Ergebnis für "Joseph" in Italien

How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionized childhood education amid the splendor of Renaissance art. The story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first—but certainly not...

Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence’s unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all 100 cantos of The Divine Comedy by the city’s greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. A powerful encounter between poet and artist, sacred and secular, earthly and evanescent, these drawings produced a wealth of stunning images but were never finished.

Tra il 1644 e il 1670 piazza Navona assunse nuova forma e, da antico stadio in rovina, divenne la più leggendaria piazza romana. Bernini, Cortona e Borromini, insieme ai Rainaldi (Girolamo e Carlo), costruirono un palazzo che vantava un'infilata di stanze talmente lunga che era possibile sperimentarvi i cannocchiali, una galleria con i più bei cicli di affreschi barocchi, una fontana maestosa che celebrava i quattro grandi fiumi del mondo cristiano e una chiesa che aveva una delle cupole più alte di Roma.

The campaign of 1859 in Northern Italy was one of the first of the epoch-making, rapidly conducted wars that marked the latter half of the nineteenth century. It was, moreover, as has been pointed out by the author of Imperial Strategy, the “first war in Europe which conveyed some preliminary indication of what railways can accomplish.”