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Architect Richard Murphy examines how the late Carlo Scarpa has understood the nature of the city of Venice. Scarpa is considered by architects as the great authority on how to intervene creatively in...
Looks at the Italian university system where ‘natural selection’ sees only 30% of those enrolled as students get their final degree qualifications. The huge drop-out rate means that many universities are...
Land use maps in the Italian state archives in Turin archives are used to research social and economic conditions in the regions of Piedmont - the hilly Langhe with sparse mixed farming, the flat Po valley,...
Focusing on Italy as an extreme case, this programme follows up one of the crucial issues in understanding population change - the decline in fertility in Italy. It describes what has happened to Italy’s...
Support video for course A354. In two parts: 1) three comparisons of sculpture, painting and architecture; 2) a case study of the funerary chapel Oratorio di San Giorgio, with a step-by-step guide showing...
Examine women’s involvement in Fascist parties past and present in Italy, France, Germany and the UK. Women currently involved call themselves ‘modern nationalists’ in order to distance themselves from...
Often seen as the true beginning of neo-realism with its documentary-style imagery and the authenticity of its performances, Rossellini’s classic tells the story of resistance under German occupation....
A paginated stop-start video presenting a visual analysis of the topography, architecture and urban development of Siena, Florence and Padua in the 14th century by systematically following the same chaptered...
Explores the fascinating and complex decorative scheme painted by Giusto de Menabuoi, which fills the interior of the public baptistery commandeered to act as a family funerary chapel by Fina Buzzacarina,...
The Grand Tour took many people of taste and wealth to Italy in the 18th century. Antique artefacts brought back from some of these travels form the nucleus of many of today’s museum collections. This...
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