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Veduta di San Michele, San Cristoforo e Murano di Canaletto, isole sospese tra acqua e storia

View of San Michele, San Cristoforo and Murano ...

The painting “View of the Isles of San Michele, San Cristoforo, and Murano” by Canaletto offers a panorama of the Venetian basin as seen from the Fondamenta Nuove, looking toward...

View of San Michele, San Cristoforo and Murano ...

The painting “View of the Isles of San Michele, San Cristoforo, and Murano” by Canaletto offers a panorama of the Venetian basin as seen from the Fondamenta Nuove, looking toward...

Dieci Lupe per dieci Porte: Roma si reinventa

Dieci Lupe per dieci Porte: Roma si reinventa

Le Mura Aureliane ospitano “Le 10 Lupe di Roma”: dieci opere contemporanee reinterpretano il mito della Lupa Capitolina alle storiche porte di Roma. Un percorso d’arte partecipativa tra identità, innovazione...

Dieci Lupe per dieci Porte: Roma si reinventa

Le Mura Aureliane ospitano “Le 10 Lupe di Roma”: dieci opere contemporanee reinterpretano il mito della Lupa Capitolina alle storiche porte di Roma. Un percorso d’arte partecipativa tra identità, innovazione...

Mappa del sistema copernicano di Cellarius: un ponte fra scienza e tradizione astrologica

Map Showing the Copernican System of Planetary ...

The “Map Showing the Copernican System of Planetary Orbits” by Andreas Cellarius, published in 1660 in the atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, depicts the heliocentric model of the universe proposed by Copernicus. At...

Map Showing the Copernican System of Planetary ...

The “Map Showing the Copernican System of Planetary Orbits” by Andreas Cellarius, published in 1660 in the atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, depicts the heliocentric model of the universe proposed by Copernicus. At...

Mappa dell'emisfero australe del cielo di Cellarius: viaggio fra astronomia e mitologia

Celestial Map of the Southern Sky by Cellarius:...

The “Map of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere” by Andreas Cellarius, published in 1660 as part of the celebrated atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, depicts the celestial vault of the southern hemisphere superimposed...

Celestial Map of the Southern Sky by Cellarius:...

The “Map of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere” by Andreas Cellarius, published in 1660 as part of the celebrated atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, depicts the celestial vault of the southern hemisphere superimposed...

La Mappa dell'Europa di Mercator e il rapporto fra scienza e potere

Mercator's Map of Europe and the relationship b...

Gerard Mercator’s “Map of Europe” (1554) presents itself as a monumental cartographic work: the original was engraved on fifteen copper plates, which, when assembled, reached the impressive dimensions of 132...

Mercator's Map of Europe and the relationship b...

Gerard Mercator’s “Map of Europe” (1554) presents itself as a monumental cartographic work: the original was engraved on fifteen copper plates, which, when assembled, reached the impressive dimensions of 132...

Mappa del mondo di Visscher: dalla tecnica incisoria alle allegorie mitologiche

Visscher's World Map: from the engraving techni...

Nicolaes Visscher’s "Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula" presents a double-hemisphere map dominated by two large central circles. The western hemisphere, positioned on the left, depicts the Americas, while the...

Visscher's World Map: from the engraving techni...

Nicolaes Visscher’s "Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula" presents a double-hemisphere map dominated by two large central circles. The western hemisphere, positioned on the left, depicts the Americas, while the...