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Tra tutte le città toscane, Livorno, è solitamente ritenuta la più moderna,sebbene nel suo territorio siano presenti diverse testimonianze storiche, artistiche e architettoniche sopravvissute ai massicci bombardamenti della seconda guerra mondiale e alla successiva ricostruzione. E' celebre per aver dato i natali a personalità di prestigio e grandi artisti (Amedeo Modigliani, Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Fattori, Piero Ciampi e tanti altri).
I fossi di Livorno è un fossato (da non confondersi con canale) che in origine seguiva il perimetro della città fortificata e che, in seguito, con l'abbattimento dei bastioni, ha perso definitivamente la sua funzione difensiva. Il sistema dei fossi e dei canali livornesi, seppur soggetto a numerose modifiche nel corso dei secoli, mantiene inalterato gran parte del proprio fascino, tanto è vero che, sin dal 2002, ne è stato caldeggiato l'inserimento nella lista dei Patrimoni dell'umanità.
Inoltre la tradizione vuole che Amedeo Modigliani, sconfortato, nel 1909, incompreso e deriso dalla città e dagli amici artisti, decise di gettare nel Fosso Reale alcune sue sculture prima di tornare a Parigi, città dove passò il resto dei suoi giorni e dove oggi è sepolto al cimitero Père-Lachaise.
Nel tratto compreso tra il Mercato delle vettovaglie e la chiesa degli Olandesi nei primi anni ottanta, furono avviate le opere per la loro ricerca, con il ritrovamento di tre teste, inizialmente attribuite al maestro, ma che poi si rivelarono dei clamorosi falsi.
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Of all the Tuscan cities, Livorno is usually considered the most modern, although in its territory there are several historical, artistic and architectural testimonies that survived the massive bombings of the Second World War and subsequent reconstruction. It is famous for giving birth to prestigious personalities and great artists (Amedeo Modigliani, Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Fattori, Piero Ciampi and many others).
The ditches of Livorno is a moat (not to be confused with a canal) which originally followed the perimeter of the fortified city and which, following the demolition of the ramparts, definitively lost its defensive function. The system of the ditches and canals of Livorno, although subject to numerous changes over the centuries, maintains much of its charm unchanged, so much so that, since 2002, its inclusion in the list of World Heritage Sites has been advocated .
In addition, tradition has it that Amedeo Modigliani, discouraged in 1909, misunderstood and derided by the city and his artist friends, decided to throw some of his sculptures in the Fosso Reale before returning to Paris, the city where he spent the rest of his days and where today he is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
In the stretch between the Market of provisions and the church of the Dutch in the early eighties, the works for their research were started, with the discovery of three heads, initially attributed to the master, but which then turned out to be resounding fakes.
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Ce lieu emblématique de Montmartre, la Maison Rose, a été ouverte par Germaine Pichot en 1908, c' était une cantine montmartroise fréquentée par plusieurs générations d’artistes: Picasso, Modigliani, plus tard Piaf, Barbara, Aznavour, Nougaro, Brel, ou encore Camus. Actuellement un restaurant c'est l'une des haltes picturales les plus célèbres de Montmartre. Elle doit notamment sa renommée aux tableaux de Maurice Utrillo, peintre des paysages urbains de la Butte
This emblematic place of Montmartre, the Pink House, was opened by Germaine Pichot in 1908, it was a canteen in Montmartre frequented by several generations of artists: Picasso, Modigliani, later Piaf, Barbara, Aznavour, Nougaro, Brel, or even Camus. Currently it's a restaurant , one of the most famous pictorial stops in Montmartre. It owes its fame in particular to the paintings of Maurice Utrillo, painter of the urban landscapes of the Butte
The Place du Tertre, known for the artists who paint tourists for pleasure and money.
In the village of Montmartre, the well-known painter's district famous for its Bohemian past.
Near the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the twentieth, during the Belle Époque, many artists lived in, had studios, or worked in or around Montmartre, including Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Suzanne Valadon, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films.
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There is a whole variety of believers. Whosoever comes to these desolate mountains couldn't be exactly ambitious, at least not over worldly matters, and one can be sure life is hard here.
Maurice Gendron and Mstislav Rostropovich (pno), Chopin Cello Sonata - Largo ( How are the two of them getting along?)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtbmO6qfPA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eve-57S6Gw0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6no0IQq9LWQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfzVegGAhaw
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虚谷的画，有一种透明感
www.bilibili.com/video/BV1SU4y1x73R?from=search&seid=...
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Sanyu (常 玉), a Chinese Painter living in Paris ( in Chinese )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJW_hkr753Y
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50h71Xy-emQ
Tsuguharu Foujita (藤田嗣治) (1886-1968) Expressionism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NSmXAjO_Rg
Chaime Soutine (柴姆·蘇丁)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB4N6SVob9M
Moise Kisling
www.google.com/search?q=moise+kisling+paintings&tbm=i...
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Sanyu was nicknamed the Modigliani/ Matisse of the East. He came from a wealthy family having been taught Chinese poetry and ink painting by one of the Emporer's scholarly advisors in his youth. He studied arts in Japan for a couple of years before turning to Paris in his early 20's. Instead of attending any of the academies there, he chose to hang around saloons. He extended many of the aesthetic formalities of both of the East and the West, since he painted only from his heart and soul. He blended the styles from both the West and the East very uniquely, in subjects, materials or treatments. Other than expressionist exaggerations , he is also a great master of minimalism, keen to capture the very essence of the substances with a few symbolic strokes. His paintings are well received both in the East and the West. For a long time, his paintings are fetching a very high price. He is the only Chinese painter who had essentially integrated into or even pioneered Western painting albeit with things which could be traced back to his background. In his later years, having squandered all his money away, he became extremely poor...
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On Health by a Korean Physician
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oodt7__cxCk
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Ricardo Odnoposoff plays Zigeunerwiesen
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pWCgE_KbiU
Max Bruch
a second life version of a painting copy by Modigliani... the inspiration for my current show at Berg by Nordan Art
Staircase of the Courtauld Gallery in Somerset House, London. The gallery contains numerous famous works of art, including Manet's 'A Bar at the Folies-Bergere' as well as pictures by Monet, Renoir, Gaugin, Degas, Cezanne, Modigliani and Van Gogh. A small gallery, but well worth visiting. They also have this rather fine staircase by Sir William Chambers. Unlike the paintings, you can walk on this work of art!
Forget ink blot test. Frozen puddles are the way to go. Found a "face" in some frosty water & leaves. Thought it resembled a Modigliani portrait. Wonder what a mental health professional would say that means ;)
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Building named after František Kupka.
František Kupka (23 September 1871 – 24 June 1957), also known as Frank Kupka or François Kupka,[1] was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism).[2] Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.
Education
František Kupka was born in Opočno (eastern Bohemia) in Austria-Hungary in 1871. From 1889 to 1892, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. At this time, he painted historical and patriotic themes. Kupka enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he concentrated on symbolic and allegorical subjects. He was influenced by the painter and social reformer Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851–1913) and his naturistic life-style. Kupka exhibited at the Kunstverein, Vienna, in 1894. His involvement with theosophy and Eastern philosophy dates from this period. By spring 1894, Kupka had settled in Paris; there he attended the Académie Julian briefly and then studied with Jean-Pierre Laurens at the École des Beaux-Arts.[4][5]
World War I
Kupka served as a volunteer in the First World War, and is mentioned in La Main coupée by Blaise Cendrars. Cendrars describes him as a "proud soldier, calm, placid, strong"... but really too old to be a soldier, being at least 25 years older than the rest. When the regiment set out from Paris for the front in Picardy (they marched all the way on foot) Mme Kupka met the column as they arrived at the La Défense roundabout, near where they lived. She marched with them, carrying her husband's bag and his rifle. She would have marched all the way to the front, but at the end of the first day the colonel had her arrested and sent back to Paris. She later made her way to the front lines to spend time with her husband. Kupka himself left the front due to frostbite in the foot, caused by nights in the trenches waist-deep in freezing water.[6]
Career
Amorpha, Fugue en deux couleurs (Fugue in Two Colors), oil on canvas, 210 × 200 cm, 1912, Narodni Galerie
Kupka worked as an illustrator of books and posters and, during his early years in Paris, became known for his satirical drawings for newspapers and magazines. In 1906, he settled in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, and that same year exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne. Kupka was deeply impressed by the first Futurist Manifesto, published in 1909 in Le Figaro. Kupka's 1909 painting Piano Keyboard/Lake marked a break in his representational style. His work became increasingly abstract around 1910–11, reflecting his theories of motion, color, and the relationship between music and painting (orphism). In 1911, he attended meetings of the Puteaux Group (Section d'Or). In 1912, he exhibited his Amorpha. Fugue à deux couleurs, at the Salon des Indépendants in the Cubist room, although he did not wish to be identified with any movement. Creation in the Plastic Arts, a book Kupka completed in 1913, was published in Prague in 1923.[7]
The Salon d'Automne of 1912, held in Paris at the Grand Palais from 1 October to 8 November. Kupka's Fugue in Two Colors is exhibited on the left. Other works are shown by Jean Metzinger (Dancer in a Café), Joseph Csaky (Groupe de femmes), Francis Picabia (La Source), Amedeo Modigliani (sculptures) and Henri Le Fauconnier (Mountaineers Attacked by Bears).
In 1931, he was a founding member of Abstraction-Création. In 1936, his work was included in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and in an important show with another Czech painter, Alphonse Mucha, at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. A retrospective of his work took place at the Galerie Mánes in Prague in 1946. The same year, Kupka participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where he continued to exhibit regularly until his death. During the early 1950s, he gained general recognition and had several solo shows in New York.
Between 1919 and 1938 Kupka was financially supported by his good friend, art collector and industrialist Jindřich Waldes who accumulated a substantial collection of his art. Kupka died in 1957 in Puteaux, France.
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Qui sotto vi mostro lo scatto originale a colori e un'impressione di Modì.
Alla mostra non si potevano scattare foto, quest'ultima è la foto di una borsa sulla quale è stato stampato il bozzetto di una cariatide, risalente all'epoca in cui Modigliani avrebbe voluto dedicarsi alla scultura, aspirazione che dovette abbandonare poiché scolpire la pietra significava inalare polveri che i suoi polmoni cagionevoli non avrebbero tollerato.
Nella mia foto ci sono discrepanze rispetto all'opera originale, la borsa non era tesa...
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Teresa Berganza : "Che farò senza Euridice"; Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OsNFCZlH7c
Heifetz ( violin )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tenI_FyFeZ0
Emanuel Feuermann ( cello )
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6fq70NS_x4
In Ballet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=alggQNGQuw4
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKhr3MGUSAU
Orpheus in the Underworld, played by Wang Yuja
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrQUj2a8MiA
The best piano versions of the piece are probably :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIkhkzXr_DM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=io-7CqUkuPI
... the version by Mark Hambourg ( Leschetizky's pupil ) and Levitzki ( Dohnanyi's pupil ) are also beautiful, but the their left hand hasn't carved out the pathos so impressive as Rachmaninoff. And I don't prefer Hoffman or Nelson Freire. For the violin version, Kogan and Szeryng's version are both spellbinding !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxaysc93b1w
Dance of the Blessed Spirits
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTd_fwRm0wU
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Claude Monet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQQMk_8AQ0
Camille Pissarro: A collection of 978 paintings (HD)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjYod9Q32wg
Van Gogh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Nh4RmRkH8
Henri Matisse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1wume443zY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWFzKdegq-0
Paul Cezanne
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ni7ntkJb8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8agD9o37cAk
Gustav Klimt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziy0-BSYB5U
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjqjPNgf22U
Modigliani
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpQy5FeWzS0
Vermeer
La Place du Tertre is located in the 18th district of Paris, on the Montmartre hill a few meters from Saint-Pierre de Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
The square is famous for painters, who exhibit and paint their portraits and works in the open air.
It is one of the most emblematic places of Montmartre and one of the main tourist attractions of Paris.
It is a reminder of the Parisian bohemian of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, where Montmartre was the birthplace of Impressionism.
In the early twentieth century, several poor painters who were later known worldwide, such a Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani and Utrillo were painting there.
The well dressed gentleman in red whom he glues his eyes to will soon to be lost in the horizon ... The young man probably doesn't know that the boss of Iphone Huawei came from his neighouring village, once as poor as him, even though the latter still leads a very simple and frugal life, more so than the boss of Ikea from Sweden, but way harder : with literally a mattress rolled under his desk which he could take a nap on 3 or 4 hours a day in the middle of the night if need be. And now his firm is facing what Alstom had faced a few years back with his greatest assistant i.e. his daughter being held a hostage in Canada. Whereas the horse has everything it needs abundantly literally non stopped...
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CHINESE ANTIQUES in the British Museum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lzyyAmVVsQ
Modigliani
www.art.com/gallery/id--a29/amedeo-modigliani-posters.htm
Tatiana Nikolayeva plays Schubert Sonata D.960
Motherhood
Amedeo Modigliani
Seen in 2014 Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne d'art
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor. He died in poverty, after a structured life and a very short career, but today he is one of the most popular artists of the 20th century.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Belle Époque, many artists had studios or worked in or around Montmartre, including Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. This site is served by metro line 2 stations of Anvers, Pigalle and Blanche and the line 12 stations of Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin.
Riche d'un long passé artistique, ce lieu-dit de Paris dominé par la basilique du Sacré-Cœur a toujours été le symbole d'un mode de vie bohème où, de Picasso à Modigliani, de nombreux artistes trouvèrent refuge. Jusqu'en 1860, Montmartre était une commune du département de la Seine.
Rich with a long artistic past, this locality of Paris dominated by the Basilica of the Sacred Heart has always been the symbol of a bohemian lifestyle where, from Picasso to Modigliani, many artists found refuge. Until 1860, Montmartre was a commune in the Seine department.
A gennaio del 2020, Livorno rese omaggio al grande pittore Amedeo Modigliani (uno dei suoi figli più illustri), con la grande mostra al Museo della Città e con una serie di iniziative per commemorare, il centenario della sua morte, avvenuta a Parigi il 24 gennaio 1920.
Tra le varie inziative, che si succedettero in quel periodo, sicuramente la più suggestiva e originale, fu il grande evento, che si svolse alle Terme del Corallo.
Gli edifici storici delle Terme, costituirono una quinta architettonica per un suggestivo spettacolo di luci, video-mapping e musica, a cura di IMMERSIVA. Una rappresentazione, interamente dedicata ad Amedeo Modigliani: un connubio straordinario tra il meraviglioso complesso monumentale liberty (purtroppo oggi decadente) ed il grande artista livornese.
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In January 2020, Livorno paid tribute to the great painter Amedeo Modigliani (one of his most illustrious sons), with the great exhibition at the City Museum and with a series of initiatives to commemorate the centenary of his death, which took place in Paris on the 24th January 1920.
Among the various initiatives that took place in that period, certainly the most evocative and original, was the great event, which took place at the Terme del Corallo.
The historic buildings of the Baths formed an architectural backdrop for an evocative show of lights, video-mapping and music, curated by IMMERSIVA. A representation entirely dedicated to Amedeo Modigliani: an extraordinary combination of the marvelous liberty monumental complex (unfortunately now decadent) and the great Livorno artist.
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A gennaio 2020, Livorno rese omaggio al grande pittore Amedeo Modigliani (uno dei suoi figli più illustri), con la grande mostra al Museo della Città e con una serie di iniziative per commemorare, il centenario della sua morte, avvenuta a Parigi il 24 gennaio 1920.
Tra le varie inziative, che si succedettero in quel periodo, sicuramente la più suggestiva e originale, fu il grande evento, che si svolse alle Terme del Corallo.
Gli edifici storici delle Terme, costituirono una quinta architettonica per un suggestivo spettacolo di luci, video-mapping e musica, a cura di IMMERSIVA. Una rappresentazione, interamente dedicata ad Amedeo Modigliani: un connubio straordinario tra il meraviglioso complesso monumentale liberty (purtroppo oggi decadente) ed il grande artista livornese.
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In January 2020, Livorno paid tribute to the great painter Amedeo Modigliani (one of his most illustrious sons), with the great exhibition at the City Museum and with a series of initiatives to commemorate the centenary of his death, which took place in Paris on the 24th January 1920.
Among the various initiatives that took place in that period, certainly the most evocative and original, was the great event, which took place at the Terme del Corallo.
The historic buildings of the Baths formed an architectural backdrop for an evocative show of lights, video-mapping and music, curated by IMMERSIVA. A representation entirely dedicated to Amedeo Modigliani: an extraordinary combination of the marvelous liberty monumental complex (unfortunately now decadent) and the great Livorno artist.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Belle Époque, many artists had studios or worked in or around Montmartre, including Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. This site is served by metro line 2 stations of Anvers, Pigalle and Blanche and the line 12 stations of Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Belle Époque, many artists had studios or worked in or around Montmartre, including Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. This site is served by metro line 2 stations of Anvers, Pigalle and Blanche and the line 12 stations of Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin.
Escalera de The Courtauld Gallery en Somerset House. Es más conocido por sus pinturas impresionistas y postimpresionistas, incluyendo obras icónicas de Manet, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin y Cézanne.
Las exposiciones se extienden hasta el siglo XX con obras de Modigliani, Matisse, Kandinsky y el grupo Bloomsbury, junto con obras maestras del expresionismo alemán y el arte británico moderno.
Un buen lugar para perder una mañana.
Omaggio ai grandi artisti del passato
Amedeo Modigliani 1884-1920
Elaborazione fotografica di Dieghito61
Nudo femminile seduto,1916 - Amedeo Modigliani
Le idee migliori non vengono dalla ragione,ma da una lucida visionaria follia
Erasmo da Rotterdam 1466-1536
At the beginning of the twentieth century, during the Belle Époque, many artists had studios or worked in or around Montmartre, including Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh. Montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. This site is served by metro line 2 stations of Anvers, Pigalle and Blanche and the line 12 stations of Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck - Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin.
opening Sunday.. a collection of my quirky sl "paintings" at the wonderful Berg by Nordan Art gallery (LM to follow)
a huge thank you to Kate Bergdorf for the invitation to show at her gallery. It's really an honor !
This collection is inspired by one of my favorite artists Modigliani who spent most of his life doing expressionistic portraits of people. His work was a jumping off point for me... hope you'll come see what followed !
Hiroshima Museum of Arts - Advertising in the Station corridors
Marie Laurencin (Paris, France, 1883-1956) - マリー・ローランサン
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Amedeo Modigliani (Livorno, Italia, 1886 - Paris, France, 1920) -
アメデオ・モディリアーニ
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amedeo_Modigliani
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Seen at the Modigliani Unmasked exhibit at the Jewish Museum.
"Jeanne Hebuterne With Yellow Sweater" 1918-19
Livorno es una ciudad portuaria italiana ubicada en la costa occidental de la Toscana. Es conocida por su marisco, sus fortificaciones renacentistas y su moderno puerto con terminales de cruceros. Terrazza Mascagni es un céntrico paseo marítimo con pavimento ajedrezado y el principal punto de reunión de la ciudad. Los bastiones de la Fortezza Vecchia, que data del siglo XVI, están frente al puerto y ofrecen acceso al barrio de Venezia Nuova de Livorno, que está lleno de canales.
Liorna nació como un pequeño pueblo de pescadores y fue fundada como verdadera ciudad en 1606 por el granduque de Toscana. La ciudad siempre ha sido abierta a los judíos, que florecieron aquí, y muchos livorneses famosos pertenecían a la judería de la ciudad, como Amedeo Modigliani y Elia Benamozegh. Fue un lugar importante bajo el amparo de los Médici en el Renacimiento con importantes concesiones en el siglo XVI, Livorno creció durante el gobierno de Leopoldo II de Toscana en el siglo XVIII, el cual abrió la ciudad a los mercaderes y comerciantes extranjeros. Fernando I de Médici declaró la ciudad puerto franco en 1590, y esto duró hasta 1860, cuando la ciudad pasó a formar parte del Reino de Italia.
Ton devoir réel est de sauver ton rêve.
Your real duty is to save your dream.
~ Amedeo Modigliani ~
View On Black & Large (old version)
The one shot I was after while away; we stayed at a hotel in Turin which was part of Fiat's old Lingotto factory until the seventies. This is eight portrait shots, second attempt, at a time when there was no-one else in sight, thirty-degree heat in an extremely perilous crouch at the very top of the bank.
The building atop, the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli Art Gallery - not the ugly, incongruous glass and steel one being built behind - contains an exhibition full of works by Canaletto, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani and others. I love this place.
The factory was completed in 1923. Unlike any other car factory to date, the factory featured a spiral assembly line that moved up through the building and a concrete banked rooftop test track. It was the biggest car factory Europe had ever seen and was the second largest in the world.
Designed by engineer Giacomo Mattè-Trucco, the five story building featured a simple loop rooftop test track with two banked turns that consumed a 1620 foot x 280 foot portion of rooftop. The test track's banked turns were constructed from an intricate series of concrete ribs in a construction technique that had not been used frequently before Lingotto's construction. It's safe to say the technique had never been used for a test track six stories in the air.
The rooftop test track at Lingotto was not a novelty or an afterthought, but an integral part of the manufacturing process; the Lingotto factory featured a unique upward spiral assembly line. As each Fiat was put together it would progress upwards through the building story by story. Each floor was sequentially designated to specialize in a major part of assembly. What would start on the ground floor as raw materials and individual parts became a running driving Fiat by the time it spiraled its way to the top of the building.
When a Fiat had finished its climb through the 16,000,000 square feet of Lingotto it exited the building by way of the roof. Each Fiat was taken on to the roof and around the banked race track to make sure the prior five floors of manufacturing had done their jobs to satisfaction. The Lingotto test track was even briefly featured in the Italian Job. During the famous escape sequence the red white and blue Mini's go three wide on the banked rooftop race course with police in hot pursuit.
If you're in Turin, go. It's worth the trip. Plus you can go to the track for free if you use a little confidence or you can buy a ticket for the exhibition and go with your ticket.