A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
It’s like many cats: lazy, messy, unpredictable, but adorable. Yet special, like all felines can be. His name is Pixel, it lives with Cecilia&Fermo for a strange case and one day she decided to turn it into the protagonist of “flash” inspired to cat’s life in its many facets. Which color, size or sex is
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Liberty. A style for modern Italy: the great exhibition of Forlì
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Liberty, a style internationally spread, called Art Nouveau in France, Jugendstil in German and Central European area and Modern Style in Anglo-Saxon countries. Between nineteenth and twentieth century the new style and new “taste” yearned to overcome historicism and naturalism that had dominated much of the nineteenth century. The recently unified Italy in fact aspires
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Cats and art: iconography of a household deity (part three)
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Soon the Fathers of the newborn Church decided to get rid of the Mothers of ancient cults, fearing that they could hide assertive aspirations that could undermine their power. To ensure that charges of idolatry would find greater foundation, Christian theologians established a division between good and evil even in animal world and cat ended
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Shots of silence. Riccardo Varini and photography in Reggio Emilia
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Today it’s snowing. Big and light flakes that slowly cover roofs, trees and the resting fields. A photographer will certainly go out with his camera, he will reach the hills and capture light and greatly charming images. This photographer is called Riccardo Varini and he made of snow one of his muses, so as to
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Book therapy
Wednesday, 12 February 2014
Hippocrates would be skeptical, Kafka would be less, Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin believe it strongly: you can be cured with books. They are the authors of the volume The novel cure – An A-Z of Literary Remedies where they talk about book therapy, the art, so to speak, to treat themselves with books. The
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Selfie is trendy
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
The Oxford University and its software to test the popularity of the new terms introduced into English language, chose “selfie” as a new word of 2013 and decided to put it in the Oxford Dictionary. The frequency of this word in English language has increased by 17,000% compared to 2012 and is the first English
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Mathematics engravings. Reggio Emilia pays homage to Escher
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
It was the early twenties when a young Dutch engraver, to recover from a deep depression, arrived in Italy and, in a kind of twentieth-century Grand Tour, visited cities and regions that made him fall in love. Siena, Abruzzo, villages in Calabria perched on the mountains, they became subject of the landscape woodcuts of Maurits
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Curiosity e-book: Toxophilus, archery and philosophy
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
In ancient culture and poetry, archery played a major role. Without resorting to mythology, great historical importance (not just for fans of archery) is played by the Toxophilus, a singular treatise in dialogue form published in 1545 in London by Roger Ascham. Greek scholar and tutor of Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I Tudor,
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Mathematics engravings. Reggio Emilia pays homage to Escher
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
It was the early twenties when a young Dutch engraver, to recover from a deep depression, arrived in Italy and, in a kind of twentieth-century Grand Tour, visited cities and regions that made him fall in love. Siena, Abruzzo, villages in Calabria perched on the mountains, they became subject of the landscape woodcuts of Maurits
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Hugo Pratt, nemo propheta in patria
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Hugo Pratt is one of the authors who contributed the most to maximize the potential of comics world by renewing the rules of different genres through his ability to mix history, fantasy, reality, fiction, adventure and humor. In 1945, Mauro Fastinelli and Alberto Ongaro founded the magazine Albo Uragano (Hurricane album) – later known as
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