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Sixteen pieces from Sandro Botticelli, the latest international exhibit to have its American debut at the Muscarelle Museum at the College of William and Mary, opens Saturday. Botticelli was a contemporary of Michelangelo as well as Leonardo da Vinci, whose work was the focus of another Muscarelle exhibit in 2015. The works featured in "Botticelli...

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The upstairs galleries of the Muscarelle Museum echo with emptiness, the rich red walls bare and the space scattered with hollow glass cases. Not for long. In a matter of weeks, the elevator doors will start to empty thousands of people into galleries containing 26 works by Italian painter Sandro Botticelli and his colleagues. Once inside, gazing u...

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One of only two of Botticelli’s paintings of an isolated Venus will be on view for the first time in the United States in Botticelli and the Search for the Divine:  Florentine Painting Between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities, a major international loanexhibition organized by the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Va., in partners...

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by Lorre Korecky   Complementing their Westfield High School studies in the Italian language, 14 students traveled to Italy this year with chaperones, including Italian teacher Maria Santilli. "The trip aimed to offer students an opportunity to gain a deeper appreciation of the culture and language that they had been studying in school,...

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by Hannah Benson Rodriguez    Throughout the coming year, Southern Virginia University Head Lacrosse Coach Jason Lamb will periodically return to the country where he served a full-time mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to coach the Italian National Lacrosse Team.   Lamb, one of two coaches working to se...

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For 28 years, Victor Minichiello has run one of the most popular Italian restaurants in Williamsburg. And for the last 20 years, Sal's by Victor has been voted the best Italian restaurant in the Virginia Gazette's annual Best of Williamsburg contest.   "It's important to love what you do, from your heart," Minichiello said. "The custome...

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by Andrea Castillo   Just over a year after closing up shop, Vinny and Sonny Chiarello are reopening Luigi's, saying they have been unable to stay away from the business. Running the restaurant, after all, was something the brothers had been doing for nearly 30 years. "Over the year and some odd months, we've been getting nothing b...

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By Robin Joss CIAO the Colonial Italian American Organization of Williamsburg has been celebrating Italian Film for ten years through their annual Italian Film Festival. Yearly, search the community has gathered for this well-loved Williamsburg event by viewing a trio of films shown the second Thursday of each month, viagra 60mg January through M...

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«Mio padre lavorava alla Olivetti come operaio, mia mamma era una casalinga. Io sono andata avanti grazie alle borse di studio. Poi un professore degli Stati Uniti è venuto in Italia, ha chiesto se qualcuno era interessato a fare esperienze all'estero. Da lì è nato tutto».   Raffaella De Vita, 37 anni, sta per ricevere dalle mani di Barack O...

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Negli Stati Uniti una mostra dedicata al grande artista italiano, con 26 disegni provenienti dalla 'Casa Buonarroti', si aprirà in febbraio al 'Muscarelle Museum' di Williamsburg in Virginia e poi in aprile si trasferirà al 'Museum of Fine Arts' di Boston. Un avvenimento di assoluta importanza che negli USA non si verificava da decenni. 'Sacro e Pr...

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