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Enrico de Iulis

Enrico lives in Rome, is 44 years old, is an art historian and has a degree in glottodidactics. He’s been working as a guide with the most important roman cultural associations and he taught art history and artistic technical language at IED (Higher Institute of Design). He has published several papers about art history and glottodidactics applied to art history.

Rome, 1911. The inauguration of Giuseppe Sacconi's Vittoriano is about to be accomplished, Sacconi has been dead for six years now, but the architects working with him earlier, alongside Gaetano Koch and Pio Piacentini, have completed the work. For ten years, however, Piazza Venezia, the great promenade in front of the monument, had witnessed an ur...

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The Bourbon Royal residences in Campania have been finding a new life in the recent months, thanks to a great job of synergy between the Campania region and the Italian Ministry of Culture. It is a group of more than twenty sites, all built between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth by order of Charles of B...

2002

Last fall a news bounced in the newspapers throughout Italy and particularly in the specialized ones in the artistic field: the Fondazione Giulio e Giovanna Sacchetti donated the portrait of the ancestor Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti to the Galleria Borghese Museum in Rome. The donation makes sense from a philological point of view, and is linke...

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Prato is a small town in the heart of Tuscany, known by all for its textile production. Its proximity to Florence and its renowned beauties always penalized the rise of a tourist traffic. But at the end of the eighties of last century a virtuous circle made by many collectors, the municipality's desire to emerge and a great insight in focusing on m...

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In the fall of 2015, twenty Italian national museums changed their directors through a competition, which let many high profile international art leaders, for the first, time some of them not Italians, reach the top positions of these institutions and what unpublished.

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The tragic earthquake in central Italy that lasted all summer in different waves, created a real disaster for the historical and artistic heritage of the affected areas, of course besides the distressing news for the population and for the victims. The earthquake zone is closely linked to the medieval Romanesque art that radiates throughout Europe...

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  WTI Magazine #85    2016 November 21Author : Enrico de Iulis      Translation by:   Italy has a network of museums that has been recently highlighted by the tourist guides, little known even by the most frequent art visitors: it is the great and diverse proposal of Diocesan Museums. Maybe because they are associated with an idea of monotonous...

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  WTI Magazine #72    2015 November 13Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   During the Italian Renaissance it wasn't uncommon to decorate rooms, halls or courtrooms with an astrological subject. The works of the "Palazzo della Ragione" in Padua survived to this day. This calendar and astrological deco...

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  WTI Magazine #66    2015 August, 21Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   In Caprarola, a small town in the northern part of Lazio, in the heart of Italy, there is one of the five most interesting palace of Italy. It's the Farnese Palace. The Farnese were a prominent family in the history of the Rena...

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  WTI Magazine #26    2014 Apr, 18Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   On 13 April the Catacombs of Saints Peter and Marcellino in Rome have been reopened to the public. This is really one of the best news that we could tell you, because the events of this funerary complex are very exciting and promise well for countless other archaeo...

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  WTI Magazine #25    2014 Apr, 11Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by:   If there is a gray area in the common people's attention to the history of art, this is definitely one that covers the artistic production of 1800. If the painting, thanks to the romantic current that led to the testimonies of great historical and literary events o...

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  WTI Magazine #23    2014 Mar, 28Author : Enrico De Iulis      Translation by: Alessandra Bitetti   The last few years mark the beginning of a new "school" in the contemporary art. It's a current born in the metropolitan areas but now it's reaching important proportions even for the art market, albeit very late compared with USA, France and Gre...

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