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Milan-Cortina Artists: Leonardo and Titian
Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo are culturally and linguistically dissimilar. Both are proud homes to Leonardo da Vinci and Titian. One painted a sex worker, the other his patron’s mistress. Both occasionally used their fingers to paint and were exacting in their precision.

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Roman Glass: From the Beach to Table
Glass was to the Romans what plastic is to modern cultures. Romans were adept at large-scale enterprise, be it conquering the Eastern Mediterranean to Britain, or, with glass, taking manufacturing to new levels of production and design. Glass was remarkably versatile, allowing Romans to recycle it, form it into brilliant colors, inventive shapes, and intricate patterns.

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Claude Monet in Venice
Claude Monet painted over 500 pictures in the last twenty-eight years of his life. Thirty-seven of those were Venetian views inspired by his 1908 stay. Monet became smitten with the city and regretted not having visited and painted it earlier in his career. He called Venice “too beautiful to paint,” unsure initially if he could capture the city’s light and atmosphere.

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Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi: One was Pious, One went Rogue
Two friars became renowned early Renaissance Florentine painters. Fra Angelico was a pious friar whose faith was mirrored in his art and was later beatified. Fra Filippo Lippi, the rogue friar, fathered two children with a nun. Each was renowned for their innovation and style. Born Guido di Pietro, Fra Angelico worked as a Dominican artist in Fiesole then Florence. “Fra” means “...

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Becoming a Saint
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