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Renaissance Art And Artist In Italy

Posted in Uncategorized | August 20th, 2011

Journeying Across Europe From Cheap Hotels

There is a rail network amongst the resorts in Europe with cheap hotels that links Europe to the Mediterranean and on to Scandinavia. If you’ve grown bored of summer holidays by the sea, now is the perfect time to take out an InterRail Global Pass and explore Europe. With 30 countries opened up by InterRail, there should be something for everyone.

Unfortunately, InterRail passes aren’t valid on British trains. This means that you’ll have to book a cheap flight, ferry, or Eurostar ticket to get you to and from mainland Europe. Upon arriving in Europe, the world is your oyster, as the pass is valid in 30 countries.

Europe is becoming increasingly well-known for staging some of the best music festivals worldwide; one of the best being the Spanish Festival Internacional de Benicassim. The entertaining mixture of music, theatre, art, fashion and cinema is staged in a beautiful location. Once partied out, it is worth looking into hotel deals and booking yourself into Barcelona where you’ll be able to explore one of the cultural centres of Europe. Sites to see include Gaudi’s Park Guell, a garden city created by the artist, the Miro museum as well as the famous shopping centre Las Ramblas.

Art lovers will love Florence with its many art galleries and Renaissance monuments celebrating its cultural history. One of the most important – not just in Florence but in Italy – is The Uffizi Gallery. This 16^th century gallery, constructed by the Medici, has works inside of Caravaggio, da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.

There are plenty of hotels to choose from in Dubrovnik, and most come with their own private beach. If you are looking for cheap hotels in the city, the Hotel Adriatic comes highly recommended. Close to Lapad beach, the Hotel Adriatic is also nearby some of Dubrovnik’s most famous tourist attractions, including the Pile Gate and Onofrio’s Fountain.

Frescoes in cloister by High Renaissance painter Il Sodoma Photo Mugs

Frescoes in cloister by High Renaissance painter Il Sodoma (Giovanni Antonio Bazzi) painted between 1505 and 1508, of the life of St. Benedict (San Benedetto), self portrait of the artist posing with his badgers, Monte Oliveto Maggiore Abbey, Tuscany, Italy, Europe….

Masters of Illusion [VHS]

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This documentary hosted by James Burke is a fascinating examination of the concept of how we see things, specifically how images that appear to our eyes to be three-dimensional are rendered convincingly on flat surfaces. Starting out in a movie studio special effects lab, Burke explains how visual illusions practiced today actually began during the Renaissance, when painters first mastered the ski…