Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. Truman Capote, an American writer....
Biennale – City of Venice agreement FREE WI-FI ACCESS ON THE LIDO The Biennale and the City of Venice announce an important agreement to allow the public, the journalists and the operator...
Alexander Ivanov, The Bay of Naples near Castellmare (1846) Alexander Ivanov, On the Shore of the Bay of Naples (1850s) The Bay of Naples has traditionally been a favourite with painters. Peter...
Alexander Ivanov, the contemporary of Nikolai Gogol and Karl Brullov, spent a large part of his life in Italy where he also did many sketches for his masterpiece, The Appearance of Christ to the Peopl...
I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned Italia, my Italia, at thy name: And when from out the mountain’s heart I came And saw the land for which my life had yearned, I laughed as one who some gr...
Alexey Tyranov was born in 1801. Prior to going to the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg he worked alongside his brother as an icon painter. At the Academy he studied under Alexey Venetsianov, and from...
Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva lived all her life in St Petersburg where she was born in 1871. She was born into a family of a high official who eventually became a senator, and later married a renowned Rus...
Prince Grigory Gagarin was born in St Petersburg in 1811. Having spent his youth with his parents in Paris and Rome where his father served as an ambassador, Gagarin went on to study in Siena, at the ...
Alexander Brullov was born on November 29, 1798 in St Petersburg in the family of Pavel Brullo, a sculptor and ornamental artist of French origin. With his brother, Karl, Alexander received a special ...
Credit: CRAF Yesterday in St Petersburg there opened an exhibition of Italian landscape photography organised by the Italian Cultural Institute (RU) and the CRAF Centre of Research and Archivation of ...