16 Monday Mar 2015
Posted in Bernini, Italian Life, Music, Rome, Things I Love, women
Andrea Bocelli & Monica Bellucci in Zeffirelli’s Homage to Rome
Here’s an amazing video directed by Franco Zeffirelli in 2009, featuring Andrea Bocelli in a bodice-ripping scene with Monica Bellucci. Of course, Bernini makes it in there, too. It’s been around but I just saw it for the first time, so I thought I’d share. It’s so trashy-novel awesome, I can’t resist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hHHLzoL9cQ
17 Monday Nov 2014
Posted in Art, Art History, Bernini, History, Italian History, Italian Life, Politics, travel, Uncategorized
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Bad Boys, bamboccianti, Baroque, Bernini, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italy, Rome, Travel
Pieter Jacobsz self-portrait
Caravaggio, with his dark masterpieces and epic, troubled life, is the quintessential bad boy of the Baroque. But as I had a chance to learn recently, he wasn’t alone. He may have paved the way but there were a whole passel of tricksters, flirts and provocateurs who followed in his trouble-making footsteps.
23 Tuesday Jul 2013
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This third entry on my fantasy Italian dinner party will be quick and sweet—kind of like dessert.
I met Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury, and her husband, Prince Philip Andrew Doria Pamphilj Landi (another mouthful of a name!), in Rome at the Palazzo Pamphilj, which is where, as I wrote previously, I also met the formidable Olimpia Pamphilj—Philip’s ancestor.
Prince Philip Andrew Doria Pamphilj Landri by DisdÈri, albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s © National Portrait Gallery, London
There isn’t a lot of information out there about this couple that I could find, but during a tour of the Palazzo, with an audio guide narrated by Prince Jonathan Doria Pamphilj, I learned that Mary and her husband were devoted to each other.
Searching For Bernini 