Art and Italian in Brisbane

La Barcaccia by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the bottom of the Spanish Step, Rome

Do you have a passion for Italy?


Happy to help you.....just email me!!
albanese.simona@gmail.com

Brisbane Open House

Brisbane's Casino by Simona Albanese

On 2 October in conjunction with World Architecture Day, the Queensland Government and the Brisbane Development Association will initiate a new event: Brisbane Open House.

This event will provide the public a free-of-charge and rare opportunity to discover the often hidden wealth of architectural, engineering and historic buildings nestled around the city and associated program.

For more information on the buildings open on the day have a look to the link below:

Brisbane Open House

This is a wonderful initiative for Brisbane!

Italian Film Festival 2010

La Dolce Vita's flyer

The Italian Film Festival is on its way again in the city of Brisbane....so go and enjoy!!!
Below is the link for the shows:
Italian Film Festival 2010

At the main time I will be in Rome to enjoy .....if you want you can follow me through my blog!!!

Ciao!!!!

Seaworld down the Gold Coast

Enjoying the day down the Gold Coast with my children...

Automobilistica Italiana 2010 on the Gold Coast

An introduction to art history

Moses by Michelangelo in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome

Works of art have traditionally been associated with vivid and abiding experiences and memories. Of the various form of arts, painting are usually the most highly privileged.

Sistine Chapel's ceiling by Michelangelo, Rome

Painting provide useful information by virtue of the events and scenes and people that they illustrate. Paintings preserve former layouts of cities and landscapes, the appearance of long-dead kings and queens and philosophers and artists, the configurations of formers battles and the scenes of terrible disasters.

When we stand in front a painting we expect to perceive something ....to understand the artwork we are looking at. The kind of paintings normally commissioned in the principal urban centers of Europe reflected the existing stratifications of the social world at a time when the main sources of patronage were the church, the state, the aristocracy and the increasingly independent mercantile class of bourgeoisie. 

Artists like Michelangelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci worked for various type of patrons in different city of Italy creating astonishing and impeccable artworks, which will be introduce during the next Term at new Farm State School Community between October 28th and November 11th.

For any information and to enroll to the course just download the form below:

New Farm State School Community Education

If you have any question just drop me a line!!!
Simona

A posting from Florence

Yesterday my dad and my mum have enjoyed the day with some friends in Florence, visiting the Boboli gardens and some other main city sites. These are some of the photos....

my dad