The dream of a more beautiful life “The aspiration to a more beautiful life has at all times had before it three paths to the distant goal. The first leads out of the world… The second was the path that leads to the improvement and perfection of the world...
In 1987, a large iconographic exhibition entitled In Praesepio: images of the Nativity in engravings from the 16th-19th centuries was set up in Casanatense, curated by Iolanda Olivieri and Angela Vicini Mastrangeli. On that occasion, 300 prints taken from the...
On the occasion of Christmas in Rome we set up an iconographic exhibition. ENEA, THE PROGENITOR Troy burns. Aeneas with the old Anchises on his shoulders, Ascanius by the hand and the simulacra of Athena and the Penates clasped in her arms, flees from her city and her...
by Sabina Fiorenzi When the Tevere was scary. Since ancient times, the Tevere has been a ‘cross and delight’ for the inhabitants of Rome and its surroundings. The amenity of its banks and the pleasantness of the activities that could be exercised on them and on the...
by Anna Alloro Artur Wolynski (1844-1893) Artur Wołyński was born in Słuzewo (Warsaw) on 9 February 1844. Engaged in political struggle from a very young age, when the Polish uprising of 1863 failed and was sentenced to death, he was forced to flee abroad, first to...
by Margherita Palumbo Ecclesiastical censorship and the heliocentric theory published on the occasion of the exhibition”Ecclesiastical censorship and the heliocentric theory” From Rome, March 12, 1616 […] By order of the Most Holy Cardinals of the...
