(CNN) The signs of the Renaissance are everywhere in Italy.
Grand piazzas and palazzos. Metal-spiked doors. Looming archways. And, of course, all that ever-present art in the churches and galleries.
But in one city, you also get a taste of the Renaissance every time you enter a restaurant.
Ferrara, in the northern region of Emilia Romagna, was once home to the Estense court, or House of Este, which ruled the city from the 13th to the 18th centuries.
The court, on the bank of the River Po, was one of the most formidable cultural powers during the Renaissance. Writers including Boiardo, Ariosto and Torquato Tasso were employed by the court, and artists such as Bellini, Mantegna and Piero della Francesco worked for the Este family in their domineering, moat-surrounded castle in the center of town.
The Italian town where they eat 500-year-old meals
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Christie s to offer Old Master & British Drawings including property from The Cornelia Bessie Estate
Laurent de La Hyre (Paris 1606-1656), The Binding of Isaac with inscription La Hire(on the mount). Black and white chalk on light brown paper, 12 x 153⁄8 in. (30.5 x 39.1 cm). Estimate: $80,000-120,000. © Christie s Images Ltd 2021.
NEW YORK, NY
.-Christies online auction Old Master & British Drawings including property from The Cornelia Bessie Estate will be offered for sale 14-28 January and will feature works from the 15th to the 19th centuries, with a particular focus on drawings by some of the greatest 18th century French artists.
A rare highlight of the auction appearing on the market for the first time is Jean-Étienne Liotards pastel Portrait of Philibert Cramer, one of Voltaires publishers, which is offered by his descendants (estimate: $400,000-600,000). The dashing sitter is identified on a label on the back of the canvas as Philibert Cramer (1727-1779),