to the Davizzi family, wealthy merchants in the late fourteenth century. They constructed the palace, which later was purchased by the Davanzati family in the late sixteenth century.<br />
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This palace brings you back in time, show you the structure of what the modern palaces are going to be, so don't miss this place next time you are in Florence!!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Address: Via Porta Rossa 13 – Firenze – Tel. 055 2388610</span><br />
<div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Hours: Weekdays: 8.15 am – 1.50 pm; open second and fourth Monday of the month.</span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Holidays: 8.15 – 1.50 pm – open first, third and fifth Sunday of the month.</span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Closed on: the second and fourth Sunday of the month; the first, third and fifth Monday of every month. December 25, January 1, May 1</span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A presto!!</span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Simona</span></div><div style="line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com1Palazzo Davanzati, Via Porta Rossa, 13, 50123 Florence, Italy43.7702097 11.252850143.768776200000005 11.2503826 43.7716432 11.2553176tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-63007030404199285742011-09-02T12:26:00.003+10:002011-09-02T16:02:58.159+10:00Questioning Pietro da Cortona in the Johnston Collection?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-81UhMt6fyyU/TmA6j8PURbI/AAAAAAAABm4/gCZlS3ig7NY/s1600/Johnston+house" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="299" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-81UhMt6fyyU/TmA6j8PURbI/AAAAAAAABm4/gCZlS3ig7NY/s400/Johnston+house" width="400" /></a><b><a href="http://www.johnstoncollection.org/">The Johnston Collection</a> is a secret place in the east side of Melbourne.</b><br />
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<b>If you decide to visit this place in order to prevent disturbing the neighborhood, a tour parties come to collect you at a Melbourne hotel and you are transported to the house where the Collection is on show, in a bus that belongs to the Johnston Collection.</b><br />
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<b>The Collection is the work of one man, William Johnston, who died in 1986, leaving everything to a Trust, who delegate professional staff looking after the Collection.</b><br />
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<i>Presentation of Christ Child </i>, 1635<br />
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</b></div><b>The Collection is made up of paintings, antiques, curiosities and several different pieces that represent the various passions of this man, who loved beautiful things ad collected them.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Between these works there is a painting, subject of my lecture in late May and now an article recently published on <a href="http://www.worldaa.com/">The World of Antiques & Art</a> (Issue 81). </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>In the past this work was attributed to Pietro da Cortona, but I have my doubts! </b></span><br />
<b>So if you want to know more, get the magazine and go on page 84.</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Note: If you like Pietro da Cortona and you want to see some of his most famous ceiling works, go to visit </span><a href="http://simonaalbanese.blogspot.com/2010/03/triumph-of-divine-providence-by-pietro.html">Palazzo Barberini</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">in Rome and </span><a href="http://www.uffizi.com/palazzo-pitti-florence.asp">Palazzo Pitti</a> in Florence.</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Buona lettura!!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>A presto!</b></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-29993576111883716662011-09-01T14:19:00.000+10:002011-09-01T14:19:53.597+10:00Renaissance at the National Gallery of Australia<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Bambina della Famiglia Redetti</i>, 1566-70<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Next December a new exhibition will be on display at the <a href="http://nga.gov.au/Renaissance/">National Gallery of Australia</a>: "Renaissance: Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, Bellini". </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The works of these artists and other eminent artists executed by Italian artists between the 15th and 16th century will come to Australia for the first time.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>These works, now part of the collection of the Accademia Carra, where once own by the merchant and collector Giacomo Carrara, who died in 1796. Until recently the collection was looked after by a Trust, to then pass under the jurisdiction of the city of Bergamo, that amplified the collection, thanks to gifts and donations of other private collectors.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Today in the Collection is possible to count more than 1,800 artworks, including masterworks by Giovanni Bellini, Titian, Botticelli and Raphael.</b></span><br />
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<i>Madonna with Child</i>, 1510</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff7d6;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span></span></span></span><b> Due to restructuring/maintenance of the <a href="http://www.accademiacarrara.bergamo.it/">Accademia Carrara</a>, around seventy artworks will be borrowed by the National Gallery of Australia and they will be on display for the first time on the Australian sole. </b><br />
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<b>This occasion will be a wonderful opportunity for art lovers, researchers and public, who will see with their own eyes works that hardly leave Italy due their fragility, value and conservation concern. </b><br />
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<b>Between the many works, there will also be the "Madonna and Child" by Titian, which will travel so far to come to Australia in December for about 4 months. </b><br />
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<b>Don't miss this occasion... go and enjoy this event! </b><br />
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</span></span>A presto!!<br />
Simona<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-1588326350282269442011-08-23T14:28:00.001+10:002011-08-23T14:32:08.603+10:00Another Italian masterpiece at the National Gallery of Victoria<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This year the <a href="http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/">National Gallery of Victoria</a> celebrates its 150th anniversary. What a magnificent present for all the art lovers... another wonderful Italian masterpiece has been added to the collection...that is fantastic!!<br />
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I will certainly take the time to go and have a look to this work!<br />
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Regarded as one of the prominent artists of the High Renaissance together with Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael, Correggio is well re-known for the fresco ceiling he decorated in Parma, such as the <i>Assumption of the Virgin</i> for the Cathedral.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Assumption of the Virgin</i> by Correggio</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">This work was clearly a catalyst and inspirational example for the <i>sotto in su</i> technique later used by the painters of the Baroque period, such as Lanfranco's <i>Assumption</i> in Santa Andrea della Valle in Rome.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Correggio was a precursor and innovative artist, an example for many other artists, so well done Melbourne!</div><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">A presto!</div></div><br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-5550402186198927932011-08-19T11:07:00.000+10:002011-08-19T11:07:18.962+10:00Vicolo del Cedro<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XEfmsqhfSlY/Tk2ueXfLYQI/AAAAAAAABmk/jm0Kn5CTEKg/s1600/rome+004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XEfmsqhfSlY/Tk2ueXfLYQI/AAAAAAAABmk/jm0Kn5CTEKg/s640/rome+004.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the heart of Trastevere, Rione XIII, not far from Santa Maria in Trastevere.</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">on Vicolo del Cedro</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From Vicolo del Cedro you can easily reach the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janiculum">Janiculum</a> Hill, the steps are a short cut and I like to walk along there with my son, who loves to stop and drink in one of the old Roman public "fontanelle"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So maybe next time you are in Rome, take a short cut and have a look around the back streets of Trastevere!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="testo" style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;">Each year on the night of August 10th, Italians turn their eyes towards the sky hoping to spot a shooting star. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;"><span class="testo"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">This night is, in fact, since ever, dedicated to the martyrdom of San Lorenzo, who is buried since the third century in the homonymous basilica in Rome. The shooting stars represent the tears poured by the saint while dying on August 10th - it seems all those tears wander around the sky all the year, until when on this night, shooting stars appear creating a magic and fantastic </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">atmosphere</span></span><span class="testo"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">. </span><br />
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<span class="testo"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;">On this night, in fact, it seems that all your dreams come true, if you spot a shooting star and recite the nursery rhyme "Stella, mia bella stella, desidero che.." (Star, my beautiful star, I wish).....<br />
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<span class="testo"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;">So, if you didn't know that, this is something to celebrate next year....</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="testo"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;">Today was even my son Lorenzo "onomastico" - saint.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="testo"><span style="color: lime; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Tanti auguri amore di mamma!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">!</span></span></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="testo"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: inherit;">A presto!</span> </span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds2.feedburner.com/simonaalbanese</div>Simona Albanesehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18324197215437256286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2989009342747570296.post-83537390851863146372011-08-08T11:20:00.000+10:002011-08-08T11:20:53.190+10:00Pietro da Cortona: the Rape of the Sabine Women<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><b style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Rape of the Sabine Women</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />1627-29<br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Oil on canvas, 280,5 x 426 cm<br style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome</span><br />
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</tbody></table>Pietro da Cortona again!!! The subject of my Master thesis when I was still in Auckland.<br />
The <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rape_of_the_Sabine_Women">Rape of the Sabine Women</a></i> is a subject well known and practiced by many artists, included Pietro da Cortona, who received the commission by the Sacchetti family. This painting, today in the <a href="http://en.museicapitolini.org/percorsi/percorsi_per_sale/pinacoteca_capitolina">Pinacoteca Capitolina</a>, was executed by the artist before the <i><a href="http://simonaalbanese.blogspot.com/2010/03/triumph-of-divine-providence-by-pietro.html">Triumph of Divine Providence</a></i> for the Barberini Family in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.<br />
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If you have occasion to visit Rome, don't forget to stop and admire this artwork in the Pinacoteca Capitolina at the top of the <a href="http://simonaalbanese.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-is-original-marcus-aurelius.html">Campidoglio</a>!<br />
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What a beautiful thing...going to Rome and see the Forum, walking along the old Roman ruins with some friends or by your own. Why not enjoy this especially when the season is so warm?<br />
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So if you are planning your holiday in September or October learn some intensive Italian in the next few weeks in Brisbane.<br />
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<div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b>It is the work which for excellence represent the good life, the passion for beautiful things and the joy for life!!! The <i>Banquet of Cleopatra</i> by Tiepolo at the National Gallery of Victoria is there for everyone....so next time you are in Melbourne go, enjoy and admire this work, as many other beautiful artworks in the gallery!!</b></span></span></div><div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br />
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