08-18-2018, 08:33 AM
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It’s italpol, mr smarty pants and the Firenze italpol have the coolest hats.
Our new Airbnb has true Italian style, in some centuries old building but redone with exposed ancient refurbished ceilings and walls where some of the original peeks through and stained glass sliding doors.
Got caught in a thunderstorm and ducked into a really pricey cafe. Got lost. Saw some churches but not the pantheon we were looking for. Hit the local market for 3 bags of snacks - cheaper than our lunch.
We grabbed one last cappuccino & pastry at Revoire, an excellent caffe just outside the Uffizi. I highly recommend it. Stacy had a second cappuccino and they made a little bear face in the foam. Stacy was worried it was a pig at first because she went for seconds but it was clearly a cute little bear. Now we wonder what she would've gotten if she had a third.
There was a touristy Gladiator Museum at the plaza. I thought about it but it looked cheesey, like a Pier 39 tourist trap. It was $12 euros, which is what I paid for the Musee Armee in Paris. Seems ridiculous. I think there's a special exhibit of armor at Hadrian's tomb right now, at least according to some street banner i saw. Fingers crossed.
armi e potere nell'europa del rinascimento
Our new Airbnb has true Italian style, in some centuries old building but redone with exposed ancient refurbished ceilings and walls where some of the original peeks through and stained glass sliding doors.
Got caught in a thunderstorm and ducked into a really pricey cafe. Got lost. Saw some churches but not the pantheon we were looking for. Hit the local market for 3 bags of snacks - cheaper than our lunch.
We grabbed one last cappuccino & pastry at Revoire, an excellent caffe just outside the Uffizi. I highly recommend it. Stacy had a second cappuccino and they made a little bear face in the foam. Stacy was worried it was a pig at first because she went for seconds but it was clearly a cute little bear. Now we wonder what she would've gotten if she had a third.
There was a touristy Gladiator Museum at the plaza. I thought about it but it looked cheesey, like a Pier 39 tourist trap. It was $12 euros, which is what I paid for the Musee Armee in Paris. Seems ridiculous. I think there's a special exhibit of armor at Hadrian's tomb right now, at least according to some street banner i saw. Fingers crossed.
armi e potere nell'europa del rinascimento
Quote:eapons and power in Renaissance Europe
Castel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo Venezia
26 July 2018 - ArtCity Estate 2018 - Exhibition
26 July / 11 November 2018
Rome, Castel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo Venezia
edited by Mario ScaliniOpening on Wednesday 25th July, 7.30pm, Castel Sant'AngeloThe Polo Museale of Lazio directed by Edith Gabrielli organizes in Rome, in the double seat ofCastel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo di Venezia , an exhibition dedicated entirely to the world of weapons in the Renaissance age. The exhibition, curated by the specialist Mario Scalini, sees in the catalog the presence of Massimo Carlo Giannini.The weapons, always companions of life and death of Man, assumed right in the Renaissance an all-encompassing dimension, especially in Italy. The system of values that the weapons underwent, in fact, went so far beyond their concrete use, namely the wounding, killing the enemy or, on the contrary, defending oneself. In a society that sensed combat or at least the threat of struggle in recurrent or endemic terms, this system involved social and ritual, symbolic and iconographic aspects. In this way they include, among other things, tournaments and revelers, bright, spectacular and truculent self-representations of the aristocratic and, indeed, fighting class.Several factors contributed to this dimension. For example, advances in the field of technology were important: on its own, the rapid establishment of gunpowder gave rise to a sort of escalation of firearms - and of course adequate defensive countermeasures. No less weight had the geo-political structure: from 1494 onwards the Italian states became, in fact, places of confrontation and disputes for the great international powers, first of all Spain and France.The exhibition deals with every aspect of this complex interweaving of arms and men, mythology and representation of power. It takes into account, among other things, the long tradition of military textbooks, already in vogue in the Byzantine period, as well as some symbolic images of the time, which depict gentlemen and sometimes even armored ladies at all points. Castel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo Venezia are home to two of the most important cores in the world of historical weapons. Starting from these extraordinary collections, for the occasion restored and rearranged, a series of international loans and a refined exhibition make known to the specialist and the normal visitor of the museums a phenomenon that has remained for a long time in the darkness.TimetablesSant'Angelo castel
Every day 9.00am - 7.00pm
Until 9 September from Thursday to Sunday 9.00 - 23.30
The ticket office closes half an hour earlierPalazzo Venezia
Tuesday to Sunday 8.30am - 7.30pm
The ticket office closes an hour earlierTickets
During the ArtCity period a single ticket is set up that allows entry to Castel Sant'Angelo and one to Palazzo Venezia with a visit to the two sections of the exhibition.Castel Sant'Angelo and Palazzo Venezia
single whole € 15.00
single reduced € 7.50Only Palazzo Venezia
full € 10.00
reduced € 5.00Admission is free on the first Sunday of each month at both sites.Info and reservations
+39 06 32810410
(Monday to Friday 9 am-6 pm and Saturday 9 am to 1 pm)
The entire project of ArtCity 2018 can be consulted on the site
www.art-city.it
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