A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 01 October 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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Mermaids? They are real…
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
Elissa Piccinini lives and works in Parma; Professor of Italian, Latin and Greek Language and Literature, she is also a scholar of the evolutionary path that the figures of Greek and Latin folklore have suffered in the transition to Christian literature. In his book, The Mermaids Exists (Ottolibri editions) tells the story of these women-the
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Resplendent with gold and color. Three precious manuscripts in Bologna
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
In the middle of the fifteenth century, the lord of Ferrara, Borso d’Este, wanted a sumptuous Bible decorated with splendid miniatures to be made. He worked on it for six years, from 1455 to 1461, a team of artists, among the most famous of the time, as Taddeo Crivelli and Franco dei Russi, illuminators that
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Marco Galli, the cats’ photographer
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
Marco Galli is a “pet photographer” – recently he became professional in all respects – and works as official photographer to the expo FIAF in Northern Italy. He has a studio suitable for cats and he likes to go for colonies and catteries (in the second case for free). I discovered his existence on Facebook,
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Fermoeditore e-books now online!
Wednesday, 01 October 2014
On October 2014, Fermoeditore e-books arrive in online store. The three titles (in pdf format for a range of cost-effectiveness and universality of reading) will be launched on offer at the price of € 0.99 from 1st to 15th October. In this post, we present in detail The disappearance of the kitchen, of which you
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Fear in black and white: Hitchcock in Parma
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
After the great success in Milan last year, the exhibition Alfred Hitchcock in Universal Pictures movies moved to Parma on the 50th anniversary of the film Marnie; the new layout, renewed and enriched, is open until 9th November 2014 in the elegant rooms of the Palace of the Governor. The exhibition is realized with the
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Atelier. Massimo Lagrotteria
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The background is often dark, it occupies only part of the canvas surface and the black paint with drops trickles and smears on not painted areas. Brush strokes are broad and smooth, fast and accurate, immaterial and real at the same time. To Massimo Lagrotteria (Carpi, 1972) painting is an intimate necessity, a need that
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Of cats and art: La Romieu and the village of stone cats
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
On the Camino de Compostela, in an area that saw alternating exploits of Cathars and Templars, dotted with monasteries, collegiate churches, cathedrals, in 1062 two German monks returning from a pilgrimage to Rome decided to devote the rest of their lives to prayer and founded the hermitage de la Romieu. We are in Gascony, in
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A Pixel with mustache
Wednesday, 17 September 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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Design in 400 parole: Venice in a bottle
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
You walk placidly, you’re in Venice, when you stop dead on your track and come back, as if something were calling you, some sort of subliminal message in your walk… a few steps and you’re before that white shop window which, as it seems, is already stamped in your mind, maybe it’s for the rainbow