Tiziano’s mature sensitiveness in an exhibition in Venice

The city of Venice dedicates an exhibition to one of the artists that mostly made Venice one of the world art capital, Tiziano.

The exhibition’s name is The last Tiziano and the sensuality of his painting and it will be housed in the Venice Accademy Galleries until next 20th April.

The title symbolizes the exhibition itself, because it is dedicated to Tiziano’s last artworks, about 28 masterpieces painted between 1550 and 1576, year of his death, which come from the greatest museums in Europe.

Tiziano’s last artworks are characterized by the creation and development of a curious tecnique called “pittura a macchia” (spotted painting), which has always been the object of international study and research. Tiziano has a his own style, easily recognizable, characterized by quick and sometimes inaccurate marks, with no drafts, which makes figures real and alive, and together with subjects sensuality makes unique these artworks. (more…)

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In Venice the 52nd International Biennale of Contemporary Art

Is taking place until the 21st of November the 52nd International Biennale od Contemporary Art of Venice.

The Venice Biennale of Art is an exposition dedicated to showing works of contemporary art, both Italian and international, some of which created by the artists exclusively for their participation to the event.

This year the exposition is entitled “Pensa con i sensi, Senti con la mente” and it will have many locations distributed among the Corderie, Artiglierie dell’Arsenale and the Padiglione Italia on Giardini.

The artistic director of this 52nd edition of the exibition wants to reproduce the traditional formula on which the event is based: internationality.
In fact, the foreign countries that participate to the Biannual every year are numerous (about 76), providing visitors the possibility of seeing the best creations of the worldly artistic scenary.

Besides the exibition, 34 collateral events such as conventions, meetings, laboratories and artistical projects have been instituted, and they will take place in the historical centre of the city, giving the possibility to all the visitors, expert ones or simply curious ones, of coming into contact with realities and creations from every side of the world.More… (more…)

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About Venice: your tourist guide in Venice, Italy

Now aboutvenice.org is online, another site of About Italy network, that from many years dedicates to the publication of no commercial sites and portals of touristic guides.

Aboutvenice.org is a site completely dedicated to the “Serenissima”, that gives you a full idea of what is the city of Venice, one of the most beautiful cities of Italy.

Venice is one of the most fascinate city of the world, build on the water, with all its islands, it is unique in its gender; the most means of transpoting is the gondola.

It is the romantic city par excellente, an important turistic destination.

On the site you can indeed find information on how to reach the city, what to see, events month by month, where to sleep, to know the stories of famous people who have done great the name of Venice, but also where to look to hire a bicycle or where to find a laundry! ! ! ! (more…)

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Venice Film Festival

The next week stars the Venice Fim Festival: one of the must important event in the World of Cinema.

Looking at the program of the Mostra of Venice number 64 (64th edition) you can see how good is the competition. Also in cinema .

Because the program of Lagoon Kermess, that will be presented from 29 August to 8 September, brings a lot of great authors with both quantity and quality:

from Woody Allen to Brian De Palma, from Kenneth Branagh to Paul Haggis, from Ang Lee to Takeshi Kitano, from Peter Greenaway to Todd Haynes, from Eric Rohmer to Claude Chabrol, from Wes Anderson to Nikita Mikhalkov.

A lot of movie start are presented among whom: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Keira Knightley, Charlize Theron, Susan Sarandon, Scarlett Johansson.

The great challege for the competitors of the Festa di Roma and Festival di Torino.

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