Culture
A Bergamo workshop from the first half of the 18th century
A pair of kneelers from the FineArt by Di Mano in Mano collections offers a more complete picture of the production of a Bergamo workshop,
Categoria: Processing and Techniques
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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
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
Culture
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
Culture
From drawing to marble: Antonio Canova
Processing and Techniques Marble sculpture is one of the most complex artistic forms. Its realization, unlike terracotta, in fact involved a subtractive type of processing.
Culture
From tables to canvases, the birth of oil painting
Processing and Techniques Too often a pictorial work of art is considered as a two-dimensional object, where the importance is given only to the aesthetics
Art movements and styles
Humanism: the invention of the book
Processing and Techniques What is considered by many to be the most beautiful book in the history of printing, the mysterious Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was published
