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Media in category "Featured pictures of Italy" The following 154 files are in this category, out of 154 total. "The School of Athens" by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino.jpg 3,820 × 2,964; 2.35 MB
One of the most important Italian architects of the 20th century. Giovanni Muzio (1893–1982), architect. He was the most influential member of the group of Italian architects associated with the Novecento Italiano. Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960), architect and urban theorist most closely associated with Italy's fascist government.
This phenomenon, widespread in all continents, is better known as "Italian Sounding", consisting in the use of words as well as images, colour combinations (the Italian tricolour), geographical references, brands evocative of Italy to promote and market agri-food products which in reality have nothing to do with Italian cuisine. [158]
2. Pizza Napoletana e Romana. Besides pasta, pizza has to be the second most popular Italian food. But the pizza in Italy is very different from American pizza.
Italy, [a] officially the Italian Republic, [b] is a country in Southern [12] and Western Europe. [13] [c] It consists of a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. [15]
Altare della Patria View of the artistic and architectural works present in the Vittoriano. The Vittorio Emanuele II Monument (Italian: Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II) or Vittoriano, or also Altare della Patria (English: Altar of the Fatherland), is a monument built in honor of Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a unified Italy, located in Rome, Italy. [16]
Arte Povera an artistic movement that originated in Italy in the 1960s, combining aspects of conceptual, minimalist, and performance art, and making use of worthless or common materials such as earth or newspaper, in the hope of subverting the commercialization of art. The phrase is Italian, and means literally, "impoverished art."
Barbana, Italy: Pope Pius IX Madonna del Rosario di Piansano [101] 4 October 1863 Piansano: Pope Pius IX Madonna della Apparizione 11 October 1863 Pellestrina: Pope Pius IX Maria Santissima Consolatrice degli Afflitti 8 March 1865 Santa Maria del Suffragio, Rome: Pope Pius IX Madre del Perpetuo Soccorso: 23 June 1867: Sant'Alfonso di Liguori ...