Continues the digitization of the Vatican Library
They come alive in the works for the digitizing of Vatican Library after positive test its 23 80 thousands of manuscripts to be scanned.
With a minibus to discover the gardens of the Pope
Finally The Vatican is open to the public gardens of the Pope. In fact now you can visit the park on the edge of a CNG minibuses with low environmental impact, of 28 places, equipped with GPS and a an audio-in 5 Languages (Italian, English, French, Spanish and German).
The initiative was put into the field in collaboration with the RFO Governorate of Vatican City, and enriches the offer of 'Christian Rome'.The cost of the ticket is 12 €.
The route winds through caves, fountains, gardens, statue, shrines and archaeological that make the gardens of the Pope, as Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo said, “a place of art, history and nature“. Obviously tutisti visiting the garden can not meet the Pope. Corsican, Indeed, take place in the morning, by 8 all 14 and not accomplished on Wednesday (days of the general), Sundays and public holidays. But it also will have access to prohibited in places far simpler, and visitors can enjoy closely at places like Casina Pio IV, the building of the Governorate, the site of Vatican Radio and the railway station and several monuments dedicated to the Virgin Mary including the bronze image of the Black Madonna of Czestochowa that protects the heliport of the Pope.
“We used buses with low environmental impact – Andreatta said Liberius, President of the ORP – putting technology at the service of culture and art but also making sure that the path is also an itinerary of evangelization and represents, in his small, a model of respect for the environment”.
Carlo Mattioli: A Light in the Shadow of the Braccio di Carlo Magno
Rome and the Vatican celebrated Carlo Mattioli the centenary of the birth. They do this with a retrospective that will be hosted by 16 September to 13 November in the Braccio di Carlo Magno. For Mattioli will be a return the shadow of St. Peter's saw that here was one of the protagonists, right 34 years ago, shows the historical “The contemporary artists in Paul VI” that had created the contemporary art section of the Vatican Museums.
L’esposizione, coordinated by Giovanni Morello and curated by Maurizio Calvesi, Antonio Paolucci, Antonio Natali, Gloria Bianchino, Augusta Monferino, Mattioli Anna Zaniboni, Marcella Mattioli and Micol Forti, celebrates one of the great twentieth-century Italian, an artist showing modern sensibility and attention to new trends, has, with absolute consistency, pursued a poetics and a technique that has never abandoned the traditional means of “painting”.
Carlo Mattioli was born in Modena on 8 May 1911. In 1925 he moved with his parents in Parma, where he studied art Toschi Institute where he graduated and began teaching. In the late thirties always Parma, meets a group of young intellectuals including Mario Luzi, Oreste Macri, Attilio Bertolucci, Hugh Guanda mature in that area and the interest in the masterpieces of Italian and European literature which will be a key to his entire artistic career. During the whole of its business will be very strong relationship with the Mattioli writers and especially poets, that will become, by its conscious choice, the true interpreters of his works.
His vast and profound culture figurative (ranging from Romanesque and Po, through Mannerism, Rembrandt and Goya comes to German Expressionism and Fautrier) will be enriched with the meeting is crucial in the arts and human with Roberto Longhi, who will propose to his attention and his first art study new areas neglected by critics.
In Rome for the beatification of John Paul II: Useful information
The May 1 next, after the ceremony beatification presided over by Benedict XVI, body Karol Wojtyla will once again exposed to the veneration of the faithful. The announced directly to the Vatican, who explained that the remains will remain on display "flow until all of the faithful».Will four moments important ceremony, as evidenced by the official press release. We'll start the evening of Saturday 30 April with a vigil preparation event at the Circus Maximus in Rome. The vigil - which will begin preparation all 20 and ending at 22.30 - Will be led by Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome. The Holy Father Benedict XVI will join spiritually through a video link.
The 5 doors of the Basilica di San Pietro
On portico of the Basilica di San Pietro there are five ports at the aisles Basilica. The first door on the left is Door of Death of Manzù, who has depicted the death of Jesus’ and the Madonna, the death of Pope John XXIII and death in space.
The Bronze Door center designed by Filaret in the fifteenth century. in imitation of that of Ghiberti in Florence, was in the Basilica of Constantine. LaPorta Santa the far right opens every twenty-five years at the beginning of the year Holy. The findings are that adorn modern Vito Spouse.
The breathlessness of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel affected by the passage of certain pollution 5 million visitors a year.All this human influx increases the moisture content and endangers the frescoes that made it famousWorldwide.
Incriminated powder, sweat, hair, skin fragments, natural and synthetic fibers are deposited on surfaces painted by Michelangelo, Sandro Botticelli, Pietro Perugino, Pinturicchio, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Luca Signorelli, Piero di Cosimo and must be removed once every one or two years with the soft brush of goat. Sounding the alarm on the imminent danger is the director of Vatican Museums, Professor Antonio Paolucci.
