It’s a city that lives its history instead of calcifying ... picking you up in La Belle Époque and dropping you in the Renaissance. So why isn’t Genoa better known? After all, 200 years ...

GENOA – Throughout its history, Genoa has been the meeting ... He was a great patron of the arts and introduced the High Renaissance to the city. This was the beginning of the century of the ...

2004-01-25 04:00:00 PDT Genoa, Italy-- People used to call Genoa "the Naples of the north" because the two Italian port cities share a crazy jumble of weathered buildings, funiculars, chaotic dog ...

Take in Italian Renaissance masterpieces in Florence and Pisa. Experience the culture and history of Genoa as you meander the twisting caruggi (narrow streets) before relaxing amidst the stunning ...

That’s because they were, quite literally, mansions added to a Renaissance-era list ... was director of the Institute of the History of Architecture at Genoa University, identified 88 that ...

Artistic ferment bubbled in Italy in the late 1400s and early 1500s, but despite the later idealization of that period as the Renaissance ... not far from Genoa, where Sofonisba was then living.

recasting its cryptic frescos as a suite of textile murals depicting scenes from Roma history. Few artists working today, however, have internalized the lessons of Renaissance composition as ...