The month of November in the “Cycle of the Months”, Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento).

The month of October in the “Cycle of the Months”, Castello del Buonconsiglio (Trento).

Depero, Marinetti and Cangiullo wearing futurist vests in 1924.

Michelangelo: The Agony, The Ecstasy, and His Taste for Tortelli A Renaissance shopping list reveals Michelangelo's daily diet and the human side of genius

An unusual document sheds light on the daily life of #Michelangelo, the great #Renaissance genius: a shopping list written in his own hand.
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Giacomo Balla in his studio, wearing a Futurist suit.

Historia Minuta (@historiaminuta) The Incredible Journey of Clara, Europe’s Most Famous Rhinoceros In the mid-18th century, an unlikely celebrity became the talk of Europe: Clara, an Indian rhinoceros. Born around 1738 in Bengal, Cl...

In the mid-18th century, an unlikely celebrity became the talk of Europe: Clara, an Indian rhinoceros.
Read her story here:
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Historia Minuta (@historiaminuta) Clara's Carnival: When a Rhinoceros Enchanted Venice A Venetian crowd gathers, their carnival masks and cloaks creating an air of mystery as they encircle the massive form of Clara, the Indian rhinoc...

Pietro Longhi, **The Rhinoceros** (1751) housed at Museo del Settecento di ca’ Rezzonico (Venezia)
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This is the village of Ostia Antica.
It does in fact appear in the new season of #EmilyInParis, disguised as the village of Solitano.
I assume the latter name is loosely inspired by Solomeo, the Umbrian village "adopted" by Brunello Cucinelli.

Red as passion.
Bitter Campari | Marcello Dudovich | c1904
#ValentinesDay

Historia Minuta (@historiaminuta) Some time ago I visited an exhibition in Treviso, where a particularly thoughtful display placed the sumptuous portrait of Wally Toscanini (Alberto Martini, 1925) directly opposite the portrait of Cou...

She was the young daughter of the conductor Arturo Toscanini; he, a mature man of noble lineage, married and with children.
#ValentinesDay

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Detail of the Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. This is now being cleaned and it shows what one of the figures looks like after removing the patina. (photos by Alessandro Barbaresi, Tecnico analista Beni Culturali presso Musei Vaticani)

Detail of the Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. This is now being cleaned and it shows what one of the figures looks like after removing the patina. (photos by Alessandro Barbaresi, Tecnico analista Beni Culturali presso Musei Vaticani)

The Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. This is now being cleaned and it shows the scaffolding. (photos by Alessandro Barbaresi, Tecnico analista Beni Culturali presso Musei Vaticani)

A very thin patina was deposited over the years on the surface of “The Last Judgment’ by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.

🧽 This is now being cleaned - 🔎 Take a close look at the remarkable result!

🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #frescofriday #art #Italy #renaissance

Mulberry Street in Little Italy, New York City, c. 1900

Italian woman carrying an enormous empty dry-goods-box for some distance along Bleeker [Bleecker] Street. Used for kindlings.

New York, 1912.

Via Library of Congress

Italian immigrant family at Ellis Island c1910

Historia Minuta (@historiaminuta) Ludwig Passini's Antico Caffè Greco in Rome captures the atmosphere of one of the world's oldest coffee houses, established in 1760 and still operating today. The painting depicts the café's interior ...

Today, Rome’s Antico Caffè Greco is closed.
In 1856, Ludwig Passini painted it as a working place for artists and intellectuals.
Decades later, Giorgio de Chirico would sit at those same tables.
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It’s Carnival Thursday!
Would you rather spend it in Rome or in Venice?

"The Carnival in Rome" (1881), by José Benlliure y Gil
"Fat Thursday Celebration in the Piazzetta" (18th century), by Gabriele Bella

Photographs of two Italian immigrants wearing traditional costumes, taken by Augustus Sherman at Ellis Island, c. 1905.

1709 was the year of the Great Frost, and Venice froze.

People are portrayed skating on the lagoon, wrapped in cloaks: the scene looks light, almost playful.

But the reality was different: the same winter brought hunger, disease, and economic collapse across Europe.

A wonderfully unusual example of a 19th-century painted photograph. The bold, Van Gogh-esque, strokes perhaps imply a desire to pass the image off as a painting, but there are sections left entirely untouched: publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto was born #OnThisDay in 1944. He famously created stage costumes for David Bowie, including the black polyurethane 'Tokyo Pop' jumpsuit with exaggerated wide legs that was worn by Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in 1973. V&A collection. #fashionhistory

The Real Reason Silent Film Actors Looked So Strange YouTube video by Swofford

whoa, this is so cool. #FilmHistory #makeup

Maramaldo From captain of fortune to vintage insult

Some days ago, I came across a rather obsolete Italian word: maramaldo.
A quick look in the dictionary told me it means something like “someone taking advantage of the weak”.
The term comes from a certain Fabrizio Maramaldo, a Neapolitan mercenary captain active in sixteenth-century Italy.

Italia 1958, a futuristic car with Sputnik knockoff used by the Italian Communist Party during General Elections

Gioacchino Toma, Donna sdraiata che legge (Reclining woman reading), 1875

Like this…
Gioacchino Toma, Donna sdraiata che legge (Reclining woman reading), 1875

Photo of cauldron underneath an arch in Milan called the Arch of Peace.

The original Leonardo designs of 6 knots no longer exist but were copied in Dürer’s woodcuts, here is one of those as an example. Can be found in the British Museum.

🪢 🔥 Did you know that the design of the Olympic cauldron is a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci's celebrated knots?

☕ Leonardo had a historic connection with Milan where he was in the service of Ludovico Sforza, as an engineer, architect, sculptor & painter for 20 yrs.

#olympics 🗃️ #arthistory #art

Gerolamo Induno, Triste presentimento (1862), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milano)

In this painting, the Italian Risorgimento appears as a small object on a wall: a bust of Garibaldi, present but not central.
The real drama is private: a woman, a cramped room and an unread letter.
The title: "doleful premonition".

Italian laborer, Ellis Island (c1905) by Lewis Hine.

Inside Rome’s Best-Preserved Tombs: on the Via Latina YouTube video by Darius Arya Digs

(1211) Inside Rome’s Best-Preserved Tombs: on the Via Latina - YouTube
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Buried minerals reveal dirt about daily life in ancient Pompeii New secrets have been revealed about bathing culture in ancient Pompeii. Researchers have found mineral deposits under lava which suggest the city's famous aqueducts were influenced by the Greeks, tho...

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Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy - Communications Biology Ancient human DNA from Grotta della Monaca in reveals ancestry patterns, kinship-based burial practices, and evidence of a parent-offspring union in Bronze Age southern Italy.

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