Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo |
Tablet, iPad, iPhone and smartphone have become the travel mates of the tourists around the world. People who own them can’t help travelling without some app which help to find the treasures and the splendors of a city. Smartrippin has just been born: highly innovative Bergamo Tourist Guide. Image to be in front of a church, a palace, a monument, a place, an outlook and to use your smartphone as a personal multilingual tourist guide. You will be able to geo-localize you and your position, listen to the audio-guide, look at the pictures, share digital contents with other users, recall history and also to search for information about places...
Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Bergamo |
The center of Lower Bergamo, throbbing core of the commerce of the city, was planned by Marcello Piacentini. It extends across the area of the old fair of Sant’Alessandro and it start from the so called Sentierone: a bright tree-lined avenue flanked by porchs and stone cobbled, place of the city promenade. In front of the Sentierone there is the Donizetti theater, one of the most charming theater in Italy. Before start to walk along Via XX Settembre, the center of shopping, a tour in the near Via Torquato Tasso is reccomended. This street starts near the church of San Bartolomeo which si famous beacuse there is an opera...
Posted on Jun 28, 2013 in Trieste |
June 16th is a landmark date in modern literature. It is, in fact, known as Bloomsday, or the day in which the events in the life of the Leopold Bloom unfold, the main character of Ulysses by James Joyce. The novel is one of the most discussed, most loved and most hated of the 20th century. There are those who boast of devouring it whole, while others have tried a hundred times to read it and have never gotten past the first twenty pages. At any rate, the novel has clearly changed the way in which we perceive the world and the way in which the world is reflected...
Posted on Jun 27, 2013 in Bergamo |
The Upper City has a core and that is Piazza Vecchia. It is not too big, but it is adorned by artistic beauties and places of historical interest as a pearl necklace would do. It is difficult to stop the gaze on only one of the corner of the square, rectangular of course, but divided into two parts by the Palazzo della Ragione. It was built after the XII century and it was a political center of the city. There is a cloister on the ground, supported by columns and decorated capitals on which archs are placed and on the floor a sundial was realized. Outside the building you...
Posted on Jun 27, 2013 in Design Objects |
At the beginning of the 11th century in Murano, there was renewed fascination with the creation of glass. In fact, master glassblowers in Venice had already been creating small glass bottles using glassblowing techniques in 982. In the second half of the 13th century, all of the furnaces were transferred to the island of Murano, as a safety measure to protect the city. After nearly 900 years of magnificent artisanal work, at the beginning of the 20th century, the creativity of architects and designers was combined with traditional craftsmanship. This was a particularly active period, unique in the history of glassmaking. Artists began to design items, particularly vases, compelling the masters in...
Posted on Jun 26, 2013 in Art movements |
Streets clogged by automobiles, people hurrying on their way, construction works in squares and streets, chimneys spewing smoke, trains and trams that slice the city into sections, clanging along, and the roar of the airplanes that circle over the city, leaving streaks of smoke in their wake. As evening falls, artificial lights burn with their yellowish glow, making it possible to experience the night and all that it brings – the sense of the forbidden, alcohol, illicit sexual encounters, but also cabaret, cinema and theater. We are at the beginning of the 20th century, as the world changes pace. Life, work and free time all acquire new rhythms, the...
Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo |
Smartrippin, the new tourist app about Bergamo, is seen as a new way to analyze and discover the cultural and artistic treasures of the city. A usable and adaptable guide, perfect helper during your holidays in Bergamo. The app is highly innovative and offers contents and incitements through different media. You will be able to read information and also watch a photogallery or listen pieces as if you were endowed with an audio-guide. Maps, grafic information and interactive words would allow you to know more news and curiosities and they would show in a complete way the places you are visiting. The augmented reality is very important. It is...
Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo |
Bergamo city hosts many museums: the museum of modern art and the historical botanical garden, but there are a lot of open air museums that deserve to be known, visited and photographed. Starting from the Lower City, on the principal avenue called Papa Giovanni XXIII, the Propilaea of Porta Nuova are clearly visible. They are two twin buildings used as a monumental gate built in 1837 in Classical style. A little further, going on to the Upper City, there is the avenue called Sentierone, a paved boulevard on which some wonderful monuments overlook. On one side there is the civic theater dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti, and next to it...
Posted on Jun 24, 2013 in Artists |
There are certain cities in the world that live in the collective imagination through the medium of various artistic forms such as painting, photography and cinema. Some examples would be New York as immortalized in film, or Paris as recreated by the Impressionists, or Venice as evoked by Canaletto. In this article, we will discuss the latter pairing, and attempt to understand the Venice that emerges from the works of Giovanni Antonio Canal, the artist’s full name. Let’s begin with a statistical figure: the number of his paintings on display in his city are relatively few when compared to those housed in U.S. and British museums. The reason is...
Posted on Jun 19, 2013 in Museums |
The Pinacoteca di Brera (Brera Art Gallery) in Milan has an extensive and diverse collection of masterpieces. As you walk through its many rooms, you progress through artistic periods, techniques and expressions as well as stylistic movements. Each time you visit, you develop a new perspective and find a link between the works, a common thread that unifies objects of art across centuries. In this article, we will address the theme of the human form as an interpretative key as it is presented across paintings, statues and time periods. We will begin with the idols of Cycladic art, which peaked in the period between 2500 and 2000 B.C. In...
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