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  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, draws a strip of "Beetle Bailey" in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
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    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, draws a strip of "Beetle Bailey" in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, at the warehouse of the National Comic Museum before  moving the collection from to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator of "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, sits on the couch of his home-studio in front of the wall exhibiting his most famous comics, such as "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi and Lois". On June 20th Mr. Walker will be moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • 19 June, 2008. Stamford, CT. Cartoonist Mort Walker, 85, in his home-studio the day before moving his National Comic Museum collection from a warehouse in Stamford to a Ohio State University library. Mr. Walker is the creator "Beetle Bailey", one of the oldest comic strips still being produced by the original creator. The museum was established by Mr. Walker in 1976. Since then he collected over 200.000 pieces, including comic books, new clippings, drawings, film footage and posters.<br />
©2008 Gianni Cipriano for the Wall Street Journal<br />
cell. +1 646 465 2168 (USA)<br />
cell. +1 328 567 7923 (Italy)<br />
gianni@giannicipriano.com<br />
www.giannicipriano.com
    GCipriano_20080619_WSJ_COMICS_Walker...jpg
  • RIACE, ITALY - 24 October 2013: A drawing with the title "Bambini in mezzo al mare" (Children in the middle of the sea) hangs on the wall of a room of Palazzo Pinnarò, headquarters of the Città Futura association (Future City) in Riace, Italy, on October 24th 2013.
    CIPG_20131024_STERN_Riace__M3_3286.jpg
  • KRATEN, KERKENNAH ISLANDS, TUNISIA - 22 OCTOBER 2015: Journalist Eric Reidy takes notes after drawing a map of the fishing areas in the Mediterranean Sea and the migrants routes from Libya and Tunisia to Sicily, in Kraten, Kerkennah Islands, Tunisia, on October 22nd 2015.
    CIPG_20151022_MATTER-GhostBoat-Tunis...jpg
  • GRASSANO, ITALY - 24 JULY 2014: Children, who have prepared a drawing to donate to the Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio, attend a ceremony to celebrate his arrival  in Grassano, his ancestral home town in Italy, on July 24th 2014.<br />
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived in Italy with his family Sunday morning for an 8-day summer vacation that includes meetings with government officials and sightseeing in his ancestral homeland.
    CIPG_20140724_NYT_DeBlasio__M3_2870.jpg
  • SANT'ELPIDIO A MARE, ITALY - MAY 20: A technician shows the various designing steps in the creation of a Tod's shoe, frpm the deigner's drawing to the computerized version, at the Tod's headquarters in Sant'Elpidio a Mare (FM, Marche), Italy, on May 20, 2011. The Tod's headquarters was designed by Della Valle's wife Barbara Pistilli and was inaugurated in 1998. Tod's Group is an Italian company which produces shoes and other leather goods, and is presided over by businessman Diego Della Valle. It is most famous for its driving shoes.<br />
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Gianni Cipriano for Le Monde
    della-valle_19.jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: Visitors watch the projection of "The Cave Painter" as "Silent Dedication" is projected in the back, at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: "The Cave Painter" (2013) . plaster, wood, foam, synthetic hair, sculpting epoxy, metal, paint, glitter, glass, three overhead projectors on custom-sculpted plinth, photo-collage projection acetates, timer sequencer - is here projected at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2016: The plaster cast of David Olère's drawing of the undressing room of Crematorium 3 of Auschwitz, is seen here in The Evidence Room at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy, on June 4th 2016.<br />
<br />
The Evidence Room exhibition, presented by the University of Waterloo lead by Canadian scholar Robert Jan Van Pelt and, is a reconstruction of key architectural elements of Auschwitz that disproved the Holocaust denier David Irving who had sued American scholar Deborah Lipstadt and her publisher for libel.  In her 1994 book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, Lipstadt counted Irving among Hitler apologists and revisionists seeking to downplay the scale of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of six million European Jews. <br />
<br />
Robert Jan van Pelt served as the expert witness in the trial, and his report became one of the sources of inspiration for the new discipline of architectural forensics, which is located at the intersection of architecture, technology, history, law and human rights.<br />
<br />
The exhibition, which force us to examine architecture used for evil – and designed by architects complicit in crimes against humanity, reconstructs some of those forensic details, including full-scale models of a gas column, a gas door, and a wall section with gas-tight hatch – all of which were shown in court to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Auschwitz was, as Van Pelt says, “a purposefully designed factory of death, equipped with large, homicidal gas chambers and massive incinerators.”
    CIPG_20160604_NYT-Evidence_M3_0163.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 25 NOVEMBER 2014: A drawing made by the  young asylum seekers in recent days saying "We're afraid, Where do you go?" at the Accommodation Center for Asylum Seekers in Tor Sapienza, a working-class neighborhood in the outskirts of Rome, Italy, on November 25th 2014. Tor Sapienza has seen several days and nights of violence against refugees by residents who blame foreigners for crimes.
    CIPG_20141125_LEMONDE_Immigration__M...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: Visitors look at Giulio Paolini's "Quadri di un'esposizione" (2013) - pencil drawing and various elements o the wall. opaque white base, Plexiglas case with engraved design, 36 Plexiglas plates - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 31 MAY 2013: Giulio Paolini's "Quadri di un'esposizione" (2013) - pencil drawing and various elements o the wall. opaque white base, Plexiglas case with engraved design, 36 Plexiglas plates - at the Italian Pavillon, at the Arsenale of the Biennale in Venice, Italy, on May 31st 2013.<br />
<br />
Quadri di un'esposizione, 2013, guides the viewer's eye through a trajectory that connects the<br />
dimension of reality to that of artifice and staging. Through the use of geometric<br />
perspective, Paolini manipulates the surface of the exhibition space, forcing its twodimensionality.<br />
The work, in its complexity, refers to a dimension to which the eye cannot<br />
appropriate, revealing the mechanisms that regulate perception. <br />
<br />
The Italian Pavilion presents vice versa, an ideal journey through Italian art of today,<br />
an itinerary that tells of identities, history and landscapes - real and imaginary - exploring the complexity and layers that characterize the country's artistic vicissitudes. The Italian Pavillon is curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi,<br />
who describes the exhibition as, ?A portrait of recent art, read as an atlas of themes and attitudes in dialogue with the historical legacy and current affairs, with both a local and international dimension. A cross-dialogue of correspondences, derivations and differences between acclaimed maestros and artists of later generations". The exhibition is divided into seven spaces - six rooms and a garden - that each house<br />
the work of two artists,<br />
who are brought together on the basis of the affinity of their<br />
respective poetics and common interests in themes, ideas and practices.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130531_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: A detail of "The Cave Painter" (2013) . plaster, wood, foam, synthetic hair, sculpting epoxy, metal, paint, glitter, glass, three overhead projectors on custom-sculpted plinth, photo-collage projection acetates, timer sequencer - is here projected at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: "The Cave Painter" (2013) . plaster, wood, foam, synthetic hair, sculpting epoxy, metal, paint, glitter, glass, three overhead projectors on custom-sculpted plinth, photo-collage projection acetates, timer sequencer - is here projected at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: "The Cave Painter" (2013) . plaster, wood, foam, synthetic hair, sculpting epoxy, metal, paint, glitter, glass, three overhead projectors on custom-sculpted plinth, photo-collage projection acetates, timer sequencer - is here projected at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: "Silent dedication" - written, direct and art directed by Sharyn Boyle - translated and performed by Beth Hutchinson - black and white 16mm film, is here projected at at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013: "Silent dedication" - written, direct and art directed by Sharyn Boyle - translated and performed by Beth Hutchinson - black and white 16mm film, is here projected at at the Pavillon of Canada, Giardini of the Biennale,  in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
<br />
With "Music for Silence" the Toronto-based artist Shary Boyle explores ideas of silence, isolation and solutude. "Music for Silence" is a totale re-imagining of Canada's national space, merging imagination and folklore with humanistic, feminist and social concerns. "Music for Silence" showcases the exceptional level of hand-made craft signature to Boyle's practice, in which she works in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting and performance. She states: "In conceiving this installation, I thought a lot about the emotional entitlement we afford ourselves when we are moved by a song. I considered experiencing art as on would music; with trust in perception and intelligence of feeling. Each object is a note; building an arc and repeating; suggesting cycles and rythms.<br />
<br />
The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
<br />
Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
    CIPG_20130529_NYT_VeniceBiennale__MG...jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, walks by his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0845.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A women passes by as children play soccer in San Gennaro's square in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_1559.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Children play in San Gennaro's square in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_1523.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: People relax on a terrace overlooking the Amalfi Coast in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_1521.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Enzo Caruso poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic sculptures, in which he represents fantastic figures disguised as sirens, sailors or bishops with grotesque expressions., one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016. Enzo Caruso's work revolves around the theme of the so-called janare, mythical figures often seen as witches. Through the janare, he intends to represent local folk mythology but also to make a reference to the many unconscious, dark fears people have.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Children play by artist Fausto Lubelli's ceramic panel, a tribute to local culture and mythology, in one of the eight art itineraries of the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Antonio d'Urso (86), a retired fishermen, poses for a portrait in front of a religious shrine in Piazza San Luca in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, walks by his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, poses for a portrait in front of his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A ceramic panel by artist Paolo Sandulli is veiled for the inauguration of the eight art itineraries of the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Two men rest on stairs by the beach "La Praia" in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: People relax on the beach "La Praia", by the art itinerary of art Paolo Sandulli marked by a red drape, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Giuseppina De Rosa, a resident of Praiano that takes care of a small garden in Via Croce, where artist Patrizia Marchi showcases her ceramic masks, is interviewed here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Giuseppina De Rosa, a resident of Praiano that takes care of a small garden in Via Croce, where artist Patrizia Marchi showcases her ceramic masks, is interviewed here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A ceramic mask by artist Patrizia Marchi, who wants to reproduce the spirit of Praiano in both its human and natural elements is here in Via Croce, one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, is here in his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: The "Homage to Esther Williams" terracotta sculpture is here in Paolo Sandulli's 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016. Paolo Sandulli is one of the eight artist involved in the Praiano NaturArte project.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A sculpture and the latin inscription "Cave Artem" (Beware of Art) are here at the entrance to the studio of Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • NAPOLI, 23 APRILE 2016: I fumettisti Milo Manara e Tanino Liberatore disegnano delle dediche per dei fan alla XVIII edizione di Comicon, il salone internazionale del fumetto a Napoli, il 23 aprile 2016.<br />
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NAPLES, ITALY - 23 APRIL 2016: Cartoonists Milo Manara and Tanino Liberatore draw inscriptions for their fans at the XVIII edition of Comicon, the international comics fair in Naples, Italy, on April 23rd 2016.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Children play soccer by a "Don't play ball" sign in San Gennaro's square in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Women relax on a terrace overlooking the Amalfi Coast in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Children play soccer in San Gennaro's square in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Children eat pizza in San Gennaro's square in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A view of Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Enzo Caruso poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic sculptures, in which he represents fantastic figures disguised as sirens, sailors or bishops with grotesque expressions., one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016. Enzo Caruso's work revolves around the theme of the so-called janare, mythical figures often seen as witches. Through the janare, he intends to represent local folk mythology but also to make a reference to the many unconscious, dark fears people have.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Enzo Caruso poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic sculptures, in which he represents fantastic figures disguised as sirens, sailors or bishops with grotesque expressions., one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016. Enzo Caruso's work revolves around the theme of the so-called janare, mythical figures often seen as witches. Through the janare, he intends to represent local folk mythology but also to make a reference to the many unconscious, dark fears people have.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Patrizia Marchi poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic masks, in which she reproduces the spirit of Praiano in both its human and natural elements, here in Via Croce, one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Patrizia Marchi poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic masks, in which she reproduces the spirit of Praiano in both its human and natural elements, here in Via Croce, one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artists Enzo Caruso and Patrizia Marchi, both involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, walk in one of the eight art itineraries by Sandro Mautone's majolica panel in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artists Enzo Caruso and Patrizia Marchi, both involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, walk in one of the eight art itineraries in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A girl plays hide and seek by artist Fausto Lubelli's ceramic panel, a tribute to local culture and mythology, in one of the eight art itineraries of the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Antonio d'Urso (86), a retired fishermen, poses for a portrait in front of a religious shrine in Piazza San Luca in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: (L-R) Gaetano Volo (70) and Antonio d'Urso (86), two retired fishermen, rest under a traditional religious shrine in Piazza San Luca in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: (L-R) Gaetano Volo (70) and Antonio d'Urso (86), two retired fishermen, rest under a traditional religious shrine in Piazza San Luca in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A fisherman relaxes at the beach "La Praia", by the art itinerary of art Paolo Sandulli marked by a red drape, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, walks by his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: The 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio of Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, is here in front of his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Mayor of Praiano Giovanni di Martino (right) unveils the ceramic panel of artist Paolo Sandulli to inaugurate the eight art itineraries of the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Visitors walk along the art itinerary of artist Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, marked with a red drape in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Visitors walk along the art itinerary of artist Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, marked with a red drape in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, poses for a portrait next to one his ceramic panels celebrating the old fishing life, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, poses for a portrait next to one his ceramic panels celebrating the old fishing life, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: An elderly man returns from a mountain trail, which is also the art itinerary (one of the eight of the Praiano NaturArte project) of stone sculptor Francesco Mangeri,  in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: The red drape of the art itinerary of stone sculptor Francesco Mangieri leading to the San Domenico convent, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
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The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A majolica panel by artist Sandro Mautone illustrating Polyphemus, one of the most significant stages of Odysseus’ journey, is here on a wall of one of the eight itineraries of Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
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Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
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These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: An elderly woman farms in her garden in Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Teenagers walk in one of the Praiano NaturArte project art itineraries, between contemporary artist Fausto Lubelli's ceramic tile and traditional religious shrine in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0338.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Teenagers walk in one of the Praiano NaturArte project art itineraries, between contemporary artist Fausto Lubelli's ceramic tile and traditional religious shrine in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A man carries strawberries and a gas tank in a wheelbarrow by    artist Fausto Lubelli's ceramic panel, a tribute to local culture and mythology, in one of the eight art itineraries of the Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0232.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, is here in his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0215.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, runs down the spiral staircase of his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0179.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, is here in his 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0174.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Unfinished terracotta female busts are here in Paolo Sandulli's 13th century “Torre a Mare” tower studio in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016. Paolo Sandulli is one of the eight artist involved in the Praiano NaturArte project.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0089.jpg
  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A view of the red drape of one of the art itineraries of Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A view of Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • 26 August 2010. Bellamonte, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy. A draw of woodcutters ancestors is here in the Museo Etnografico del Nonno Gustavo (Ethnographical Museum of  Grandpa Gustavo) in Bellamonte, a fraction of Predazzo, a town in the province of Trento. Predazzo is one of the two most important towns of the Val di Fiemme. Rinaldo Varesca, 82 years old, is the current owner of the museum that exhibits two thousand working tools used in the past 300 hundred years. He named the museum after his grandfather Gustavo.<br />
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Artist Patrizia Marchi poses for a portrait next to one of her ceramic masks, in which she reproduces the spirit of Praiano in both its human and natural elements, here in Via Croce, one of the eight art itineraries of the NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: Visitors walk along the art itinerary of artist Paolo Sandulli, one of the eight artists involved in the Praiano NaturArte project, marked with a red drape in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A majolica panel by artist Sandro Mautone, which illustrates one of the stages of Odysseus’ journey, is here on a wall of one of the eight itineraries of Praiano NaturArte project in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
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  • PRAIANO, ITALY - 21 MAY 2016: A view of Praiano, a town of the Amalfi Coast that is trying to position itself as an open-air museum, is seen here in Praiano, Italy, on May 21st 2016.<br />
<br />
Over the previous three decades, Praiano had grown as part of the tourism boom of nearby Positano and the Amalfi Coast in general, but it had never developed its own identity or tried to shape its future. It is now trying to muscle in on the fame of better-known tourist drawn towns like Positano, Ravello and Amalfi, by positioning itself as an open-air museum. On Saturday, the town unveiled eight tourist itineraries, tracking the town’s traditional small religious shrine made of majolica tiles, augmented with the works of eight contemporary artists.<br />
<br />
These shrines were built all over town to protect the Praianesi and their homes. The artists were asked to draw inspiration from the past or the local values and traditions and to revitalize and reinforce the concept of "street art" typical of the traditional shrines. The artists were also asked to create ceramic installations that would enhance and enrich the natural landscape. Their installations were not supposed to alter the nature and the local “people’s architecture”, but rather to enrich them in harmonious and elegant ways.<br />
<br />
The Praiano NaturArte Project consists of eight art itineraries. Seven of them have ceramic works (ceramic is a traditional medium in the area) and are made by some of the best and most well-known artists in the area.
    CIPG_20160521_NYT-Amalfi_M3_0381.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JULY 2018: Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Gallery, poses for a portrait in front of "Carpet with the arms of one of Sultan Qa'it Bay's emirs", manufactured in Mamluk workshop in Cairo in the quarter of the 15th century, here at the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JULY 2018: Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Gallery, poses for a portrait in front of "Carpet with the arms of one of Sultan Qa'it Bay's emirs", manufactured in Mamluk workshop in Cairo in the quarter of the 15th century, here at the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 29th 2018.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
    CIPG_20180729_NYT_IslamUffizi_M3_152...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: Izzedin Elzir, Imam of the Mosque of Florence, poses for a portrait in the prayer hall of the Mosque in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018. The Mosque of Florence is hoted in a former parking lot of Borgo Allegri.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
    CIPG_20180728_NYT_IslamUffizi_M3_126...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: Izzedin Elzir, Imam of the Mosque of Florence, poses for a portrait on the minbar (pulpit) of the Mosque in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018. The Mosque of Florence is hoted in a former parking lot of Borgo Allegri.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: The minbar (pulpit)  is seen here in the prayer hall of the Mosque of Florence, hosted in a former parking lot in Borgo Allegri in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
    CIPG_20180728_NYT_IslamUffizi_M3_122...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: A volunteer is seen here cleaning up the prayer hall of the Mosque of Florence, hosted in a former parking lot, here in Borgo Allegri in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
<br />
"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
<br />
According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: A volunteer is seen here after opening the doors of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Florence, hosted in a former parking lot, here in Borgo Allegri in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: A stiffed giraffe, sent alive as a gift in 1487 by Qa'it Bay, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, to Lorenzo the Magnificient, is seen here at the entrance of  the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: (L-R) "Portrait of Mehmet II" (16th century) by Florence artist Cristofano dell'Altissimo, and "Medal with a portrait of Mehmet II" (1480) by Florence artist Beroldo di Giovanni, are seen here in the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: Albarello vases, enamelled ceramic with the symbol of Florence and manufactured in Syria in the 15th century, are seen here in the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: "Carpet with the arms of one of Sultan Qa'it Bay's emirs", manufactured in Mamluk workshop in Cairo in the quarter of the 15th century, is seen here in the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 28 JULY 2018: Arabic insciptions are seen on the nimbus of the statue of "The Young St. John the Baptist" (1477) by scluptor Antonio Gambarelli known as Rossellino, here at the exhibition "Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on July 28th 2018.<br />
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"Islamic Art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century”, curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi  offers visitors the opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. The exhibition illustrates the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries.<br />
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According to Eike Schmidt, the Director of the Gallerie degli Uffizi, "the exhibition not only highlights the interest in Islamic culture that was strongly rooted in Medici collectintg and that continued well into the modern era, but it also testifies to the unprejudiced aesthetic fascination with the Orient that has always permeated European art. At the same time, it draws our attention to the crucial importance of trade, but primarily of intellectual and human exchange, in the Mediterranean basin and beyond as a means of enrichment and of peace".
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  • SAN PIETRO VERNOTICO, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2014: Cinzia Rascazzo (40), founder of a Lecce cooking and food-tour outfit called Stile Mediterraneo, prepares fresh orecchiette pasta at her parents' home and school location in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, on April 4th 2014.<br />
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Mrs Rascazzo, an extra virgin oil taster, wine sommelier and Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to “do something to help my region”.“When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention,” said Ms. Rascazzo. “Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines, or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza spaghetti--the usual things associated with the south.” Today she conducts food tours, leads visits to local producers and oversees cooking classes, where guests learn to make orecchiette, sweet-and-sour bell peppers, cakes with ricotta cheese and much besides. She is frequently joined by her sister, who draws on her medical background to impart scientific and nutritional details about the dishes. Dr. Rascazzo’s recipes and information come together in her English ebook, “The Cuisine of Southern Italian Women: Mediterranean Secrets for a Healthy and Happy Life.”
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  • SAN PIETRO VERNOTICO, ITALY - 4 APRIL 2014: Cinzia Rascazzo (40, up), founder of a Lecce cooking and food-tour outfit called Stile Mediterraneo, prepares fresh orecchiette and cavatelli pasta with her sister and business partner Marika (42, cardiologist) and their mother Dina (68, retired school teacher) at her parents' home and school location in San Pietro Vernotico, Italy, on April 4th 2014.<br />
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Mrs Rascazzo, an extra virgin oil taster, wine sommelier and Harvard MBA who worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, quit investment banking several years ago to “do something to help my region”.“When I was living abroad I always noticed that only Tuscany and Northern Italian regions were getting all of the attention,” said Ms. Rascazzo. “Nobody knew about Puglia or our way of eating, or our wines, or our producers. It was just Mafia, pizza spaghetti--the usual things associated with the south.” Today she conducts food tours, leads visits to local producers and oversees cooking classes, where guests learn to make orecchiette, sweet-and-sour bell peppers, cakes with ricotta cheese and much besides. She is frequently joined by her sister, who draws on her medical background to impart scientific and nutritional details about the dishes. Dr. Rascazzo’s recipes and information come together in her English ebook, “The Cuisine of Southern Italian Women: Mediterranean Secrets for a Healthy and Happy Life.”
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  • Palermo, Italy, 25 October 2012: Candidate for Governor of Sicily Giancarlo Cacielleri, a 37 years old surveyor from Caltanisetta, is here after the rally supported by founder of the Five Stars Movement Beppe Grillo in Palermo, Italy, on October 25 2012. Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned political guru, Grillo campaigned actively in Sicily, swam across the channel that separates the island from the rest of Italy, scaled its active volcano, Mount Etna, and drawed thousands of Sicilians to campaign rallies for his derisive stand-up routines.<br />
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The direct elections in Sicily for the President of the Region and its representatives will take place on Sunday 28 October 2012, 6 months ahead of the end of the terms of office of the current legislature. The anticipated election of October 28 take place after Raffaele Lombardo, former governor of Sicily since 2008, resigned on July 31st. Raffaele Lombardo is under investigation since 2010 for Mafia ties. His son Toti Lombardo is currently running for a seat in the Sicilian Regional Assembly in the coalition of Gianfranco Micciché, a candidate for the Presidency of the Region. 32 candidates belonging to 8 of the 20 parties running for the Sicilian elections are either under investigation or condemned. ### Palermo, Italia, 25 ottobre 2012: Il Candidato alla Presidenza della Regione Sicilia Giancarlo Cancelleri, un geometra di 37 anni di Caltanisetta, scende dal palco dopo il comizio con il fondatore del Movimento 5 Stelle Beppe Grillo, 64 anni, in Piazza Magione per sostenere il , a Palermo il 25 ottobre 2012.<br />
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Le elezioni in Sicilia per la votazione diretta del presidente della regione e dei deputati all’Assemblea regionale (ARS) si terranno domenica 28 ottobre, in anticipo sulla scadenza naturale dell’attuale legislatura, prevista ad aprile dell’anno prossimo. In Sicilia si vota in anticipo dopo le dimissioni del 31 luglio scorso di Raffaele Lombardo, eletto presidente della regione nell’aprile del 2008 e indagato da
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  • VENICE, ITALY - 29 MAY 2013:  A view of the partially removed roof of the Australian pavillon as seen through a reflection at the Pavillon of Australia,  Giardini of the Biennale, in Venice, Italy, on May 29th 20113. <br />
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Gill works in the area of the ephemeral and the domestic, with its daily habits and repetitions in a lived social reality. The Australian Pavilion in the Venice Giardini della Biennale hosts Gill's site-specific project, a few months before the structure will be dismantled and discarded for a new pavilion. Simryn.  The upper floor holds the series of twelve large screens of collaged drawings, Let Go, Lets Go, and the lower section shows the series of mine photographs, Eyes and Storms, while the roof is partially removed, exposing both works in equal measure to the elements. During six months, from June to November 2013, what visitors will experience is a process of disintegration: the transformation of Gill's artwork by sunlight, rain and wind, by the birds and insects feeding on the paper featuring insects.<br />
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The 55th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale takes place in Venice from June 1st to November 24th, 2013 at the Giardini and at the Arsenale as well as in various venues the city. <br />
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Gianni Cipriano for The New York TImes
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