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Bronze sculptures and lost wax casting
Processing and Techniques Bronze is one of the most popular materials for making sculptures or plastic objects. Its use must be traced back to the
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The Portrait in Italian painting
Processing and Techniques The will to pass on one’s image to posterity has always been present in man. Since Roman antiquity, emperors were represented in
Culture
The Code of Cultural Heritage
Processing and Techniques Following the 1999 Consolidated Law on cultural heritage, which limited itself to gathering and harmonizing the previous legislation (see the article History
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History of the protection of cultural heritage
Processing and Techniques The protection of cultural heritage is an action that is still the basis of the legislative discipline today. Attention to the danger
Culture
The Campi brothers
Protagonists Giulio, Antonio and Vincenzo Campi were three artists, brothers, active in the Lombardy of the sixteenth century. Painters in great demand both by religious
Culture
Tapestries
Processing and Techniques If already in previous eras it was not unusual to wallpaper the walls with refined coatings, also with the aim of insulating
Art movements and styles
Empire
Art movements and styles The key event of the eighteenth century was the French Revolution, which completely changed society, culture and, therefore, also its artistic
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The diagnostic techniques of a work of art
Processing and Techniques As already seen in a previous in-depth article, a work of art is also an object with its own physicality. Often diagnostic
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The Universal Exhibitions
Exhibitions and Events 1851 was a fundamental year not only for the history of art but also for the history of industries and crafts. In
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Giocondo Albertolli
Protagonists Giocondo Albertolli was one of the protagonists of the neoclassical style, an exponent of that culture of light that characterized the arts at the
