Art & culture in Italy
No other country in the world can boast of having as many cultural and artistic treasures as Italy. This is where we find more than half of the world’s historical and cultural heritage (UNESCO data). Each era finds an invaluable testimony there.
A large number of pieces – small and large – belonging to the past are preserved in hundreds of archaeological sites and in more than 3000 museums scattered throughout Italy, where tourists, visitors and researchers can admire them and to study. Italy is exceptionally rich in memories of its most distant past: theaters and other buildings from Greek and Roman times; entire towns, roads and neighborhoods once buried and patiently unearthed by skilful excavations; temples, statues, coins, inscriptions, everyday objects, etc. The Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals built after the year one thousand, often enriched with elegance, still stand imposingly, especially in the central and northern regions, while the ancient religious architecture is a fascinating blend of Byzantine, Muslim and Norman elements to the South. There are also testimonies of an artistic tradition rooted and widespread in every region, in every town and village of Italy, sometimes in the “minor” form of craftsmanship.
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Masaccio, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Donatello, Raphael, Antonello da Messina, Bramante, Correggio, Tintoretto, Giorgione: all these artists (sculptors, painters, architects) entered the legend and are known throughout the world as the greatest expressions of artistic genius of all time. Their works constantly attract visitors who remain amazed and amazed, students and researchers eager to understand (and snatch) the secrets of this sublime and inaccessible art in its highest expressions.
It is the art of the Renaissance, the great cultural movement born in Italy in the 15th century and which profoundly influenced the history of Italian and European culture and civilization. The Renaissance replaced man, who had remained on the margins of divine designs during the difficult centuries of the Middle Ages, and the secular world at the center of the universe. Philosophers like Giordano Bruno and Tommaso Campanella, scholars like Copernicus and Galileo, researchers like Machiavelli, poets like Ariosto, musicians like Palestrina and Monteverdi are the great men of the Renaissance. Thanks to a “modern” vision of the world and of society shared and supported by a wealthy and enterprising bourgeoisie, they radically changed the dominant way of thinking, acting and creating. era. For the arts and architecture, the Renaissance is synonymous with masterpieces, inventive and creative genius. The great artistic season of the Renaissance left magnificent traces all over Italy, not only in large cities such as Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan and Naples, but also in many other centers of many Italian regions. Paintings, statues, churches, palaces and fountains are an uninterrupted and impressive series of signs through which the visitor can reconstruct in thought a civilization that has truly changed the world. not only in big cities like Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan and Naples, but also in many other centers in many Italian regions. Paintings, statues, churches, palaces and fountains are an uninterrupted and impressive series of signs through which the visitor can reconstruct in thought a civilization that has truly changed the world. not only in big cities like Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan and Naples, but also in many other centers in many Italian regions. Paintings, statues, churches, palaces and fountains are an uninterrupted and impressive series of signs through which the visitor can reconstruct in thought a civilization that has truly changed the world.