32 curiosities about art and history
Lessons
- Damnatio Memoriae – is it possible to erase history?
- Venationes – thousands of wild animals lost their lives in the Coliseum
- The Basilica that became a Mosque
- Acqua alta – Is it possible to save Venice?
- The Flying censer
- The Chapel that looks like a piece of jewelry
- Jan van Eyck’s great invention
- The Saint who has chosen his burial place
- Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks
- The many architects of the Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica
- “Don’t touch the relics!” – a king who wanted to be eternal and one of the greatest businesses in history
- Dissections on behalf of Art
- Michelangelo’s disenchantment with the Sistine Chapel
- What is the great innovation of the Mona Lisa?
- Benvenuto Cellini – the “outlaw”
- Rembrandt – from fame to bankruptcy
- Bernini X Borromini – one of the great rivalries in architecture
- Jacques Louis David – “The ferocious terrorist”
- The Giant Heart of Canova
- The illness that changed the course of art
- The dedicated architect who was not invited
- Inquisition Censorship and its Reflections on Art
- Claude Monet: an eye problem and some of the most fascinating works of art
- The Salon and the big chance for fame
- The great risks that Gustave Eiffel took
- The risky choice of Kandinsky
- The artist who knew how to use marketing like no one else
- The architect with a cursed destiny
- What is the origin of the Louvre Museum’s collection?
- Paris, the City of Disagreement
- Bold and controversial works that have marked the history of art
- What gives value to the works of art?
- Quizz and Certificate – 32 curiosities about art and history