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Throughout the centuries there’s been frequent massacres of artists, philosophers, thinkers, writers, scientists and activists who have been sentenced to death for defending their ideals with strength and coherence, for having carried out their personal struggles against a society that censored them with violence.

From that fact, the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ tries to represent some of these famous people with pictorial language, conferring an artistic dimension to the tragic events of history (also recent history). And so, Antonello Morsillo, an Italian artist who lives and works in Rome, decided to concentrate his recent production on the history of these famous disappeared people, making a last exhibition as a tribute to upstream thinking and condemning denied freedom.

Morsillo was born in southern Italy, in Foggia, and since he was a teen he took interest in illustration, beginning to make characters for cartoons. Years later, in Rome, he was to obtain his degree in graphic advertising, drawing and painting. His first individual exhibition was the publication of a catalogue in 2002. For four years Morsillo worked with SonyBMG and this experience allowed him to establish himself definitively as an illustrator thanks to the making of album covers for popular Italian singers, such as Milva, Patty Pravo and Luigi Tenco.

But it’s with the exhibition ‘Undressed of flesh’ that Morsillo reaches a new era in his artistic development, uniting illustration and painting and a deep theoretical investigation. This way, he makes a pictorial and conceptual route that takes us to the murders of Federico García Lorca, Giordano Bruno, Sophie Scholl, Matthew Shepard, Gandhi and many more.

And so, Morsillo chose Ipazia, a mathematician, astronomer and philosopher from ancient Greece who was literally cut to pieces by a group of Christians, and he represents her pregnant, as the mother of science. We also find Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Italian writer and film director who was murdered in 1975 by a ‘ragazzo di vita’ (child of life) and he’s represented with open arms, simulating a flight from his ‘crucifixion’. There’s also Giordano Bruno, who doesn’t have a mouth in the painting but slight marks instead that seem to slowly give him back his words, and Sophie Scholl (leader and activist of the anti-Nazi movement ‘White Rose’), represented with a white rose in her mouth, tied by a string of thorns that condemns silence.

The exhibition can be visited until the 17th of February at the Rodari Library, located on Via Francesco Tovaglieri 237/a (00169). The opening times are from Monday to Friday from 9am till 7pm, Saturday from 9am till 1.30pm and closed all day Sunday. You’ll find more information on this webpage: www.artribune.com/dettaglio/?type=event&id=7619

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Until the 29th of April, the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma-MACRO exhibits, at the Centro di produzione culturale, the work of the American photographer Steve McCurry. The exhibition is a tribute to one of the most important exponents of contemporary photojournalism, obtaining on various occasions the World Press Photo Award, considered the most important award in this field.

The work of McCurry has become a reference point for those who like photojournalism. Both he and his work are well known in Italy, becoming a reference for many young people who see the events of our time through his photographs. This reason has brought the MACRO Museum to make this exhibition that symbolizes a tribute of the Italian people to McCurry and his work.

The exhibition is commissioned by Fabio Novembre, who has taken the 200 best works made by McCurry of his 30 year career. Despite that the presentation of the young Afghan woman with green eyes in the exhibition is inevitable, there will also be some more recent works that gather the period between 2009 and 2011. Among the works that will be exhibited there will be photographs taken in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), that include a spectacular series dedicated to Buddhism. There will also be some unknown work of his taken in Cuba.

Steve McCurry was born in 1950 in Philadelphia, United States. His start in photojournalism took place in a local newspaper. His first incursion outside the United States was in India, where he made an interesting tour to observe and capture the complex world of castes and misery in the middle of scenic and aesthetic beauty, given by the landscape and ancestral culture. In 1978 he moved to Afghanistan to make photojournalism and he stayed there covering the conflict until 1992. However, the work that took him to stardom in journalism and photography is the photograph ‘Afghan Girl’, that appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985 and which was reproduced in all the media of the time and the years after that, being considered as one of the most important images of the 20th century that has appeared in reports, posters, leaflets and all kinds of printed media.

The ‘Afghan Girl’ is a photograph of Sharbat Gula, a 12 year old girl of the Pashtun tribe who was in a refugee camp in Pakistan. Her name he got to now 20 years later when he went back to the area and found her at the age of 30, with the pain of war reflected on her face.

His work has taken place in war fronts such as Beirut, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the surrounding areas, Kuwait, the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans. McCurry’s photographs tell us the horrors of war and the loss of the limits of reason that happen during these conflicts.

For more information:

http://www.macro.roma.museum/mostre_ed_eventi/mostre/steve_mccurry

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If you enjoy the places where human warmth is the centre of life, we recommend that you rent apartments in Rome and enjoy a few wonderful days attending all the good shows and exhibitions that this city has this time of year.

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From next 31^st of January, to the 12^th of February 2012, we will be able to enjoy in Rome, one of the most famous masterpieces of the English writer William Shakespeare, we are indeed talking about the most famous love story in the world, Romeo and Juliet. The performance will take place in the majestic Teatro Eliseo in the Italian capital.

It would be impossible to know or try to calculate how many adaptations of this classic have been made since 1597, year in which Shakespeare finished writing the book. As a little known curiosity, some people said that the great writer and playwright based his story on other contemporary tales to write Romeo and Juliet. About the beginning of the sixteenth century Italian and French people already had the sad stories of two lovers. Different writers translated into French and into English the original story by Matthew Bandello. Shakespeare compiled the best of both adaptation and included new original characters on his own, in what is now undoubtedly the saddest love story ever written.

The play plot is based on the love between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Both belong to the two most influential families in Verona that hate each other. But the lovers try to ignore everything around them and find ways to pursue their romance. Juliet finally planned to drink a potion that would make her look like dead and thus disappear with her lover at last. But Romeo was not advised of the trick and thinking he had lost his love forever, commits suicide at the tomb of Juliet. Juliet wakes up and when she sees the dead body of her lover also decides to kill herself.

The director of the play is Valerio Binasco, who is in charge of leading a great cast composed by the best Italian actors of the moment. Arturo Annecchino, who has composed the soundtrack to this beautiful and sad story, will play the music. Riccardo Scamarcio plays Romeo and Deniz Ozdogan will interpret the role of Juliet. Success is assured and there could be no better setting than Teatro Eliseo for this so important play written by such great writer as Shakespeare.

The fact that the play in its representation coincides with Valentine’s Day and is not a coincidence. The capital of the ancient empire is considered one of the most romantic cities in the world. It may be a unique opportunity to celebrate this important day in the company of your partner in the setting of the city of Rome, walking through its streets, visiting its legacy, its temples, the Vatican, Roman Forum and of course the Colosseum. Discover the Trevi Fountain, stroll along the banks of the river or visit the hundreds of fashion stores on its avenues.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased from 36 €,  http://www.italianticketoffice.it/romeo-e-giulietta-teatro-eliseo-131802l1154377-es.html

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It is a unique opportunity to rent apartments in Rome and attend this performance. Rome is a multicultural capital, full of life and places to visit. Its cuisine is unique and do not forget to eat a wonderful ice cream before returning home.

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Dining is one of those luxuries we all indulge in. That is, to eat something delicious is possible if with a little curiosity and good taste, we explore the city that we visit and aptly choose an appropriate restaurant . No need to spend too much either, just see that it is within the capabilities of our pockets and keep track of our stomachs demands. The aperitif before dinner is a classic ritual for those who know how to start a good meal.

Within snack tasting surely there is no rule. It depends on what you’re looking for, either something refreshing or strong, it also depends on the dishes you are going to eat. Usually a good glass of wine is a classic appetizer. Many prefer a lighter whiskey with some ice to also open the appetite. Generally, fruit cocktails are not recommended before a meal because of its high sugar content, which also raises the levels of alcohol during ingestion. Drink whatever you want, but drink something before you eat, it alerts the senses and gives food intake even more emphasis on the palate, raising awareness and giving more pleasure in eating. If you eat something in Rome, here are some bars that can be perfect to visit to start your meal.

Societe Lutece is one of the more “chic” bars  you can find in Rome. Located near the Piazza Navona, the great variety of drinks will give you many options to choose from before dinner. Very cozy and very comfortable, Societe Lutece also offers you a buffet of salads and other small snacks to start your appetite before dinner.

Salotto 42 is another point of reference if what you need is a refreshing drink before dinner. Try to arrive on time because it usually tends to be very full, plus many Roman celebrities spend evenings in this bohemian place. They also offer fresh salads and sandwiches to accompany your favorite cocktail.

The Modo bar is another meeting point if you’re looking to share a good drink accompanied by a light jazz concert before lunch. Also, Modo has known dj-s that will make your evening before dinner never ending. Designed completely in white and black, you’ll find yourself in a Kubrick film “a la Roman”, of course, you will be more than simply fascinated.

Finally, E Frizioni Freni is the quintessential bar if your after “arty” and modern style. Decorated with books and contemporary art everywhere, this bar offers snacks at very affordable prices and of a high quality. Definitely a point where literary and intellectual gatherings will be on the city’s daily agenda. Simply a classic.

Alexa Ray

Get apartments in Rome the nights in this city are endless and full of bohemia. Every corner hides a story that awaits you as well as and hidden bars and exotic drinks. Let your curiosity invade this classic city.

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The city of Rome, and in particular the beautiful Complesso del Vittoriano, will host during the entire month of January the exhibition “Perfect Harmony”, by the great Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944). This important retrospective, which will be open until the 29th of January, presents a comprehensive tour of the artist’s work, through about 70 paintings and drawings, along with some forty works of other artists who influenced more significantly his work. Thus, by walking through the artistic development of Piet Mondrian, in the exhibition “Perfect Harmony” is possible to get to know the evolution of formal and conceptual investigation of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century.

Mondrian was undoubtedly best known for the rectangular structures of his last works, he actually began his artistic production because of his fascination by the Dutch landscape around him. It was only later that he began to investigate the alleged “essential knowledge”, trying to reduce the representation to its more intimate and necessary lines, eliminating all plastic items considered superfluous. His purpose was ambitious: by using geometry, he intended to find the basic structure that moves the entire universe. To achieve this goal, he deleted the curves, the nuances and the figurative representation (which he considered misleading) and even got to prohibit the presence of green in his home. For the extreme simplicity of his last works, those who came to understand the deeper meaning that was hidden in the structure -indeed very simple – in his paintings have often trivialized the artist.

The exhibition “Perfect Harmony” features masterpieces exceptionally granted to Complesso del Vittoriano, by the Gemeentemuseum (whose director is also the curator of the exhibition) and has been made possible through the collaboration and support of major institutions such as the Denver Art Museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

Benno Tempel, curator of “Perfect Harmony” and Gemeentenmuseum director, stressed that Mondrian is one of the few artists who have left the regular production of art. In fact, as he says, few artists have managed to renew their production steadily, while maintaining a relevant tension to the search for new formal expressions and reworking of the concepts behind the works. One of the most interesting aspects of the Mondrian’s formal investigation, is precisely the will to achieve a harmonious pictorial expression (from which he created abstract art), it does not simply represent reality, but a Utopia capable of making you think of transcending ways. For more information: http://www.comune.roma.it

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So if you are in the Italian capital, do not miss the opportunity to learn more about the work of this great artist and his reunited comprehensive retrospective. Otherwise, you can rent apartments in Rome and come to spend a few days with art and culture that will surround you.

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It’s not easy to draw the line which differentiates cafés and bars in Rome. At cafés there usually are tables and a wide range of different types of drinks, and at bars it’s not unusual that clients sit at the bar to quickly sample the day’s umpteenth espresso, because, probably like nowhere else in the world because this is very particular to the Italian capital, coffee is almost a religion and it’s important like nowhere else.

As a consequence, the grade of sybaritism reached by the Romans is so sophisticated (both regarding coffee and the most delicate art of having aperitif, which precedes meals), that it’s convenient to be aware of the places which they frequent if we want our stay in this city to also have another aesthetic experience aside from museums, and which will teach us how to live life as a dramatic ritual which brings it value and sense of existence.

Baylon Café (Via di San Francesco a Ripa, 151) is one of the latest trends in the ever popular and lively Trastevere district, one o the true lungs of the most authentic Rome. It is a perfect place to those dead hours between lunch and dinner when the temptation to eat something savoury is invincible. The aperitif, which ends up substituting dinner in itself on many an occasion, reaches a category here which is seldom seen, a phenomenon which is not unrelated to the extreme friendliness of the waiters, who are totally charming. And if this wasn’t enough, in the morning it’s also an ideal place to have the first coffee, it’s cappuccino is legendary.

Seemingly more functional and modest, Boccone, located in the city centre, at Piazza di Pietra, close to the Pantheon, is popularly known as the paradise of paninis and sandwiches. Just for the view that it offers of the eleven columns from the Temple of Hadrian which decorate the square, it’s worth visiting. But the Roman who comes to this place for its food to take away, doesn’t think so much about ancient Rome but in the splendor of its impressive offering of unforgettable sandwiches that, due to the lack of tables inside just like tradition says, have to be consumed on the bench just outside the shop.

Not far from there, at night, for that must-have drink after work, Bar del Fico, located on the piazza with the same name, is one of the favourite places for Roman workers, who go there attracted especially by the call of its famous ‘spumoso’ wine, prosecco, which is served appropriately in champagne glasses. They say that it’s convenient to play on the lottery the night that you get a table in its busy terrace.

Lastly, the cultural and artistic atmosphere of Caffè Fandango (Via dei Prefetti, 22) constitutes the perfect stage to have a coffee in a more continental way, in other words, slowly and taking a long time, in contrast with the more rooted Roman custom.

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When you rent apartments in Rome don’t miss out on visiting these places if you really want to feel the breath and pulses of this extraordinary city.

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The beautiful Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera (http://www.operaroma.it/stagione/stagione_2011_2012/balletti) will present from the 20^th to the 30^th of December, one of the greatest Christmas classics; the Nutcracker ballet by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), without which it is almost impossible to imagine the festivities that celebrate the Winter Solstice in West, something like without the traditional lights that for a few weeks miraculously transform the look of the cities, or the magical gifts and good wishes that citizens exchanged all over the world.

On the stage of the famous Roman theater, place of the emotional time lived a few months ago during the performance of Nabucco de Verdi, held to commemorate the one hundred fifty years of the Italian unification, when the famous orchestra director Riccardo Muti, broke a habit rooted in him and went to ask the public to join the chorus of the song Va pensiero after making a parallel between their situation, which in times of the romantic composer de Verdi used as an allegory of the situation of the oppressed people of Italy, and the transalpine country’s culture under Berlusconi’s government in these words: “I have lived my life traveling extensively throughout the world over 60 years, and as Italian I feel ashamed of what is happening in my country. So he accepted the request to make Va Pensiero again. This is not only for the patriotic joy I feel, but because tonight, when I directed the choir singing ‘Oh, my beautiful and lost country’ I thought that If it continues like that, if we do not help the culture, our country will be truly ‘beautiful and lost’, -on the same stage, we said, is displayed, as in so many countries for more than a century during the last days of this beautiful and disturbing story of broken toys, robots, objects that in parallel worlds come to life and always happy haunting and fascinating of E.T.A Hoffmann immortalized by an envelope whose hypnotic music is delicate and abysmally introduces viewers to the latest galleries leaving blood, aided by a dreamy choreography non-easily forgotten, suspended in a somnambulistic state open, as befits the days that advertise and serve threshold to the birth of the Sun and the New Year, to the astonishment, the exceptional, the mystery and magic, which corresponds to a state of grace.

Uncertainty about the consistency of the territory that supposedly separates the waking and sleeping spaces, woven here with movements, words and images as a happy musical blanket of change that has the power of imagination through the conventional perception of things to access the true life, the one that poets and the Gnostics speak about, is characteristic of all truly spiritual sense or even if you feel in communion with others, religious.

Paul Oilzum

Maybe that’s why this strange and overpowering Christmas story, with all its exoticism resources, typical of late nineteenth century, continues to affect us so deeply and intimately. Rent apartments in Rome for the celebrations of the solstice, do not miss it.

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It would be difficult to find a musical band which encompasses the notions of deterritorialization and nomadism so well as the unique Gogol Bordello, who will offer one of their magnificent accoustic concerts in the Orion venue in Rome on the forthcoming 10th of December http://www.gogolbordello.com/tour/future/

Lead by the Ukrainian actor, model, thinker, writer, songwriter and, especially, unforgettable performer of gypsy descent Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello became, since its origins in 1999 in the Lower East Side of New York, into one of the cult bands of the last few years par excellence. They are famous for their mercurial and galvanizing shows, true geological upheavals which gave the feeling of shaking the whole neighbourhood, and which gave the few attendants who packed out the venue where they played night after night, the feeling of being the most privileged beings on the planet.

Large part of their merit, down to no small part to their songs, which have truly intelligent, acrimonious and provocative lyrics, lies in creating a totally new scene which, in some way, mixed the artistic and musical New York avant-garde with the immigrant communities that have always characterized the city around a unique and extraordinarily energetic sound which collected the spirit of punk and gypsy music.

Today, the members of Gogol Bordello, a true ‘United Nations on wheels’ to quote Hütz, come from such different places as Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Ecuador,  Scotland or Los Angeles, and the plurality of nationalities is one of the keys to their sounds and the title of their latest studio album, the great and mostly accoustic ‘Trans-Continental Hustle’.

In the origin of the band, however, we find two events of colossal and transforming impact which took place in 1986, which are like electric sound collisions of nuclear proportions. The first one was the arrival of Sonic Youth in Kiev, whose concert definitively convinced Eugene Hütz of his vocation as a punk musician, and the second one was the tragedy of Chernobyl, responsible for the beginning of a personal diaspore for the leader of the future Gogol Bordello, which took him, in an odyssey of 11 years, to the city of New York after having gone through the caravan of the gypsy clan of his grandmother (where supposedly his uncle had shown him the circus art of training bears and where he assimilated the nomadic lifestyle which he would always show off), different refugee camps in search of asylum in Poland, Austria and Italy and, finally, Vermont, a city where he’d form his first band, The Fags, very influenced by the sound of, apart from the aforementioned Sonic Youth, The Clash, Birthday Party, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Henry Rollins, Mano Negra and Iggy Pop among others.

‘Trans-Continental Hustle’, whose songs will make up most of the concert in Rome, were written in Brazil where, strangely enough, Hütz seems to have found, through a girlfriend from this very country, a place where he can maybe grow old one day with the person he loves.

Paul Oilzum

Its sound, maybe even more in its accoustic version, is everything but domesticated. If you go to see it when you rent apartments in Rome you’ll be able to find out that Gogol Bordello are still a band in an absolute state of grace.

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Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome presents an interesting exhibition about Robert Filliou, which is part of the activities of the Fluxus Biennial. The exhibition of the works by  Filliou, is curated by Achille Bonito and opens to the public free of of charge from the 2^nd of December to 15^th of January, 2012.

Filliou’s work is intimately connected to words. He was a poet; despite his artistic work it covered a wider world than poetry. Considered an innovative and disruptive, his work marked by iconoclastic aesthetic interest to make art a permanent state of creation, where creation was the limit to the imagination.

The organizers invited the Italian artist, living in London, Londra Sandrine Nicolettato to the opening of the exhibition. The artist, who will perform one of her performance in which public participation is critical as an actor, showing an interesting redefining the proposal to transform it into an environment of social, physical and mental health.

Robert Filliou was born in Sauve, France, in 1926. In the mid-40 he moved to live in the United States and studied economics at the University of California. After his graduation, he worked in the United Nations program for the development of Korea. In the early 60′s, his life has a twist that will change his career and his way of thinking, to join a group of poets and artists who are beginning to question the system of domination imposed and seek through art, liberating look, far from the alienation of the consumer society.

Among those friends were the dancer and Romanian-born Swiss poet, Daniel Spoerri, whose real name was Daniel Isaac Feinstein, and was known as one of the most important figures of postwar art. Along with Spoerri made Piège à mots (1964), which corresponds to a visual montage that is part of everyday expressions of speech.

In 1962, he decided to join the stream of Fluxus art, is presented in the Misfits, London Festival, where he presented a device made from bicycle wheels as a roulette was organized with words for poems, which caught the attention and the attraction of the public who enjoyed writing ephemeral poems.

The Fluxus (a word which in Latin means flow), arises in the 60′s and covers all expressions of art and its main purpose is to refuse to look at art as a commodity. Its initiator was the Lithuanian George Maciunas, who defined it as the anti-art and includes all materials breaking all the existing categorization of art.

Between 1965 and 1968, Filliou installed an opened  a space to create with George Brecht. This consisted of a workshop where artists and creators could attend to share all creative perspectives about the southern French city of Villefranche-sur-Mer.

during the 70’s, Filliou worked in various media, materials and forms of his work, including video works such as those in Canada. A piece of work with his own image that reproduces the codes of irony, so characteristic of Fluxus.

For more information http://www.auditorium.com/eventi/5095431

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From October 5, at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome you can see the exhibition, Filippino Lippi e Sandro Botticelli nella Firenze del ’400 (Lippi and Botticelli in Florence in the fifteenth century). The exhibition will be open to the public until January 15, 2012 and is curated by Alessandro Cecchi, director of the Palatine Gallery in Florence.

This exhibition aims to present to the public nearly 34 years of incessant activity of the master Filippino Lippi between Prato, Florence and Rome. He was a successful painter even in the dark time of Savonarola, the inquisitor. He stands out for the amount and quality of his works, despite being initially overshadowed his master, Botticelli.

Organised via the collaboration of the Polo Museale Fiorentino, and the Fondo Edifici di Culto, together with private associations such as “Friends of Florence”, the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the masterpieces of these two great Tuscan painters. These paintings are vital parts of both human and artistic history and they offer a unique opportunity for comparing some of the great works by these two geniuses. The exhibition analyzes the relationship between the two masters in the context of the time and place in which they lived and worked: Florence in 1500, a city that was buzzing with artistic zeal and innovation.

Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, near Florence in 1457. His parents were a monk and a nun. He was named Filippino to distinguish himself from his father, Fra Filippo Lippi, who was a famous and well-respected painter in his time.

Botticelli was born in Florence in 1445, and began as an apprentice in the workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi, from whom he learned a great deal. In fact, many of Botticelli’s early works have been attributed to his teacher. Years later Botticelli would become teacher to Filippino, who worked in his studio. In turn, his early works closely resemble those of Botticelli and are usually attributed to the pseudonym “Friend of Sandro.”

The exhibition revolves mainly around the works of these 2 artists, although some other painters of the time are also included, such as Raffaellino Del Garbo, Piero Di Cosimo and Filippo Lippi.

The exhibition also includes the final period of Lippi’s artistic life, when he worked in Rome and painted the Caraza Chapel cycle. It was during this time that the Grotesque style began to have an influence, making for paintings that were mysterious, fantastic and disturbing, linked to the dark atmosphere that Savoranola’s inquisition had brought about.

Among the masterpieces that you can see in this exhibition are “La Madonna col Bambino e storie di Sant’Anna” (1452-53) by Lippi’s father, taken from the Palatine Gallery in Florence; “Madonna en Adorazione del bambino”, (1478), by Filippino Lippi and provided by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; “L’Apparizione della Vergine a san Bernardo“, (1486), now in the Badia Fiorentina in Florence or “Madonna Strozzi” (1485) from the Metropolitan in New York.

Another highlight is Botticelli’s “Adorazione dei Magi” (1475-76) which is also provided by the Uffizi Gallery.

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If you come to Rome before January 15 don’t forget to come to this extraordinary exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale. Afterwards you can return to your comfortable rented apartments in Rome and talk about renaissance art until the wee small hours of the night.

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