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On TV Tonight's "DaVinci's Demons" finds Leonardo facing off with Vlad Dracula as he investigates the Book of Leaves in the Count's homeland. Meanwhile in Italy, Lorenzo and Piero have a meeting with the Duke of Urbino to ask for military assistance
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Charles Hope was the director of the Warburg Institute from 2001 until 2010. At the National Gallery Charles Hope Successful artists are usually attracted to major cities, where reputations are most easily made and commissions most abundant...Born in
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A robbery over the Easter weekend at Rome's Villa Giulia Etruscan museum led to calls Tuesday for improved measures to secure Italy's culture ministry. "It took a multimillion (euro) theft to point attention to one of the longstanding problems that
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If the director of the National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, can admit that he had never heard of the 16th-century Italian artist Federico Barocci before he studied for his doctorate, then I suppose that the rest of us can be excused for the same failing.
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Divine inspiration detail from Federico Barocci's Stigmatisation of St Francis (1594-5)...Photo: Palazzo Ducale, Urbino/bridgemanart.com Exhibition of the week: Barocci Brilliance and Grace You certainly can't accuse the National Gallery of crass
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Barocci/Musee du Louvre If there is a greater thrill than discovering a lost work by an old master it is perhaps discovering a lost old master instead. This is essentially what the National Gallery is presenting with its new exhibition of the work
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Sistine Madonna, the work of Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The celebration of Raphael's late works continues this year with exhibitions in Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, and Frankfurt. Of all the exhibits honoring the apogee of this genius's works,
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The possible opening of a McDonald's fast-food restaurant in the historic center of Urbino is stirring up lots of controversy in this Italian town. While not yet official, rumor has it that the golden arches will soon be opening a location on the
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Rome, November 14 Italian researchers on Wednesday announced they had found a key mechanism in the functioning of the HIV virus, a turn which experts say could lead to the development of an effective vaccine against the disease. Center, found that a
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Raphael, superstar of the Renaissance, died at just 37; A new Louvre show revisits his exhilarating last work Self-portrait with Giulio Romano' (1519-20) A revelatory show that has just opened at the Louvre, Raphael, The Last Years , begins exactly
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