Michelangelo Merisi, known as "Caravaggio", is considered one of the most important painters in the history of Italian art. His nickname "Caravaggio" comes from the name of the village near Bergamo where his family lived.
The artist was born in Milan in 1571 and became famous for his particular us...
Ovid's Metamorphoses tells the story of a beautiful nymph named Cyane who fell in love with young Anapos.
One day, the nymph was walking with her friend Persephone on the shore of a lake.
While the young girl was picking flowers, Hades, god of the underworld and in love with Persephone, decided to...
The Corinthian order is one of the architectural orders of the Greek-Roman period; its capital is characterised by decorations of acanthus leaves.
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Bossage is a particular construction and decorative technique consisting of stone blocks overlapping and marked in the joints, worked in relief, rough-hewn or diamond rusticated....
The word hecatomb, from Greek, literally means "sacrifice of a hundred oxen".
Over time, the term has been used to refer to the sacrifices of many victims, including non-bovine ones, and in everyday vocabulary it is now synonymous with slaughter....
The term "oracle" derives from the Latin verb orare, "to speak", however in ancient times, the oracle characterised the Greeks' relationship with religion.
The oracle was in fact the voice of the divine through a medium, someone who spoke on behalf of the deity, a priest or priestess.
Each oracl...
A Greek historian, originally from Agira (Sicily), he lived between 80 and 20 BC.
He wrote a universal history in which he reported all the events from the mythical age to the Roman expedition to Gaul led by Julius Caesar in 59 BC.
The work was originally composed of 40 books, of which the first...
Outpost is a military term used in architecture to indicate a building constructed in front of a defensive line.
In ancient times, it referred to watchtowers and signal towers....
Aristotle was a philosopher and scientist from ancient Greece. He was born in Stagira, an ancient Greek colony in Thrace, in 384 BC, and alongside Plato and Socrates, is considered the father of Western philosophy.
His philosophy was based on the research of Plato, his teacher, for an eternal and ...
MiC – Ministero della Cultura
Legge 77/2006 - Misure Speciali di Tutela e Fruizione dei Siti Italiani di Interesse Culturale, Paesaggistico e Ambientale, inseriti nella “Lista Del Patrimonio Mondiale”, posti sotto la Tutela dell’ UNESCO Regione Siciliana.
Assessorato dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana.
Parco archeologico della Valle dei Templi di Agrigento.
