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Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Holidays in Bergamo: Smartrippin, the tourist App to discover it

Holidays in Bergamo: Smartrippin, the tourist App to discover it

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 a screen that, thanks to the camera of your mobile or tablet, makes you able to see what is in front of you showing the points of interest in that area. There is a section dedicated to different tours: for those who travel with children, for those who are in a couple, for those who want to follow the lifestyle...

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Posted on Jun 25, 2013 in Bergamo | 0 comments

Discovering the most important monuments of Bergamo city

Discovering the most important monuments of Bergamo city

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 a fountain, depicting the composer, is put. The church of San Bartolomeo and Santo Stefano is close to the theater and it stores the Pala Martinengo, a wood panel painted by Lorenzo Lotto. On the other side the war memorial entitled to Partisans made by the artist from Bergamo Giacomo Manzù in the Twentieth century and the the high memorial...

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Posted on Jun 24, 2013 in Artists | 0 comments

Canaletto and Venice: where imagination and reality work hand in hand

Canaletto and Venice: where imagination and reality work hand in hand

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 simple. From the 1700s onwards, these works represented breathtaking mementos of what was known as the Grand Tour. His canvases were acquired by rich tourists as a way of bringing home with them something of Italy, particularly paintings of its famous monuments. Canaletto’s landscapes were undoubtedly highly prized. When did Canaletto begin to paint his city of birth? It was...

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Posted on Jun 19, 2013 in Museums | 0 comments

Pinacoteca di Brera: the theme of the human form in the museum’s collection

Pinacoteca di Brera: the theme of the human form in the museum’s collection

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 this period, the body was stylized in stone and the sculptor did not attempt  a refined or detailed portrayal, but allowed the essential outlines of the body to provide the power of suggestion. These figures were usually female nudes with their hands on their stomachs, most likely representations of the mother goddess, symbol of fertility and fecundity. Defying the effects...

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