A surge of rainwater into a Roman aqueduct brought muddy water spilling into the Italian capital's iconic -- and newly ...
We’d just spent 2 weeks traveling through Spain before taking a ridiculously cheap flight from Seville to Pisa for 9 euros ...
The catalogue - online from today with the first 94 works catalogued for the Middle Ages - presents 560 entries in Italian ...
It’s the most boring and thankfully also the shortest month of the year. Don’t worry. There is plenty to perk you up and before you know it will be June! Visit the palace for free People who were born ...
F or centuries, Rome, Italy, has been a city of great importance. Once the center of the ancient Roman empire, today it’s one of the most popular cities in the world for tourist ...
Celebrating its 71st edition this year, the Winter Show remains one of the oldest and most distinguished fairs, offering a quintessentially sumptuous Upper East Side experience. Staged in the ...
The Triton sculpture now at the Rijksmuseum was created by Bernini as a study for the Fountain of the Moor on Rome’s Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X in the 1650s. In it ...
The work is a terracotta model of the statue Bernini made for a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome in 1653. It then came into the possession of an Italian family. The sculptor was an important ...
referenced in an invoice from the artist in 1655—represented Bernini’s initial ideas for a marble statue for a fountain on Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most important squares, commissioned ...
and made the celebrated Fontana dei quattro fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), located at the heart of Piazza Navona in Rome. The pope subsequently also commissioned Bernini to embellish the two ...