Tag: Italy

Italy – the country where the lemons bloom Already Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) wrote in his poem Mignon “Do you know the land where the lemons bloom” and thus described the longing of northern Europeans for the beautiful country in southern Europe. Germans prefer to travel to Italy. Italy still attracts with its varied […]

According to Usvsukenglish, the city of Iseo is located on the southern shore of the lake of the same name, located 20 km east of Bergamo in the Lombardy region. This is a small foothill lake with an area of 65 sq. km. The tiny lake is more suitable for a short rest, mostly Italians […]

Shopping Overview Italian goods are world renowned for their elegance, chic and high quality. Italian design is in high demand. One should be careful when buying antiques, there are skilled counterfeiters in Italy. Discounts are sometimes given for larger purchases. Florence, Milan and Rome are leading fashion cities, but the small town boutiques are also […]

The new conquests of Florentine art gradually reached northern Italy. Around the middle of the century, Andrea Mantegna assimilated them and spread them, imprinting on them his own humanistic energy with enthusiasm for archaeological reconstruction, a rigor of linear engraving, for which he dominates. And immediately around him arise the three great Ferraresi, Tura, Cossa and Ercole […]

According to IAMHIGHER, Bertoldo was Michelangelo’s teacher; Verrocchio to Leonardo. The graces of Desiderio da Settignano and his minor companions were not worth, in the generation that was to create the sixteenth century, if not for the minor masters and for the province. Energy, movement, violence were required, and the major artists were found ready by Verrocchio, and […]

Andrea della Robbia (1435-1528), Luca’s heir, composes altarpieces with translucent statues on glassy blue backgrounds, hugs the mother to the child in sacred groups, gives to the putti, who in the roundabouts of the portico degl’Innocenti open imploring arms , and elsewhere they hold festoons of fruit or repeat graceful classical motifs of animal fights, […]

According to GLOBALSCIENCELLC, the last remnants of the Gothic tradition in sculpture were destroyed by Donatello (1386-1466), who for fifty years imposed his own art on Italy, as a national art. In his first works, the S. Giovanni Evangelista del Duomo and the Davide in marble from the National Museum of Florence, although not yet completely […]

Filippo Brunelleschi begins the reform, Leon Battista Alberti continues it; the strands of their art continued parallel during the Renaissance, never merging. Even when the followers of one follow the schemes of the other master, they move away from him for the spirit: Michelozzo Michelozzi (1396-1472) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442-1497), while taking inspiration from the type […]

According to ITYPEAUTO, the great achievements of the fifteenth century, in painting by Masaccio, in sculpture by Donatello, were made possible by the genius of Filippo Brunelleschi, inventor of architectural perspective. While in the north of Italy the flowery Gothic still dominated, Florentine architecture had already completed, with Filippo, the transition from the impetus of the […]

Purini, whose poetics of architecture as a ” disturbing apparition ”, through which he gave substance to a vision intense drawing, and whose love for history is at the same time a tension aimed at the withdrawal of fascinating archetypes and a contemporary desire for a “ farewell ” from it (a sort of detachment from the […]

Close to Portoghesi’s attitude can be placed the research of many architects of the young generation, who in Portoghesi have found not only a critical appreciation of particular depth through the work of the first series of the magazine Controspazio, but also direct operational stimuli. In particular, we should remember the proposals of C. D’Amato with […]

Among the works of other authors, who refer to the poetics of A. Rossi and more or less close to him in experience, we can mention the researches of the COPRAT group, in particular the popular housing in corso Garibaldi in Mantua (1981), strongly characterized by a severe volumetric cadence that isolates the individual lodgings, closed by […]

On the front of what can be defined as the ” dark ” side of Modern, that of architectural expressionism, some important personalities should be noted. In the early 1960s G. Michelucci – a leading figure in 20th century Italian architecture – arrived at a gesturality of spatial ” magic ” with the exalted naturalistic spatiality […]

To these must be added E. Zacchiroli, in the effective Depot for the Transport Company of Bologna (1983), and J. Lafuente, overall for Esso alla Magliana in Rome (1980), redundant in the structural emphasis. In terms of virtuous developments in structural or plant technology, an important component of constructivism, now assumed to be the basal […]

According to TOPSCHOOLSINTHEUSA, the case of G. Samonà and L. Quaroni are valid for all. Samonà, with his son Alberto, in the Bank of Italy in Padua (1971) defines the two main facades by exposing two different formal languages: rationalist in the one on the Riviera Tito, ” quotationist ” in the other, on the […]

According to USAERS, the reference to the different positions of Gabetti and Isola, of Rossi, of Portoghesi, of Grassi – the characters who most influenced the resistance to the modernist attempt of the Sixties to block the climate of ” free exit ”, initiated in Italy in the previous decade – allows us to hint […]

According to TRAVELATIONARY, the time span that goes from the mid-seventies to the early nineties in architecture sees an operational sentiment very different from that which had characterized the previous decades, reaching maturity in the world and in Italy Now that “time of change” is stabilizing, which at the beginning of the 1960s Ph. Johnson […]

The woods occupy about 49,800 sq km in Italy. (excluding chestnuts) of which just over 1500 belong to the state forest property; Italy, with a percentage of 16% of forests on the total area, is one of the poorest countries of forests in all of Europe, preceded only by Great Britain (4%), Holland (8%), from Denmark (9%). But […]

Among the textile plants, the most ancient one in Italy, flax, is by now of little importance; the cultivation of flax by fiber, spread in various parts of Italy (Sicily, Calabria, Abruzzo, Lazio, Lombardy, Sardinia), occupies limited areas and production tends to contract rather (23-25,000 quintals a year); a little more extensive, but nevertheless rapidly declining is […]

For the production of wine, Piedmont and Emilia are at the head today; followed by Campania, Tuscany, Puglia, Lombardy, Sicily and Veneto. The wine is mostly consumed in Italy; a few words will be said about the export of certain qualities of wine. More specifically Mediterranean cultivation is that of the olive tree, which in Italy is cultivated […]

According to THEMEPARKTOUR, Barley has now lost the importance it once had for food; the area currently cultivated amounts to an average of 230,000 hectares; production tends to rise due to the increase in annual yield (2.38 million quintals per year on the 1927-31 average, compared to 2.08 on the 1909-13 average). It is a crop of southern […]

According to THEFREEGEOGRAPHY, the area cultivated with cereals cannot be subject to notable variations in a country of ancient agricultural exploitation, like ours; it occupies 23.6% of the total territorial surface (average of the five-year period 1928-32). Wheat alone absorbs more than two thirds of this area, that is approximately 4.8-4.900.000 hectares, an area slightly higher than […]

Compared with the other two peninsulas of Mediterranean Europe, Italy appears to be in more favorable conditions from the point of view of land use, both due to the presence of a vast plain to the north (in which climatic conditions are also propitious, at least to some more essential herbaceous crops) and to other […]