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November 5, 2020

SECRETS OF ITALY

HUMAN STORIES THAT BRING THE PAST TO LIFE. When the French writer Stendhal visited

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November 4, 2020

DID HOLLYWOOD CLEAN UP ANCIENT ROME?

A MILLION INHABITANTS SQUEEZED INTO THE CITY Hollywood movies depict Imperial Rome

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November 3, 2020

TEMPLE OF THE ARTISTS

“AH, PERSPECTIVE, HOW SWEET YOU ARE!” While the Uffizi Museum is world

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November 2, 2020

GIOTTO’S BELL TOWER

CAMPANILE OF FLORENCE The illustrious Campanile of Florence was designed by

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October 30, 2020

THE GATES OF PARADISE

“SO FINE THAT THEY WOULD GRACE THE ENTRANCE OF PARADISE” Michelangelo

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October 29, 2020

FIGHT FOR THE CUPOLA

DUOMO No masterwork in Renaissance Italy could have been as controversial as the

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October 27, 2020

TRIALS OF “THE GIANT”

AS IL GIGANTE The world’s most famous statue after Lady Liberty,

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October 23, 2020

MICHELANGELO’S DAVID: A TALE OF TWO NOSES

WHY YOU WILL NEVER LOOK AT DAVID’S NOSE THE SAME WAY. Everyone was a critic in

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October 20, 2020

LA PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA

THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS TOWN SQUARE IN FLORENCE What’s the best vantage point to

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October 19, 2020

CELLULOID ROME

TREVI FOUNTAIN Rome is one of the most filmed cities on earth—and its signature

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October 15, 2020

ROME: BIRTH OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS

FROM RUINS TO RENAISSANCE RICHES. In the early 1500s, Rome was littered with ruins

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October 13, 2020

SISTINE CHAPEL

CLASH OF THE TITANS In the film The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), Michelangelo locks

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