Imagining the Renaissance: ALBRECHT DÜRER AND ITALY
Lecture by Alice Jarrard WITH MUSICAL INTERLUDES BY CAPELLA DE LA TORRE Presented in collaboration with the Goethe Institut. Albrecht Dürer’s relationship to Italy inspired him, of course, but also Italians in his own time, writers reimagining the Italian Renaissance in the late 19th century, and thinkers today. This talk, by art historian Alice Jarrard, […]
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Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini
Movie Screening Cineforum con Italians in DC Ferrara, 1930s, la dolce vita of Micòl and other young bourgeois of the Jewish community turns into a tragedy with the fascist racial laws and the outbreak of the war. Italy- 1970, color, 95 min. Directed by Vittorio De Sica Film in Italian with English subtitles TRAILER […]
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Ignacio Prego, harpsichordist – European Baroque Music
at National Gallery of Art On the occasion of the EU Month of Culture harpsichord virtuoso Ignacio Prego will perform Italian, Spanish and German baroque music at the National Gallery of Art. LOCATION National Gallery of Art West Building Ground Floor Lecture Hall 4th and Constitution Ave, NW Washington, DC 20565 RSVP OPEN TO THE […]
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LA NOSTRA VITA (OUR LIFE)
Cineforum with Italians in DC Claudio (Elio Germano), 30 years old, works at a construction site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. When he finds the remains of an illegal immigrant under the site, he doesn’t report it for fear of […]
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Italian Masters at the Head of the Class: Michelangelo and Mattia Preti
A lecture by John T. Spike In this illustrated presentation, art historian and author, John T. Spike, will speak about two landmark exhibitions that have received national publicity for their fascinating counterpoint as supreme examples of Renaissance wisdom versus Baroque bravura. In observance of the 2013 Year of Italian Culture, the Muscarelle Museum of Art […]
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NEXT STOP: ITALY (conference)
AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The European Division, Library of Congress presents a discussion of the photograph/poetry album With film/photography critic Dr. William Gilcher and poet/radio host Grace Cavalieri Also participating will be the book’s editor, Renato Miracco, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Italy, as well as contributor Verna Curtis and poet Dolores Kendrick. RSVP Please […]
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Parables, Poetry and Czardas
CONCERT The program is an eclectic mix of works that, as the title of the program suggests, will include the telling of stories through music, the conjuring up of poetic images through sound and the call to dance through infectious rhythms. The first two pieces were written by Paule Maurice and Cécile Chaminade, two ground-breaking […]
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PINOCCHIO. The Story of a Puppet.
A theatrical performance based on Collodi’s Fairy Tale ApertaMente Srl Presents Pinocchio. The story of a puppet is a theatrical show inspired to The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi directed and performed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. MARCH 18, 2013 at 1PM A presentation of the play in Italian will be offered at George Washington […]
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Machiavelli’s Prince throughout the centuries
at Georgetown University OPEN TO THE PUBLIC “When evening comes, I return home and enter my study; on the threshold I take off my workday clothes, covered with mud and dirt, and put on the garments of court and palace. Fitted out appropriately, I step inside the venerable courts of the ancients, where, solicitously received […]
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DESIGN IS ONE: LELLA AND MASSIMO VIGNELLI
2013 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital MOVIE SCREENING Presented on the occasion of The Washington, DC International Design Festival and in conjunction with The Next Wave: Industrial Design Innovation in the 21st Century . Among the world’s most influential designers, Italian-born Lella and Massimo Vignelli have created signage and maps for New York’s […]
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