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In the early 21st century, on 11 September 2007, the 210th anniversary of the Napoleonic looting of the painting from Italy in 1797, a full-sized (6.77 m x 9.94 m) computer-generated (1,591 files), digital facsimile of The Wedding Feast at Cana was hung in the Palladian refectory of the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore, which the Giorgio Cini ...
Peter Thornton, The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400–1600. (New York: Abrams) 1991 "Cassone - Italian Renaissance Marriage Chest" in Eclectique, 23 September 2009. Helen Webberley, "Marriage, fertility and courtly love in Renaissance Italy: cassone" in Art and Architecture, mainly, 1 February 2011
The building includes the Cappella della Maddalena (Magdalen Chapel) with extensive but damaged frescos by Giotto, including a full-length portrait of Dante. The Bargello opened as a national museum ( Museo Nazionale del Bargello ) in 1865, [ 2 ] displaying the largest Italian collection of Gothic and Renaissance sculptures (14–17th century).
Casket with couples, traces of polychromy, certosina work and naked winged boys above "Wedding casket", with certosina work, and missing parts showing wooden framework, c. 1390–1410 The Embriachi workshop ( Italian : Bottega degli Embriachi ) was an important producer of objects in carved ivory and carved bone , set in a framework of inlaid wood.
In 1979 the American film director Joseph Losey filmed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Don Giovanni in Villa La Rotonda and the Veneto region of Italy. The film was nominated for several César Awards in 1980 including Best Director, and has generally been praised as one of the finer cinematic adaptations of opera.
Location Museo de San Petronio, Bologna Joseph and Potiphar's Wife is the only securely attributed work in marble completed by Properzia de' Rossi , the only woman artist in the Italian Renaissance mentioned in the first edition of Giorgio Vasari 's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects .
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova being taught the Cecchetti method by renowned Italian ballet teacher Enrico Cecchetti. Italian ballet is the training methods [citation needed] and aesthetic qualities seen in classical ballet in Italy. Ballet has a long history in Italy, and it is widely believed that the earliest predecessor of modern-day ballet ...
The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael.Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph.