(1922–1993) Filmography as Director: Pane e cioccolata 1974 Director: Franco Brusati Starring: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina Filmography as Screenwriter: Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey Born August 4 1922 Milano (Italia)…
Bellotto, Bernardo (1721–1780) Vaprio d’Adda 1744 Oil on canvas, 64.1 x 99.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York By carefully staging the sunlight hitting the facades rising above the Adda River, Bellotto picks out the north Italian villages of…
Founded: 1894 Closed: 2001 Gallerie d’Italia – Milano: 2011 Opened: 2012 Location: Piazza della Scala 6, Milano Website: https://gallerieditalia.com/it/milano/ Collection: • Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916): Tre donne (1909-1910) See also: • Milano (Italia) | Museums
(1936–2014) Filmography as Actress: Il Gattopardo 1963 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale Born April 29 1936 Milano (Italia) Died November 13 2014 Milano (Italia) Occupation Actress
(1906–1976) Luchino Visconti di Modrone, conte di Lonate Pozzolo Filmography as Director: Bellissima 1951 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari Senso 1954 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Alida Valli, Farley Granger Le Notti Bianche 1957 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni …
(1911–1979) Giovanni Rota Rinaldi Works: • 8½ (1963) • Amarcord (1973) • Boccaccio 70 (1962) • Death on the Nile (1978) • Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) • I Clowns (1971) • Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) • Il Gattopardo…
Guercino (1591-1666) Abramo ripudia Agar e Ismaele (Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael) 1657 Oil on canvas, 115 x 152 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano Guercino sets the story of Abraham, aged 100, casting out the slave Hagar and their…
(1502–1546) VI Marquis of Pescara and II of Vasto Governor of the Duchy of Milan (1538–1546) Alfonso d’Avalos in Art: Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Allocuzione di Alfonso d’Avalos 1540–1541 Museo del Prado, Madrid Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ritratto di Alfonso D’Avalos 1533 Getty Center, Los…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del padiglione (Madonna of the Pavilion) c.1490 Tempera on panel, diameter 65 cm Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milano This splendid tondo by Sandro Botticelli, executed with the tip of a brush with a miniaturistic attention, proposes an apparently conventional religious…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Madonna del Libro (Madonna of the Book) 1480–1481 Tempera on panel, 58 x 39.6 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano This painting depicts the Virgin and Child reading a book that is only partially visible. The layout and decoration of…