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RENNAISSANCE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 9, 2016
The colorful combination of power and art
Each part of Italy has its own character, but Venice has always been something special and unique. While much of Italy was reduced to insignificant statelets, for much of the peninsula's history Venice was quite the reverse. It projected power far across the Mediterranean and ran a large commercial empire that brought it into close contact both with northern Europe and parts of Asia.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 12, 2016
'Leonardo Da Vinci: Beyond the Visible'
Jan. 16-April 10
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2014
Uffizi highs of the Renaissance
There's something quaint about the main painting at the "Galleria Degli Uffizi: Arte a Firenze da Botticelli a Bronzino — verso una 'Maniera Moderna' " exhibition now showing at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work, "Pallas and the Centaur" (c. 1480-85), a large canvas by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, shows the goddess Pallas Athena, symbolizing reason, taming a centaur — a half-man,half-horse creature, symbolizing savagery.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Aug 5, 2013
The aging issue of Chiba New Town
The Chiba New Town development project was begun in the late 1960s by the Chiba prefectural government, and a decade later, joined by the Land Development Corporation, the government housing organ that would morph into the Urban Renaissance (UR) Agency in 2004. It is located in the northern part of the prefecture and takes in portions of the cities of Funabashi, Shiroi and Inzai.

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