Shifting Focus at Gucci
Alessandro Michele was named Creative Director of fashion giant Gucci.
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Mayor Nardella of Florence Meets with Mayor De Blasio
Mayor of Florence Dario Nardella visited Manhattan in early March, 2015 to encourage investment in Florence through real estate and tourism ventures.
New IACC President Introduced
Alberto MILANI, CEO of Buccellati INC., is the new president of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC).
Largest Amount of Stolen Italian Artifacts Recovered
Italy’s Carabinieri recovered €50 million worth of stolen national treasures in January 2015.
Milan’s Expo 2015 Aims to Direct the World’s Attention to Nutrition and Food Resources
From May 1 to October 31 2015, Milan hosts a world’s fair with the theme of “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.”
A Masterpiece of Sculpture – and Art Restoration
Tullio Lombardo’s Adam is the only signed piece created to decorate the colossal tomb of Venice’s Doge Andrea Vendramin and one of the few Renaissance masterpieces outside of Italy.
The Capricci of Callot
By Veronica Maria WHITE
A remarkable French Baroque artist helps establish a genre
Fotografia Italiana Ora
By David A. LEWIS
We live in an age saturated by printed photographs, motion pictures, broadcast media, and digital dis- plays. A constant stream of photographic images variously delight, confront, and perplex us.
Mimmo Jodice
Mimmo JODICE
“All my work is born out of a moment of emotion, all my photography is the result of a particular encounter that determines my unique state of being. It’s as is the forms, the objects, the landscapes and the light were preparing for me, always awaiting me. Beneath an appearance of normalcy, my works hold and evoke a deep stirring inside of me for all that has occurred or will occur; and reveal memories of times past.”
Franco Fontana
Franco FONTANA
“Taking photographs is an act of knowledge – it is a taking possession. What we photograph are not images but reproductions of ourselves. Creativity does not illustrate or imitate. It interprets, thus becoming the quest for an ideal truth. Creative photography does not reproduce but interprets by making the invisible visible.”