Umbria e Cultura

Marco Polo: copia del testamento in dono al World Tourism Alliance

1 Ottobre 2021 umbriaecultura

Lunedì 27 settembre lo splendido Salone Sansoviniano della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ha ospitato la Cerimonia di donazione di una ricostruzione scientificamente perfetta del testamento di Marco Polo al World Tourism Alliance, organizzazione non profit con sede in Cina che, con il motto Better Tourism Better World Better Life, raccoglie le più importanti imprese del business turistico internazionale, prestigiose catene alberghiere,…

The tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio discovered in Pompeii

18 Agosto 202117 Agosto 2021 umbriaecultura

Pompeii is always a new discover! Now it’s the turn of a new tomb discovered in Porta Sarno site, with the body, partly mummified, of an old man: Marcus Venerius Secundio. Mummified remains, along with the hair and bones of an individual buried in an ancient tomb have been found at the necropolis of Porta Sarno, to the east of…

Birra Perugia: a multi award winning beer

5 Agosto 20214 Agosto 2021 umbriaecultura

The Birra Perugia factory was born in the second half of the 19th century by the will of a man from Milan, who moved to Umbria, who brought with him and introduced, for the first time there, the beer skills typical of the Austro-Hungarian areas. From there the history of the new Perugia beer starts. Antonio and his partners, in…

Thermopolium of Regio V: the snack bar of Pompeii resurfaces in full

27 Dicembre 202026 Dicembre 2020 umbriaecultura

The Thermopolium of Regio V, one of the oldest snack bars at Pompeii, complete with an image of a Nereid riding a sea-horse, which had previously been partially excavated in 2019, re-emerges in its entirety, with other rich decorative still lifes, food residues, animal bones and victims of the eruption. The commercial structure had only been partially studied in 2019,…

The traces of pain. The last plaster casts of Pompeii

22 Novembre 202021 Novembre 2020 umbriaecultura

During the current excavations at Civita Giuliana, around 700 metres northwest of Pompeii, in the area of the large suburban villa two skeletons of individuals caught in the fury of the eruption have been found. The bodies were found in a side room of the cryptoporticus, in the form of a passageway below the villa which led to the upper…

The Piccolomini Library: a treasure of art in Siena

22 Ottobre 202018 Ottobre 2020 umbriaecultura

The Piccolomini Library, built to honor the memory of his maternal uncle Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) and to preserve the rich “book” heritage that the Pope and humanist had collected, was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Tedeschini Piccolomini, archbishop of Siena (later Pope Pius III), around 1492. The frescoes that follow one another on the three walls of the…

Hops selection: the secret to create incredibly tasting American craft beers

15 Ottobre 202015 Ottobre 2020 umbriaecultura

Excitement is mounting amongst American craft brewers as the hops harvest in the United States nears completion. It’s not only brewers who are excited, beer lovers around the world wait in heady expectation for yet more innovative, incredible tasting American craft beers packed full of the highest quality raw materials, to be launched. In the 1980s American craft beer innovation…

Interviews. John R. Pepper introduces his exhibition “Inhabited Deserts”

8 Ottobre 20207 Ottobre 2020 umbriaecultura

Officially inaugurated on October 3rd, the photographic exhibition “Inhabited Deserts” by John R. Pepper, curated by Kirill Petrin and Gianluca Marziani, can be visited in Todi, until November 28th, 2020. Fifty-three large-format images tell of a three-year and 18,000-kilometer journey to discover the most remote and unexplored deserts in the world and a symbolic journey into the unknown corners of…

Giancarlo Esposito will be in Todi for “Inhabited Deserts” exhibition

1 Ottobre 2020 umbriaecultura

Giancarlo Esposito, famous American actor and director, will be in Todi on October 3rd for the inauguration of the photographic exhibition by John R. Pepper “Inhabited Deserts”. Also appreciated as an art creator, Esposito created for the occasion a work inspired by Picasso’s “Dove of Peace”, transforming one of John Pepper’s evocative photos of deserts into a bloody pacifist manifesto:…

Raphael ‘s signature on the banner of Corpus Domini in Gubbio

17 Settembre 2020 umbriaecultura

A very young Raphael, still in his father’s workshop, collaborated in the realization of the Gonfalone del Corpus Domini of Gubbio, commissioned by the Gubbio brotherhood to Giovanni Santi. This is what emerged from the last restoration to which the work was subjected, unfortunately significantly damaged, now exhibited in the splendid church of Santa Maria dei Laici (known as “dei…

Pompeii Commitment: contemporary art at the Archaeological Park

3 Settembre 202030 Agosto 2020 umbriaecultura

Pompeii Commitment Materie Archeologiche / Archaeological Matters is born. This is a project based on the study and valorisation of ‘archaeological matters’ kept in the excavation areas, archives and storages of Pompeii and aimed at the progressive establishment of a collection of contemporary art for the Archaeological Park of Pompeii. Under the scientific direction of Massimo Osanna, General Director of…

The devil hides in the details: disturbing presences in Umbrian churches

27 Agosto 202028 Agosto 2020 umbriaecultura

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell” Shakespeare said, this time the devil fell in two well known Umbrian churches: one located in Perugia and the other in Assisi. The basilica of San Pietro in Perugia, the most beautiful and richest church in the Umbrian capital, erected for the glory of San Benedetto and his order and in eternal…