This year is the fourth centenary since the first use of a telescope by Galileo Galilei and as many of you maybe already know, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2009 the International Year of Astronomy.

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One of the most active Italian cities which celebrate and commemorate this extraordinary step of mankind toward the sky, is the city of Turin.

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On 21^st March in fact, at the University department located in Via Verdi, a very very special exhibition will be set up: “La Storia dei Telescopi” (“The History of Telescopes”). This exhibition will show you in a very peculiar way the history of this invention, from the intuitions and discoveries which allowed to a great mind like Galileo Galilei, until the extraordinary telescopes of NASA which

The National University Library of Turin in the near future will house a really special exhibition entirely dedicated to a unique artist, “Goya: I disastri della Guerra” (“Goya: Disasters of War”).

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The title says it all. In fact the exhibition, which will take place from 15^th January to 28^th February, will show as absolute protagonists “Los Desastres de la Guerra” (“Disasters of War”) by Francisco Goya, the exceptionally gifted Spanish painter and engraver.

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The “Desastres” are 82 original palimpsests engraved by the artist, who tells the several wars and conflicts which for years afflicted the whole Europe, during a very important historical period, marked by deep political, cultural and institutional changes.

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In this way the exhibition, through these extremely striking palimpsests, retraces the history of Europe, so strong and evocative almost to tell the history of the whole world, in a linear way, laying out and organizing the pictures in a perfect chronological order.

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We don’t know exactly when Goya began to engrave his palimpsests. According to majority, it seems that he began between 1808 and 1809, but kept on work some years later, in 1820, with the “Caprichos Enfáticos” (the third section of the artworks’ series that refers to the Absolutist period with social-political criticism).

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Therefore, the exhibition awaits you from 15^th January to 28^th February in the halls of the National University Library of Turin.

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For further information about events, museums and much more in Turin, visit our website entirely dedicated to the city.

The city of Turin represents the capital of the contemporary artistic and architectural avant-garde, and it has always cooperated with the greatest cultural organizations to promote the launch of many young artists.

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“T Torino Triennale“ gets under way on its 2^nd edition just from these premises. The Triennial was born from the cooperation with Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo.

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The Triennial, which will stay open to the public until 1^st February 2009, wants to give as much space as possible to contemporary young artists, who come from every corner of the world and who dedicate their artistic genius to