Roma

Through a selection of masterpieces from the most important museums in the world, the exhibition compares the paths of two absolute stars of the Italian Renaissance, Antonio Allegri called Correggio (1489-1534) and Francesco Mazzola called Parmigianino (1503-1540). Thanks to the formidable talent of these two artists, the city of Parma became the beginning of the sixteenth century, an artistic center able to fully compete with the great Italian art capitals like Rome, Florence and Venice. Correggio went to Parma at the end of the second decade of the sixteenth century, when it was already at the peak of his career,…

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Rome, March 15, 2016 at 16:00 and at 17:00 will be the Ides of March, the day of the killing of Julius Caesar. In memory of the historical event, in ‘immediate proximity Area Sacra di Largo Argentina (due to renovations) The Gruppo Storico Romano for the XIII edition, offers the historic commemoration of the tragic events of March 15, 44 BC Idi_di_marzo_gruppo_storico_romano-The commemoration, in historical clothing, with strictly philological reconstruction, is divided into three scenes. In the first Marco Antonio, Cato, Cicero, senators and tribunes of the people, will be the protagonists of the Senate at the end of the…

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Rome free evening concerts at the Conservatory Santa Cecilia


Opens Saturday, February 20 and until 09 April, in the Conservatory of Music Academic Hall “Santa Cecilia” (Via dei Greci, 18), the third edition of the Festival “A body for Roma” designed by Giorgio Carnini and promoted by the Camerata Italica, in collaboration with the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” and, this year, the University Concert Institution (IUC). The concerts are free and evening The festival is sponsored by the Lazio Region, the City of Rome and the Dante Alighieri Society, it is part of a larger project that tends to draw public attention and the institutions on…

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(Italiano) Roma Via Giulia


Roma Via Giulia : Situated at the center of the city between the district of Trastevere and Campo dei Fiori, in the Middle Ages the road was called “magistralis” because it reputedly one main road, although winding and muddy. Sixtus IV della Rovere, in the plan of reorganization of the city, rebuilt in 1478 this street called the Via Giulia “mercatoria” because it linked the high financial potential area (Piazza di Ponte S. Angelo) with the markets of Campo de ‘Fiori and Piazza Navona. But it was in 1508 that Pope Julius II della Rovere he designed, with Bramante, the…

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