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Il Teatro del Silenzio in Tuscany, Italy. 

Aperol

Gentian-based aperitif | 750 ml | Italy

Emanuele Luzzati (Italian, 1921 - 2007)       Sketch for Petruccio, from “The Taming of the Shrew” by Shakespeare, N/D

Mixed media on paper, 105,5 x 69 cm      

Andy Warhol, Vesuvius, Naples, ca. 1985

Joseph Wright, Vesuvius in Eruption, 1774

Andy Warhol, Vesuvius 365, 1985

Villa La Saracena (1955-57) in Santa Marinella, Italy, by Luigi Moretti

Something's pulsing inside Mahmood's underwear... 👀

The Bibliotheca Corviniana was the second largest library of the Renaissance after the Vaticana. The Hungarian king Mathias Corvinus (1458-1490) compiled it at great expense, for which he had magnificently decorated manuscripts produced, mainly in Italy. Characteristic are the mostly splendid illuminations of the manuscripts, the leather bindings decorated with gold and the velvet and silk bindings. About 200 "corvines" are still recorded. Take a look at the beautiful works, digitalized on the website Bibliotheca Corvina. 

Calling for Applications: Applications for the 2015 Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme are now open!

Each year, the Africa Centre, provides artists with the unique opportunity to spend four to six weeks fully dedicated to developing their craft. This year through partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Kenya, Spain, Tanzania and the United States we are proud to offer thirteen unique residencies for our 2015 AIR programme.

AIR is seeking applications from high caliber African artists who are provocative, innovative, socially engaged and stretching the boundaries of their artistic practice.

The AIR partners select an artist from a short list provided by the Africa Centre, for one of their 2015 or 2016 residencies. The costs of the residency and round-trip airfare are included in each residency award made.

The residencies are available to artists in different stages of their career development (from emerging to late career) across all disciplines: visual arts, performing arts; creative & literary arts; film; music & curatorial practice. Each residency offers a distinct structure, set of requirements and duration.

Read the application guidelines for further information about the thirteen residency opportunities and apply today.

Deadline for application submissions is 30th September 2015.

Download the Application Guidelines.

Download the Application Form.

Detail of Gino Severini, ‘Ballerina’, ca. 1957, oil on canvas, private collection

Detail of Gianni Monnet’s Construction – 1946, oil on canvas, Collection MA*GA Art Museum, Gallarate, Italy // image © colourliving

LUCA (2021) dir. Enrico Casarosa

Pier Angeli at Villa Adriana, Tivoli, Italy, 1968

Galla Placidia Mausoleum

Ravenna/Italy

photos cjmn

incredible_europe

Church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence, Italy

Lamb of God mosaic in presbytery of Basilica of San Vitale (built A.D. 547) Ravenna, Italy.

Jacopo Pontormo (1494 - 1557), detail (said to depict Fertility) of the Lunetta di Vertumnus e Pomona, 1519-21, fresco at the Villa Medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Italy     

(slightly enhanced image)

The trompe-l'œil frescoed vault of the loggia in the Prior’s apartments at Certosa di San Martino was painted by Domenico Garguilo, aka Micco Spadaro c. 1642.

National Museum of San Martino, Naples

Photos by Charles Reeza