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| | Syracuse, Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The 17th century destruction changed forever the appearance of Syracuse, as well as the entire Val di Noto, whose cities were rebuilt along the typical lines of Sicilian Baroque, considered one of the most typical expressions of art of Southern Italy. | | | The struggle among the city's parties, however, restarted after his death and ended with the rise of another tyrant, Agathocles, who seized the power with a coup in 317 BC. | | | The Syracusans enlisted the aid of a general from Sparta, Athens' foe in the war, to defeat the Athenians, destroy their ships, and leave them to starve on the island (see Sicilian Expedition). |
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| | Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Italy is sometimes called Belpaese (Italian for beautiful country) by its inhabitants, due to the beauty and variety of its landscapes and for its world's largest artistic patrimony; the country is home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites (40 until January 1, 2006). | | | Rome itself remained for a little less than a decade under the Papacy, and became part of the Kingdom of Italy only on September 20, 1870. | | | After Magna Graecia, the Etruscan civilization and especially the Roman Republic and Empire that dominated this part of the world for many centuries, Italy was central to European science and art during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. |
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| | Italian Askenazi: People |
| | Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), one of the most important art critics of his period, he was born in Lithuania, was an American citizen and lived for many years in Italy where he arrived as a boy thanks to a scholarship. | | | Volunteer during the Risorgimento campaigns, he was the first Jew to attain the degree of General in Italy. | | | Perhaps he left Italy for the aftermaths of his arbitration on a philosophical disputation among erudites. |
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| | Middle Ages |
| | The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection” Includes both artworks and decorative objects including showing students medieval history around the world. | | | Sections: Middle Ages: General; Early Christian; Byzantine; Islamic; Early Medieval; Romanesque; Gothic; Late Gothic Art in Italy; and Medieval Manuscripts. | | | Check out the Index of Materials on the Middle Ages and the Other Web Sites sections. |
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http://www.mrtschool.com/middle_ages.htm
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| | Whitman College Study Abroad - Syracuse: Florence, Italy |
| | Florence is a particularly well-suited destination for art history students because of the city's world-class art and architecture. | | | This program hosts approximately 400 US students each semester and offers courses in everything from art history to Italian politics. | | | Moreover, the Syracuse program incorporates field trips into many of the art history courses enabling students to study from the actual art and architecture itself. |
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http://www.whitman.edu/study_abroad/content/Programs/Affiliated/Europe/Italy/syracuse.cfm
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| | Shedding light on the ‘Dark Ages’ |
| | Medieval Coins Group© is a place for the collectors and students of Medieval Numismatics to share knowledge and information about Medieval European and Crusader coins. | | | Chapters on archaeology by David Whitehouse and medieval art by Wayne Dynes are invaluable for the beginning to intermediate researcher. | | | Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Spain. |
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http://ica.princeton.edu/reference/lightondark.htm
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| | Review of 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed by Melissa Panarello - Best of Sicily Magazine |
| | For the benefit of readers outside Italy, it should be noted that this book describes some sexual situations involving a 15 year-old girl with men over 21, something which would be illegal in some countries and in certain parts of the European Union and the United States. | | | The novel's Melissa is disgusted by her blindfolded group sex with five men, while Panarello herself views it more favorably but refuses to discuss particulars of her real-life experiences. | | | The book reviewed here presents sexually explicit content which may offend some readers. |
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http://www.bestofsicily.com/mag/art140.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy |
| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy | | | Look for books like The Franciscans and Art Patronage in Late Medieval Italy by subject: | | | Bourdua demonstrates how archival documentation and art can be combined to extend our understanding of the Franciscan art programs. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521821584
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| | Career Plus: Working and Living in Italy |
| | Italy is of course home to some of the finest opera, art, architecture and sculpture in the world, and a life time could be spent absorbing it all. | | | Italy is one of the keenest sporting nations on earth, and sports events attract enormous numbers of both spectators and participants. | | | The only state which maintained its full independence from foreign rule was the Duchy of Savoy, later known as the Kingdom of Sardinia, which began the process of independence and unity of Italy in the middle of the last century. |
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http://www.career-plus.com/life/gnit-1.htm
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| | About Moving to Italy (How to live and work in Italy) |
| | A close-up, produced in Italy, to help appassionati take advantage of what the Belpaese has to offer: offbeat itineraries and little-heard of initiatives and the latest in art, music and film. | | | Diane's excellent photographs of Italy are works of art and highly recommended by EscapeArtist.com. | | | Working in Italy - Working in Italy - his website is designed for Irish citizens looking for jobs, studying, living etc. in Italy, but there is no reason why much of the information should not be of value to most expatriates seeking to live in Italy. |
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http://www.escapeartist.com/italy/italy1.html
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| | Italy History & Italy Culture iExplore.com |
| | Italy’s historic trade performance has been all the more impressive given the dearth of raw materials, in particular the fact that all of the country’s oil and many of its raw materials must be imported. | | | Italy was now run by a tycoon for whom the distinction between the interests of the nation and those of his commercial empire were, to say the least, blurred. | | | This scandal, substantial even by Italian standards, and the upsurge during the summer of 1992 of Mafia violence, brought Italy to something of a social and moral crisis. |
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http://www.iexplore.com/dmap/Italy/History
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| | Italian Art Guide - Links to Italian art on the net. |
| | Here you will find a large sellection of sites and links to sites dedicated to Italian art and art in Italy, the art capitol of the world. | | | Artists in late 12th- 13th- and 14th-Century Italy (through the Web Gallery of Art, created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx) | | | Palace of the Museums (Modena, Italy), with information about the Este Library, the Este Gallery, and the Civic Museums |
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| | JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning |
| | Despite examples of assimilation, most Jews of Italy never became estranged from their Jewish intellectual and religious heritage. | | | Toward the end of the 13th century and beginning of the 14th the Jews in Italy focused on becoming money lenders and small-scale bankers. | | | They were driven into this occupation partly because no regular form of financial assistance was available from other sources for small merchants or needy individuals, and partly because of the Church prohibition on lending money for interest by Christians. |
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| | Italian Culture Resources |
| | A handbook to all major aspects of Italian culture divided into nine chapters (history, religion, marriage, festivals and food, Sports, literature, the arts, cinema and mass media). | | | Chapters are arranged by region or group of regions and the guide contains an appendix with a glossary of historic-artistic and liturgical terms, a guide to hotels and lodging for religious tourism, and a place index. | | | Government department concerned with all aspects of cultural life in Italy including the arts, sports, and cinema. |
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http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mdx/bibliogs/Italian/Itaculture.htm
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| | Encyclopedia: Italy |
| | Main article: Politics of Italy Italy has been a democratic republic since June 2, 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum (see birth of the Italian Republic). | | | Italy is well-known for its art, culture, and several monuments, among them the leaning tower of Pisa and the Roman Colosseum, as well as for its food (pizza, pasta, etc.), wine, lifestyle, elegance, design, cinema, theatre, literature, poetry, visual arts, music (notably Opera), holidays, and generally speaking, for taste. | | | Main article: Regions of Italy The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Italy
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| | Guide to Bergamo - Bergamo, Italy - BootsnAll.com |
| | The Academia Carrera is said to have one of the best collections of art in Italy. | | | Accademia Carrara is one of the most important galleries in Italy. | | | It was founded in 1796 by Count Carrara and today houses more than 18,000 pieces of art, including some by Botticelli, Raffaello, Bellini and Donatella. |
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| | Bresil, Henri-Robert - After receiving the ISPAN-UNESCO prize of honor at the Museum of Haitian Art in 1981, he exhibited in Haiti at several well-known galleries, and abroad in the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Switzerland and Japan. |
| | Bresil, Henri-Robert - After receiving the ISPAN-UNESCO prize of honor at the Museum of Haitian Art in 1981, he exhibited in Haiti at several well-known galleries, and abroad in the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Switzerland and Japan. | | | After receiving the ISPAN-UNESCO prize of honor at the Museum of Haitian Art in 1981, he exhibited in Haiti at several well-known galleries, and abroad in the United States, Puerto Rico, France, Italy, Switzerland and Japan. | | | It was then that he painted his first work of art, hence starting his career as a renowned painter. |
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| | Feb. 20, 1997-Vol28n21: Exploring medieval travel along Italy's pilgrimage routes |
| | Glass explained that this is because the study of medieval art began in France early in the early 19th century and the first major publications on pilgrimage routes were written in French about the French routes. | | | Their complex religious and secular iconography is interpreted by Glass as a depiction of events and places along medieval Italy's pilgrimage routes to Rome. | | | In Italy, most art historians have focused their attention instead on the country's rich resources from the Classical and Renaissance periods. |
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| | Italy: The regions |
| | The visitor has the whole of Italian art at his fingertips from the 13th to the 16th centuries in Florence, Siena, Pistoia, Lucca and Pisa. | | | The region overlooks the southernmost part of the Adriatic Sea, with the Gulf of Taranto, the Salentina peninsula and the Ionian Sea. | | | Campania is a region for holidaymakers: the Bay of Naples, Ischia, Capri, the Amalfi Coast, with Ravello, Amalfi, Positano, Sorrento, and spa resorts: Ischia, Agnano, Castellammare di Stabia. |
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| | ART HISTORY RESOURCES: Part 7 Art of the Middle Ages |
| | Medieval and Early Christian Art in the collection of the Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan) | | | Early Medieval Corpus, a database of all the single finds of coins minted 410-1180 found in the British Isles (Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) | | | Medieval Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| | Parma, Italy: Land of Ham & Cheese |
| | This is, after all, the capital of Italy's famous "food valley" where Prosciutto di Parma ham and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese reign supreme. | | | With a population of 170,000, this city is nestled in the fertile valley of the Po River in the heart of the richest of all Italian provinces, the Emilia-Romagna. | | | The city of Parma is located in north central Italy, mid-way between Milan and Bologna. |
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http://www.sallys-place.com/travel/europe/parma_italy.htm
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| | Pitzer College - External Studies |
| | Using the city of Parma as a case study, you will explore topics in Italian history, politics, economy, religion, art, literature, and culture through a series of lectures by area scholars and specialists as well as take study trips to other parts of Italy. | | | The heart of the Pitzer in Italy program is being a full member of an Italian family with all its privileges and responsibilities. | | | Pitzer in Italy is affiliated with the University of Parma and the Toschi Art Institute. |
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| | World History |
| | Lords of the Earth: The Maya/Aztec/Inca Center - Includes the history, geography, geology, astronomy, archeology, anthropology, and art forms related to the Americas before their discovery by Columbus. | | | It is intended primarily as a resource for students of classical art and archaeology, civilization, languages, and history at Indiana University as a supplement to their class lectures and reading assignments and as a source of images for use in term papers, projects, and presentations. | | | The Bartleby Encyclopedia of World History: "Renowned historian Peter N. Stearns and thirty prominent historians have combined their expertise over the past ten years to perfect this comprehensive chronology of more than 20,000 entries that span the millennia from prehistoric times to the year 2000." |
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| | Cultural Policy in Italy |
| | The cultural activities of the Ministry of the Performing Arts and Tourism include the promotion of the theatre, music and cinema. | | | Italy has signed bilateral agreements with 53 European and non-European countries, covering various aspects such as cultural events, establishment of cultural centers, cooperation between cultural institutions and universities, exchange of specialists, bilateral promotion of the respective languages, fellowships, exchange of publications, and co-operation in archaeological research. | | | Cultural heritage, or "beni culturali" as conceived by the Italian administration, includes architectural monuments, museums, libraries and archives (the relatively young Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the Environment has been created by combining the former General Direction of Antiquities and Fine Arts with the State Archives). |
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| | AllRefer.com - Siena, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | AllRefer.com - Siena, Italy (Italian Political Geography)- Encyclopedia | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Italian Political Geography > Siena | | | Also of note in Siena are the Baptistery of San Giovanni, with a 15th-century font by Jacopo della Quercia; the rich art gallery (Pinacoteca); the Gothic St. Dominic's Church, with frescoes by Il Sodoma; and Piccolomini palace. |
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| | Italy Travel Guide, Hotels in Italy, Art City Guides, Italy Tours |
| | The project started in 1999 with the city of Venice where we live, and now is open to Florence, Rome and Naples as well as to many important italian cities... | | | In Italy Today is a travel across the most important art cities in Italy: Venice, Florence, Rome, Naples, to discover the treasures of this wonderful country, first in the world for the historic artistic heritage, magic for its architecture and preserved monuments, the archeology and art museums... | | | The travel guide provides useful information about Italy hotels and accommodation, expecially selected for your travel in Italy art cities. |
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| | Here are a few more details: The documentary narrated by Jason Robards is called "The World of Tomorrow." It is shown on PBS from time to time, and is also shown, and for sale at the Queens Museum of Art in Flushing Meadow Park (the New York City Building at the Fairs). | | | Thinking that almost everything was on the Web, one day I searched for the New York World's Fair of 1939 and 1940, but I didn't find it. | | | P.S. Have you ever thought of contacting one of the Burn's brothers Ken or Ric about possibly suggesting to them a new documentary in thier amazing style on the 1939 worlds fair- i think that would be simply wonderful. |
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| | Taxi, Art Workshops, Excursions, ... - Syracuse, Sicily, Italy |
| | Useful website with road maps of Italy and Sicily. | | | ART INCONTRO SICILIA is a cultural program based in Syracuse combining art workshops (drawing, painting, printmaking or bookmaking) with an itinerary of daily excursions exploring south-eastern Sicily and Palermo. | | | Workshops are conducted in English and are open to all skill levels, including people with no previous art experience. |
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http://www.casesicilia.com/servizi_en.htm
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