The Villa d'Este in Tivoli, with its palace and garden, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of Renaissance culture at its mo ... More
The Villa d'Este in Tivoli, with its palace and garden, is one of the most remarkable and comprehensive illustrations of Renaissance culture at its most refined. Its innovative design along with the architectural components in the garden (fountains, ornamental basins, etc.) make this a unique example of an Italian 16th-century garden. The Villa d'Este, one of the first giardini delle meraviglie , was an early model for the development of European gardens.
The Gallery occupies the entire first and second floors of the large building built between 1560 and 1580 on a project by Giorgio Vasari: it is one of ... More
The Gallery occupies the entire first and second floors of the large building built between 1560 and 1580 on a project by Giorgio Vasari: it is one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures and paintings (from the Middle Ages to the modern age). The collections of paintings of the fourteenth and Renaissance contain some absolute masterpieces of art of all times: just remember the names of Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, as well as masterpieces of European painting, especially German, Dutch and Flemish. No less important in the panorama of Italian art is the collection of statuary and busts of antiquity of the Medici family. The collection graces the corridors of the Gallery and includes ancient Roman sculptures, copies from lost Greek originals.
This is a chapel in Vatican city in Rome. It was built between 1473 and 1481 under order of Pope Sixtus Seth, and is famous for Michelangelo's mural " ... More
This is a chapel in Vatican city in Rome. It was built between 1473 and 1481 under order of Pope Sixtus Seth, and is famous for Michelangelo's mural "The Last Judgment" on the wall.