Albertina Museum opens its largest-ever survey of the history of landscape painting
Paul Klee, Country House near Fribourg, 1915. Watercolors and gold paint. The Albertina Museum, Vienna. The Forberg Collection.
VIENNA
.- Surveying the past five centuries of landscape painting enables us to quite literally see how human identity has been transformed. Our own visual experience of these perspectives lets us perceive and feel the changes in human beings self-concept from generation to generation. Those who portray nature also end up revealing themselves in equal measure, which makes for a fascinating journey of (self-)discovery, a search for orientation, a wordless dialogue with our origins and our shared history.
The Letter n°930 Eric Maurice
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The Climbers, 1510. Engraving on laid paper. Sheet 284 x 224 mm. Sold for £4,750 on 14 December 2017 at Christie’s in London
Raimondi was also skilled enough to combine different sources in one print, as he did with The Climbers (above): a landscape copied from Lucas van Leyden, in which he set three male nudes lifted from the cartoon for Michelangelo’s never-realised fresco,
The Battle of Cascina.
By around 1510, Raimondi had settled in Rome. It was there that he struck up one of the greatest artistic double-acts of the Renaissance: with Raphael.
Giorgio Vasari thought Raimondi worthy of a whole chapter in his book,
Thursday, 25 March 2021, 23:27
Ukrainian-language audio guide launched in Colosseum
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The Ukrainian-language audio guide was launched in the Colosseum in Rome, becoming the ninth audio guide as part of the project initiated by First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.
“The launch of Ukrainian-language audio guides is part of the cultural diplomacy vector. This project is aimed to spread the Ukrainian language in the world, so that the voice of Ukraine is heard in the world s most outstanding landmarks,” the press service of the President’s Office informs.
“The idea of launching Ukrainian-language audio guides first came to me in Berlin during a bus tour of the city. In fact, this was the first time I saw Ukrainian in the list of possible languages,” Olena Zelenska said.