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La mostra "Verrocchio, il maestro di Leonardo" a Palazzo Strozzi celebra, in occasione del cinquecentesimo anniversario della scomparsa di Leonardo da Vinci, la figura di un artista che fu geniale interprete dei valori del Rinascimento nella Firenze medicea di Cosimo il Vecchio, di Piero e di (...)

To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541--1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Venice, to Rome and ultimately Toledo, Spain, "The (...)

The book structure is intrinsically related to ideas underpinning the attitude of Francis of Assisi that are still highly topical: human dignity in poverty, the revaluation of sensible knowledge as opposed to the hegemony of purely instrumental reason, the preservation of nature - entropy, walking (...)