A Window on Italy – Corsini Masterpieces Showcased in WA
A Window on Italy-The Corsini Collection at Art Gallery of WA includes portraits, landscapes, paintings, objects and furniture from the Palazzo Corsini Florence
Tuscany
My Cousin Rachel – Victim or Villain, Is The Jury Still out?
Fear is not an option for Rachel Weisz as My Cousin Rachel, as she digs deep to provide a winning performance, bringing the film to fruition in a blaze of glory
Leon Battista Alberti – On Beauty and Progressing the Arts
An advocate of humanism and a mutil-talented Renaissance man Genoese born architect Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most brilliant celebrities of his day
Tuscany – At the Epicentre of the Modern World
In Tuscany, Italy the river Arno provides its life’s blood; a miracle of man’s achievement and survival in a world constantly assailed with change; one that has battled to survive as an inland town among the rugged Tuscan hills, no bigger than a provincial town today, dependent upon imported food…
La Rotunda, Spirit of Tuscany and the Renaissance
Today I have seen a splendid villa called La Rotunda ….on a beautiful hill…maybe art has never before reached such a level of magnificence. The rediscovery of ancient texts in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe changed perceptions. A new group of accomplished architects and artisans collectively ushered in…