the creator “named the drink the Bellini because its unique pink color reminded him of the toga of a saint in a painting by 15th-century Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini.” So there you go.

Feminists often cast Callas as a victim of the men in her life – her first husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini ... she electrified works by Donizetti and Bellini that had previously seemed ...

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World-renowned Nikos Floros, an ambassador of contemporary Greek art, sculpted the impressive statue made out ... of the aria “Casta Diva,” the famous soprano prayer from Bellini’s opera “Norma” that ...

free’ – the future Italian statesman and connoisseur of Renaissance painting Giovanni Morelli (1816– 91) expressed his newly formed views on the individuality of Raphael: ‘even though he is... At the ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Giovanni Pernice got his fans fired up this week as the former Strictly Come Dancing professional shared an insight into his upcoming tour, The Last Dance. The Italian-born star shared a black-and ...

Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers. By Zachary Small The National ...

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The Moroccan Ambassador to the UK visited the Barber Institute of Fine Arts and viewed the renowned Portrait of Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud ben Mohammed Anoun.

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