Mantua
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| - | :"I had never heard of [[Tinto Brass]] until the late [[1970s]] when I read an interview he gave to [[Gideon Bachmann]] in [[The London Times]] (Wednesday, [[3 August]] [[1977]], p. 13). His remarks sufficiently intrigued me to begin a decades-long search, a search that for many years turned up almost nothing apart from tantalizing articles in trade papers. Since the autumn of 2000, though, thanks to friends in Italy, on-line overseas shopping, and eBay, I’ve been able to locate a fair number of Brass’s creations. I had been expecting at least a few of his earlier films to be excellent, but I wasn’t expecting them to be quite as good as they actually turned out to be. --RJBuffalo, a pseudonym of [[Ranjit Sandhu]] | ||
| - | This I read in the early 2000s when I discovered the site http://www.geocities.com/busterktn, a site hosted at Yahoo/Geocities, of which the author says it was "deleted without notice or explanation. They deleted all my email messages too." I believe him. Yahoo did the same to my site in 2004. | + | # Province of [[Lombardy]], [[Italy]]. |
| + | # City and capital of Mantua. | ||
| + | #:''—He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.'' — ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', William Shakespeare | ||
| + | ==Main sights== | ||
| + | The Gonzagas protected the arts and culture, and were hosts to several important artists such as [[Leone Battista Alberti]], [[Andrea Mantegna]], [[Giulio Romano]], [[Donatello]], [[Peter Paul Rubens]], [[Pisanello]], [[Domenico Fetti]], [[Luca Fancelli]] and Nicolò Sebregondi. Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture. | ||
| - | Last week, I found the same site, back online, now hosted under its own domain name, http://www.rjbuffalo.com, a pleasure for the eye and the brain. | + | Main landmarks include: |
| - | + | * The ''[[Palazzo Te]]'' (1525–1535), a creation of [[Giulio Romano]] (who lived in Mantua in his final years) in the mature [[Renaissance]] style, with some hints of a post-[[Raffaello Santi|Raphaelian]] [[mannerism]]. It was the summer residential villa of [[Frederick II of Gonzaga]]. It hosts the Museo Civico (with the donations of [[Arnoldo Mondadori]], one of the most important Italian publishers, and Ugo Sissa, a Mantuan architect who worked in [[Iraq]] from where he brought back important [[Mesopotamia]]n artworks) | |
| - | Brass is one of Jahsonic's canonical filmmakers. Researching him today brought footage of ''[[Monamour]]'', Marta visits a museum, I presume in [[Mantua]] and admires [[scatological]] frescoes by - again I presume by [[Giulio Romano]] in - I presume the [[Palazzo de Te]]. | + | * The ''[[Palazzo Ducale di Mantova|Palazzo Ducale]]'', famous residence of the Gonzaga family, made up of a number of buildings, courtyards and gardens gathered around the ''[[Captain's Palace|Palazzo del Capitano]]'', the Magna Domus and the [[Castello di San Giorgio|Castle of St. George]] with the [[Camera degli Sposi]], a room frescoed by [[Andrea Mantegna]]. |
| - | + | * The ''[[Basilica di Sant'Andrea di Mantova|Basilica of Sant'Andrea]]'' was begun in 1462 according to designs by [[Leon Battista Alberti]] but was finished only in the [[18th century]] when was build the massive dome designed by [[Filippo Juvarra]]. | |
| - | + | * The ''[[Duomo di Mantova|Duomo]]'' (Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle) | |
| - | + | * The ''[[Rotonda di San Lorenzo]]'' | |
| - | <hr> | + | * The ''[[Teatro Bibiena|Bibiena Theater]]'', also known as the ''Teatro Scientifico'', was made by [[Antonio Bibiena]] in 1767-1769. It was opened officially on 3 December 1769 and on 16 January 1770, thirteen-year-old [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] played a concert. |
| - | :"Therefore soak yourself in [[mysticism]], follow every [[intoxicating]] path to every impossible [[Beyond]], be drunken with [[mediaevalism]], [[occultism]]. Yet be sure that Nature is your home, and that from the farthest excursions you will return the more certainly to those fundamental instincts which are rooted in the [[zoological]] series at the summit of which we stand. For the whole spiritual [[cosmogony]] finally rests, not indeed on a tortoise, but on the emotional impulses of the [[mammal]] [[vertebrata]] which constitute us men. " --[[Havelock Ellis]], introduction to ''[[Against the Grain]]''. | + | * The church of ''[[San Sebastiano (Mantua)|San Sebastiano]]'' |
| - | <hr> | + | * The ''[[Palazzo Vescovile di Mantova|Palazzo Vescovile]]'' ("Bishops Palace") |
| - | Researching [[Dominique Mainon]] of the previous post brought up ''[[Cinema of Obsession: Erotic Obsession and Love Gone Wrong]]'', which came out at Limelight Editions in [[2007]]. An instance of'' [[thematic literary criticism]]'' studying [[l'amour fou]] and other cases of [[obsessive love]]. | + | * The ''[[Palazzo degli Uberti]]'' |
| - | + | * The ''Torre della Gabbia'' ("Cage Tower") | |
| - | Of the cover images I can only identify ''[[La dolce vita]]''. The bottom right photo is of [[Barbara Steele]], I'm sure, but which film?. The man behind the camera is not ''[[Peeping Tom (film)|Peeping Tom]]'', I think. Anyone up for identifying the other films?{{GFDL}} | + | * The ''Palazzo del Podestà'' which hosts the museum of [[Tazio Nuvolari]] |
| + | * The ''Palazzo della Ragione'' with the ''Torre dell'Orologio'' ("Clock Tower") | ||
| + | * The ''[[Palazzo Castiglioni Bonacolsi]]'' | ||
| + | * The ''[[Palazzo Valenti Gonzaga]]'', an example of Baroque architecture and decoration, with frescoes attributed to Flemish painter [[Frans Geffels]]. The façade of the palace was designed by Nicolò Sebregondi. | ||
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- Province of Lombardy, Italy.
- City and capital of Mantua.
- —He and I / Will watch thy waking, and that very night / Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. — Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
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Main sights
The Gonzagas protected the arts and culture, and were hosts to several important artists such as Leone Battista Alberti, Andrea Mantegna, Giulio Romano, Donatello, Peter Paul Rubens, Pisanello, Domenico Fetti, Luca Fancelli and Nicolò Sebregondi. Though many of the masterworks have been dispersed, the cultural value of Mantua is nonetheless outstanding, with many of Mantua's patrician and ecclesiastical buildings being uniquely important examples of Italian architecture.
Main landmarks include:
- The Palazzo Te (1525–1535), a creation of Giulio Romano (who lived in Mantua in his final years) in the mature Renaissance style, with some hints of a post-Raphaelian mannerism. It was the summer residential villa of Frederick II of Gonzaga. It hosts the Museo Civico (with the donations of Arnoldo Mondadori, one of the most important Italian publishers, and Ugo Sissa, a Mantuan architect who worked in Iraq from where he brought back important Mesopotamian artworks)
- The Palazzo Ducale, famous residence of the Gonzaga family, made up of a number of buildings, courtyards and gardens gathered around the Palazzo del Capitano, the Magna Domus and the Castle of St. George with the Camera degli Sposi, a room frescoed by Andrea Mantegna.
- The Basilica of Sant'Andrea was begun in 1462 according to designs by Leon Battista Alberti but was finished only in the 18th century when was build the massive dome designed by Filippo Juvarra.
- The Duomo (Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle)
- The Rotonda di San Lorenzo
- The Bibiena Theater, also known as the Teatro Scientifico, was made by Antonio Bibiena in 1767-1769. It was opened officially on 3 December 1769 and on 16 January 1770, thirteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played a concert.
- The church of San Sebastiano
- The Palazzo Vescovile ("Bishops Palace")
- The Palazzo degli Uberti
- The Torre della Gabbia ("Cage Tower")
- The Palazzo del Podestà which hosts the museum of Tazio Nuvolari
- The Palazzo della Ragione with the Torre dell'Orologio ("Clock Tower")
- The Palazzo Castiglioni Bonacolsi
- The Palazzo Valenti Gonzaga, an example of Baroque architecture and decoration, with frescoes attributed to Flemish painter Frans Geffels. The façade of the palace was designed by Nicolò Sebregondi.
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