When I first heard about L’Accademia della Crusca in Italy, during a lesson at school, I was not able to create a direct connection between the bran, la crusca, and the most important institution responsible for regulating the Italian language as well as the oldest linguistic academy in the world. I
“Un volcan sous la glace” From the 2nd of October 2013 till the 20th of January 2014, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris is dedicating an exhibition to the artist Félix Vallotton. A Swiss artist born in Lausanne in 1865, Félix Vallotton became a French citizen in 1900. After frequenting the studios of the postimpressionists and
If you ever need an extra reason to spend a weekend in Paris in the coming months, I can offer you a suggestion: “Etrusques. Un hymne à la vie”, Musée Maillol, Paris. 18 September 2013 – 9 February 2014. “The exhibition organized by Musée Maillol explores, in
The Macchiaioli, one of the most poetic movements of the second half of the nineteenth century, is very similar to the visual experiments of the Impressionist artists and contributed to the widespread influence of painting in that period. They were a group of Italian painters, mainly from