In this age of musical abundance, it's hard to fathom that an LP once cost the equivalent of a few days' wages in Japan. In the 1950s, audiophiles who couldn't afford to buy their own music did their listening at coffee shops known as ...
The archetypical kissaten (traditional coffee shop) would probably be a cozy neighborhood joint with faded '60s decor, one of those vintage pink pay phones that only take ¥10 coins and a couple of elderly customers smoking furiously as they squint over their newspapers. If you ...
Bold in color and expressive in texture, the works of Venetian painters have their own distinctive place within Renaissance art. Taking the lead was Titian (1488/90 -1576), who became official painter to the Venetian Republic, and whose fame spread across the Europe of his ...
Many historical exhibitions tend to be collections of whatever the museum in question can get their hands on, loosely united around a period, a theme, or the name of a famous artist. The exhibition that has just finished at the Bunkamura "Money and Beauty: ...
May 26-Aug. 9 The whereabouts of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Battle of Anghiari" remains a mystery. Often called the "Lost Leonardo," it was believed to have been commissioned in 1504, at the same time as Michelangelo Buonarroti was asked to create an accompanying battle ...
March 21-June 28 Florence in the 15th century was governed by a merchant oligarchy, of which the House of Medici, then one of the largest banking families in Europe, became particularly powerful and politically influential rulers. The arts flourished under the patronage of such families, ...
Founded in Milan in 1881, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum houses the extensive collection of an aristocratic art collector. Nobleman Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822-1879) devoted his life to decorating his home with artworks of the Renaissance, amassing around 3,000 pieces, including paintings by Botticelli, ...
