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We owe to Italy the first books in Greek and Hebrew types. The first complete fonts of Greek types were used in Rome in 1465 and in Venice in 1472, as quotations in Latin text. The first book in Greek was printed in Milan in 1476. Before Aldus first book in Greek (1495), thirty-four Greek [...]

Although the Italians are not usually associated with naval development some of the most important evolutions in naval vessels have been suggested from Italy. In the second part of 19th century they made the first very large iron clads of the Dandolo type. Cuniberti conceived and designed the battle cruiser type with unit calibre guns [...]

As might well be expected from what they accomplished for music in other ways the inventions of Italians in musical instruments are many and various and most important. The violin in the form in which we have it comes entirely from their hands and it is besides to Italian makers that we owe the perfection [...]

Mstyora is an ancient village famous for its craftsmen of lacquer miniatures and icon painting.
This settlement was mentioned in the chronicles for the first time in 1626. In the reign of Peter I the settlement belonged to Prince Fyodor Yurievitch Romodanovsky, companion-in-arms of the tsar and head of the Preobrazhensky department, and was called the [...]

In the history of Italian art, Raphael stands alone, like Shakespeare in the history of English literature. Everywhere we recognize his forms and lines, borrowed or stolen, reproduced, varied, imitated, never improved.
Raphael of Urbino was born in Urbino, in 1483. Urbino is located in the Marche region of Italy, between Ravenna and Perugia. As you [...]

If you admire an wood art box with thin and smooth drawing on the black background plentifully decorated with gold shading know: before you - a Palekh lacquer miniature. It is based on a long local history of icon painting. Icon painting craft has arisen in the early thirties in village Palekh of the [...]

A research undertaken by tour operator A La Carte Italy Tours studies travel patterns to Italy. That luxury tour company offers chauffeured excursions across all areas of Italy.
Americans travel gladly. How does their travel behavior look? We like traveling on our continent. We are actually a well-traveled people. Americans are always gladly seen guests. And [...]

Originally Khokhloma wood tableware were produced in monasteries and for the czar court only. At that time Khokhloma tableware production was not large scale. It was because of expensive imported tin. In 1720s after the end of the North War tin flow to Russian increased. The price went down and the material came within [...]

A varied country from North to South, Italy benefits from attractions in every little town and village. With the exception of the three great cities (Milan, Rome and Naples) the rest of the population is scattered in a myriad of towns, countries and villages that constitute the true fabric of the country.
3,550 museums, [...]

If you are serious about a contemporary music career, selecting the best type of music school education is very important. An ideal school is one that offers comprehensive, hands-on education in contemporary music performance (typically, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and voice), recording, songwriting, original music production, music business and related fields such as music video [...]