NoGravity is a performing arts company founded by Emiliano Pellisari that draws inspiration from the Renaissance and Italian art. The performances of this ensemble have been variously defined. Dance-illusion, dance-sculpture, figurative theatre, physical theatre. But no definition has ever managed to summarize the magical world of this company. Today, after 10 years, NoGravity's first international show returns in a new choreographic and technical guise, with a new production and new music in an otherworldly journey where the women and men, earthly and divine, mortal and immortal, that Dante tells of the Divine Comedy are evoked in a show where dance goes beyond the corporeal dimension to evoke intelligences, memories, visions, desires, ideas, souls.
Beginning today, VIVE, the association that oversees Vittoria and Palazzo Venezia, launched a new initiative to restore the sculptures on the monument to Victor Emanuel II, or Vittoriano, thanks to funding from Bulgari. The project reflects Bulgari’s link to the Eternal City and devotion for preserving its treasures for future generations. The site ...
Within the history of the lapidary arts, the so-called “CABOCHON” cut is considered one of the oldest techniques of cutting gems.
Appreciated since Antiquity, this technique was practiced by craftsmen from China to the Mediterranean basin, via India, because it highlighted the color of the gemstones.
The CABOCHON cut became a signature of ...