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16/08/2024

CANALETTO 👨‍🎨🎨🇮🇹
Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697 - 1768)
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, was born in Venice, the son of a theatrical scene painter. He was very influential, famed for his precisely depicted and evocative views of the city (vedute).
He visited England repeatedly between 1746-56, painting works like 'Eton College'. His most important assistant was his nephew Bellotto, who became an accomplished artist. Canaletto often made meticulous preparatory drawings. He may have used a camera obscura for topographical accuracy in creating some of his designs, but he always remained concerned with satisfying compositional design, not simply slavishly recording views.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/canaletto

16/08/2024

" Assumption of the Virgin " from 1516 to 1518
Oil on panel 690 cm × 360 cm
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice⛪️🇮🇹

TITIAN, Tiziano Vecellio or Tiziano VecellI 👨‍🎨🎨🇮🇹
the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.
(born 1488/90, Pieve di Cadore, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died August 27, 1576, Venice).
He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titian......................
" Assumption of the Virgin " from 1516 to 1518
Oil on panel 690 cm × 360 cm
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice⛪️🇮🇹
Titian’s 'Assumption of the Virgin', popularly known as the 'Assunta', is the largest painting on wood panel in the world and among the most influential altarpieces in European art.
The masterpiece is housed in a monumental Istrian stone frame, attributed to Lorenzo and Giambattista Bregno and designed in collaboration with Titian. Modeled on an ancient Roman triumphal arch, the ensemble is topped by three over-life sized sculptures of Saint Francis, Saint Anthony, and Christ the Redeemer.
Extraordinarily innovative, the painting broke with tradition for its sheer size, bold use of color, heroic figure scale, and novel portrayal of the Virgin rising into heaven while the apostles watch in amazement from below.
The basic compositional formula consists of two geometric shapes: the Virgin Mary in a circle, and the amazed apostles in a rectangular block. Titian depicted the ascending Virgin, clad in crimson, in an explosion of brilliant light. The bold color of her robe is echoed in the red worn by two of the apostles below, unifying the two halves of the scene through color. The divine Mary is bathed in gold, while the apostles below are set against a blue sky, further separating the heavenly and earthly spheres. God the Father hovers above with an angel, ready to crown Mary as Queen of Heaven.
The golden half-dome that frames her recalls the ecclesiastical architecture and gold mosaic tesserae of Byzantium, and, of course, the Basilica of San Marco at the very heart of Venice.
https://www.savevenice.org/project/assumption-of-the-virgin?fbclid=IwAR2CEiDaeAyi-MrHoZxYOERrJfj5iw-LXjmdNj2DaC2M2nSvC9V1AKZt7xg
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Titian, Assumption of the Virgin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzPOrcsWB0

16/08/2024

"Assumption of the Virgin"
painting,religious art between 1404 and 1405.
Stained glass window with the Assumption of the Virgin drawn by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Collection : Florence Cathedral

Lorenzo Ghiberti 🇮🇹
(1378 – 1 December 1455)
born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the 'Gates of Paradise.'
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"Assumption of the Virgin"
painting,religious art between 1404 and 1405.
Stained glass window with the Assumption of the Virgin drawn by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Collection : Florence Cathedral
The cathedral rose window - an absolute masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti - depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in 28 colourful panels made by Niccolò di Pietro Tedesco, an expert glassmaker, in 1405. This 10 Florentine “braccia” wide – approximately 6 mts – rose window belongs to a complex cycle of 44 stained glass windows hosted inside Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, the Florentine Duomo.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niccol%C3%B2_di_piero_tedesco_su_dis._di_ghiberti,_vetrata_dell%27assunta,_1405,_01.JPG
https://www.caftours.com/magazine/florence-cathedral-rose-window-finally-restored/index.html
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assunzione_della_Vergine_(Ghiberti)
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La Porta del Paradiso di Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1425-52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlaar7NVBc

16/08/2024

" High Noon in the Alps " / " Pomeriggio nelle Alpi " 1892
Signature and date bottom right: G Segantini / 1892
oil on canvas height: 860 mm (33.85 in); width: 800 mm (31.49 in)
The Ohara Museum of Art , Kurashiki, Japan 🏦🇯🇵

Giovanni Segantini 🎨🇮🇹
(15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899)
Divisionism manifested itself in 1891 at the Triennale di Brera with the first public exhibition of a group of young artists: Giovanni Seganti, Giuseppe Pellizza de Volpedo, Angelo Morbelli, and Emilio Longoni.
What those artists showed upset and divided art critics and public, not only because they used a new painting technique consisting of juxtaposition of colour spots applied on the canvas, but also because they gave an innovative interpretation of social subjects and nature.
ivisionism is similar to French Pointillism, of which George Seurat is the main proponent. Those painters used not only the basics of Impressionism, but also the colour theory studied by the chemist Chevreul starting from 1840, who noticed how juxtaposition of two colours seemed a unique colour if you looked at it from afar.
https://www.theartpostblog.com/en/divisionism/...................................
" High Noon in the Alps " / " Pomeriggio nelle Alpi " 1892
Signature and date bottom right: G Segantini / 1892
oil on canvas height: 860 mm (33.85 in); width: 800 mm (31.49 in)
The Ohara Museum of Art , Kurashiki, Japan 🏦🇯🇵
https://web.archive.org/web/20191025040058/http://www.ohara.or.jp:80/201001/jp/C/C3a12.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Segantini_-_High_Noon_in_the_Alps_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?fbclid=IwAR12Lm7YwXLyCNx1RPMzLD6vKvySLP6K7zyO7qiprkMIUHJ2-4UXR36Pl-4
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GIOVANNI SEGANTINI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMtwFvd08VQ

07/08/2024

" Pietà " : Michelangelo 🇮🇹
The 'Pietà' (1498–1499) is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same subject by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was the French ambassador in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the basilica, in the 18th century.

" Pietà " : Michelangelo 🇮🇹
The 'Pietà' (1498–1499) is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same subject by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was the French ambassador in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is unprecedented in Italian sculpture. It is an important work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)

07/08/2024

August 7, 1420: The start of construction of the Brunelleschi's dome 🇮🇹

August 7, 1420: The start of construction of the Brunelleschi's dome 🇮🇹
On August 7, 1420 – a banquet with melons and wine inaugurated the construction of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Cathedral’s dome, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The dome is the symbol of the Italian Renaissance, it has the largest vault made of bricks and the biggest diameter in history of art. Actually, it is the first modern architecture able the overcome the ancient roman buildings!!!
In sixteen years only, less than one hundred skilled workers built this absolute masterpiece of engineering.....We know the dome consisted in two vaults: one supporting the other. Moreover, there are two ribs on the centre and two on the edges of each shell, and a series of horizontal arches between them. The structure is reinforced by hidden chains that surround it. .........We also know that the dome was raised thanks to ingenious machines designed by Brunelleschi himself......
https://duomo.firenze.it/en/opera-magazine/post/5017/august-7-1420-the-start-of-construction-of-the-dome....................................
Il 7 agosto 1420 Brunelleschi inizia la cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore, con metodi antichi ma anche innovativi.
https://www.facebook.com/raicultura.it/videos/705920640200715..............................
Florence Cathedral 4K | Duomo di Firenze and Brunelleschi Dome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVfP7d3_KE

10/07/2024

Milano e la sua storia
I ❤️ Milano

Foto: 📷

10/07/2024

Milano - Castello Sforzesco
Fu eretto nel XV secolo da Francesco Sforza, divenuto da poco Duca di Milano, sui resti di una precedente fortificazione medievale del XIV secolo nota come Castello di Porta Giovia (o Zobia).
Notevolmente trasformato e modificato nel corso dei secoli, il Castello Sforzesco fu, tra il Cinquecento e il Seicento, una delle principali cittadelle militari d'Europa; restaurato in stile storicista da Luca Beltrami tra il 1890 e il 1905, è oggi sede di istituzioni culturali e di importanti musei.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Sforzesco

Milano e la sua storia
I ❤️ Milano

Foto: 📷

02/06/2024

2 giugno. Festa della Repubblica.🇮🇹
June 2 1946 : Italian plebiscite chooses Republic over monarchy -National Day🇮🇹

30/05/2024

Milano
Naviglio Grande, Porta Genova

Photophonico📸

30/05/2024

Buona serata ! 🙏🌅

Milano
Naviglio Grande, Porta Genova

Photophonico📸

19/05/2024

Orvieto: Pozzo di San Patrizio.

Il Pozzo di San Patrizio è una struttura costruita da Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane a Orvieto, tra il 1527 e il 1537, ed è profondo 54 metri. Al pozzo, capolavoro di ingegneria, si accede da due rampe elicoidali a senso unico, completamente autonome e servite da due diverse porte, che consentivano di trasportare con i muli l'acqua estratta, senza ostacolarsi e senza dover ricorrere all'unica via che saliva al paese dal fondovalle.
The Well of San Patrizio is a structure built by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger in Orvieto, between 1527 and 1537, and is 54 meters deep. At the well, an engineering masterpiece, is accessed by two one-way helical ramps, completely autonomous and served by two different doors, which allowed to transport the extracted water with the mules, without hindering and without having to resort to the only way that saliva to the village from the valley bottom......l'Umbria vi aspetta ....Umbria the new dolce vita!
💰🍀 Photo Credit 📷Lorenzo Viscanti

08/05/2024

Mother's Day, celebrated to honour motherhood, is celebrated on the second Sunday of May in many parts of the world and this year it falls on Sunday, May 12, 2024
The celebration of Mother's Day is said to have begun in the United States during the early 20th century after Anna Jarvis, who is now known as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the U.S., campaigned for a special day for mothers considering their sacrifices for the family. The first official Mother's Day is believed to have celebrated it at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

Mother's Day, celebrated to honour motherhood, is celebrated on the second Sunday of May in many parts of the world and this year it falls on May 8.
The celebration of Mother's Day is said to have begun in the United States during the early 20th century after Anna Jarvis, who is now known as the founder of the Mother's Day holiday in the U.S., campaigned for a special day for mothers considering their sacrifices for the family. The first official Mother's Day is believed to have celebrated it at St. Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/happy-mothers-day-2016-inspiring-quotes-wishes-messages-picture-greetings-share-your-mom-677686
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La storia della Festa della Mamma.. anche con immagini d’arte.. dall’antichità ad oggi
https://tonykospan21.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/la-storia-della-festa-della-mamma-anche-con-immagini-darte-dallantichita-ad-oggi/
[Dolly's Portrait ~ by Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942), American artist]

08/05/2024

LA MADRE - Giuseppe Ungaretti
E il cuore quando d’un ultimo battito
Avrà fatto cadere il muro d’ombra,
Per condurmi, Madre, sino al Signore,
Come una volta mi darai la mano.

08/05/2024

Trasporto di sabbia lungo il Naviglio Grande all’altezza del vicolo Lavandai

07/05/2024

Sandro Botticelli 🎨🇮🇹
Early renaissance (1445-1510)
"Madonna del Libro" - 1480-1481
oil on Canvas 39,6 x 58 cm
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano 🏦🇮🇹

"Madonna del Libro" - 1480-1481 🎨🇮🇹
Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510)
Early renaissance
oil on Canvas 39,6 x 58 cm
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano 🏦🇮🇹
La Vergine è raffigurata, col capo chinato e l'usuale aria assorta e meditativa delle Madonne botticelliane, all'interno di una stanza che prende luce da un'ampia finestra. Il Bambino Gesù, che regge in grembo con la sinistra, si volge in alto verso di lei, accostando la mano destra a quella della Madonna, poggiata su un libro aperto, impaginato come un Libro d'Ore, dal testo non del tutto leggibile e parzialmente identificato con due passi di Isaia ov'è l'annuncio profetico del concepimento e della nascita del Salvatore da parte della Vergine. Attributi della futura Passione sono invece i tre chiodi dorati che il piccolo reca nella sinistra e la coroncina di spine dorate infilata nel braccio, ritenuti aggiunte più tarde, ma perfettamente congruenti al significato del dipinto. Sul tavolo vicino al libro è posta una scatola di legno riccamente lumeggiata in oro e, sopra di essa, una maiolica fiorentina ripiena di frutta che si è pensato potesse avere un significato allegorico. Le ciliegie alluderebbero al sangue di Cristo, le prugne alla dolcezza dell'affetto della Vergine e i fichi alla Salvezza o alla Resurrezione del Cristo.........
The Madonna of the Book is a soft and elegant work, in which Mary and the Child are seated by a window in the corner of a room. She holds a Book of Hours, the Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis, prayer books for laymen common in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The infant is gazing at his mother whilst she is absorbed in reading the book. The hands of both mother and son are positioned similarly, with the right hands open as in a gesture of blessing, and left hands closed.
Mary's blue robe, a color she is often depicted wearing, has the symbolic meanings of purity, heaven, and royalty. In this painting, as in Botticelli's other large series, the Madonna is portrayed as being serious, thoughtful and focused.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_of_the_Book
http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/RL480-00031/
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, better known as Sandro Botticelli or Il Botticello ("little barrels"; March 1, 1445 – May 17, 1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance (Quattrocento).
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sandro_Botticelli
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Botticelli. Madonna of the Book. Poldi Pezzoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8R7_sCEBVY

07/05/2024

Castel del Monte
Posto a 18 km dalla città di Andria, nel cuore della Murgia, Castel del Monte, universalmente noto per la sua peculiare forma ottagonale, costituisce un capolavoro unico dell’architettura medievale e dal 1996 è nella Lista del Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO. L'edificio, risalente al XIII secolo (il primo documento utile alla datazione data al 1240), è indissolubilmente legato al nome di Federico II di Svevia, sovrano del Sacro Romano Impero e committente dell'opera....
https://cultura.gov.it/luogo/castel-del-monte

Castel del Monte
Andria (BT)

📸Mimmo Guglielmi Foto d'Arte

01/05/2024

🇮🇹EXPO2015 | THE OPENING🇮🇹
- 1° Maggio 2015 -
A chiusura della serata, the TREE OF LIFE - l' ALBERO DELLA VITA - si accende..

01/05/2024

" Le Muguet " - vers 1975
signé Marc Chagall en bas à droite
huile sur isorel
37,8 x 45,8 cm ; 14 7/8 x 18 in.
Private Collection

Marc Chagall
(Belarus,Vitebsk 1887–1985 France, Saint-Paul-de-Vence)
“I simply opened my bedroom window and the blue air, love and flowers flowed in.”
(Mark Chagall)...........................
" Le Muguet " - vers 1975
signé Marc Chagall en bas à droite
huile sur isorel
37,8 x 45,8 cm ; 14 7/8 x 18 in.
Private Collection
Sothebys.07 December 2016 • Paris - Lot 7
Blue air floats around an abundant bunch of flowers. Painted in the mid 1970s, Le Muguet (The Lily of the Valley) is a particularly majestic canvas where Chagall offers a blend of his most fundamental motifs.
The blue air represents the vapour of his childhood in his native land of Russia. This is how Chagall described his dreams upon his arrival in Paris in 1911. Predominately purple in hue and touching upon turquoise at its edges, his blue is that of the sea and the sky of the French Riviera, at Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat and then Vence where he set up his studio permanently in 1966.
Bristling with white bells, the sprigs of lily of the valley clustered at the centre of the composition are a variation on the theme of the bouquet. Indistinguishable from Chagall’s art, often associated with the figure of the couple or that of the bride the bouquet is identified by Andre Breton as a “metaphor of pleasure”. Coinciding with the arrival of spring and signifying a “return to happiness”, the lily of the valley matches this symbolism well.....
In quite an exceptional manner, Chagall here chooses a limited (green and white) and nuanced palette which contrasts with the usual manifest exuberance. It also differs in its ambivalence. In Le Muguet, the bouquet glorifies the happiness of the couple hanging over it, to the left of the composition... The thick white painted strokes of the May flowers also have the softness of snowflakes.
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/de-magritte-indiana-regards-damateurs-italiens-pf1626/lot.7.html.................................

01/05/2024

Happy New Month !
"Happiness Keeps YOU SWEET, Trials Make YOU STRONG, Sorrows Keeps YOU HUMBLE, Success Keeps YOU GLOWING. Have a lovely new month."

01/05/2024

" Il quarto stato " / " The Fourth Estate " 1901
oil on canvas Height: 293 cm X Width: 545 cm
Museo del Novecento, Milano
The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907)🎨 portrays a group of workers on strike.
It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of a new social class - the proletariat - which becomes aware of its rights within the new industrial society.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo 👨‍🎨🎨 🇮🇹
Italian divisionist painter.
(Volpedo, Piedmont 1868 -- 1907)
" Il quarto stato " / " The Fourth Estate " 1901
oil on canvas Height: 293 cm X Width: 545 cm
Museo del Novecento, Milano
Il Quarto Stato è un dipinto inizialmente intitolato "Il cammino dei lavoratori". Rappresenta la grande forza di volontà di un percorso dell’autore attraverso numerosi dipinti tutti riguardanti il medesimo tema, ovvero lo sciopero dei lavoratori.
Il primo dipinto è gli Ambasciatori della fame, il secondo quadro è Fiumana e infine Il cammino dei lavoratori del 1898 è il bozzetto preparatorio al lavoro de 'Il quarto stato'. .....Successivamente fu mostrato in varie città del mondo fra cui Washington e Roma. Infine, negli anni ottanta, trovò la sua collocazione fissa a Milano, dapprima nella Galleria d’Arte Moderna e infine nel Museo del Novecento. ...................
The monumental painting Il Quarto Stato /The Fourth Estate by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868-1907)🎨 portrays a group of workers on strike.
It symbolises the social protest at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as the emergence of a new social class - the proletariat - which becomes aware of its rights within the new industrial society.
Pellizza finished Il Quarto Stato in 1901 after having worked on it for three years.
The painting represents the culmination of a long period of study by Pellizza on the topic of social reform and workers’ rights, producing other works like Ambasciatori della Fame (1892) and Fiumana (1896), the latter being on display at the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
https://www.tuttartpitturasculturapoesiamusica.com/2015/09/Giuseppe-Pellizza-daVolpedo.html?fbclid=IwAR1JFK0hI9IfiAq8ljNXBg1PkDobXANP88-bfoZPyrPblHh6tEzGz2eF_44
https://www.analisidellopera.it/il-quarto-stato-pellizza-da-volpedo/?fbclid=IwAR1vmNC0RDKJVeUlH-1RoEnRsPRmGf5PoTGXO-JL9eHtvqF17NS9nZI1KUw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pellizza_da_Volpedo?fbclid=IwAR09OQAp9JAeshfuFOYK0t2pe5vfEqpIQ2Hjwu1aEIRDGshiQ8C6yOaie1I
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Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo - Il quarto stato
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZa2TACB2tk

28/04/2024

Cathedral of Milan: Overall View of the Grand Church
Duomo di Milano: Vista dall'alto della Grandiosa CattedraleCathedral of Milan: Overall View of the Grand Church
Duomo di Milano: Vista dall'alto della Grandiosa Cattedrale

Cathedral of Milan: Overall View of the Grand Church
Duomo di Milano: Vista dall'alto della Grandiosa Cattedrale

© Pietro Madaschi - 360 VISIO - www.360visio.com

28/04/2024

La Vecchia Milano : Le lavandaie: Il Naviglio Pavese
nei primi anni '30.
foto della poetessa e fotografa Antonia Pozzi.

Il Naviglio Pavese e un esercito di lavandaie nei primi anni '30.
Un capolavoro di foto della poetessa e fotografa Antonia Pozzi.
Dal libro:
IL VIAGGIO NEL TEMPO 2 - Le foto più belle dalla pagina Facebook “Milano sparita e da ricordare”

Ordinabile sui principali store online, in qualsiasi libreria italiana o direttamente dal sito della casa editrice con disponibilità sempre immediata: https://www.youcanprint.it/il-viaggio-nel-tempo-2-le-foto-piu-belle-dalla-pagina-facebook-milano-sparita-e-da-ricordare/b/d8220469-0914-58cd-b7f2-f7430fc3a087

25/04/2024

23 aprile 1946: viene brevettata la Vespa, uno dei simboli del boom economico italiano.🛵🇮🇹

25/04/2024

FIRENZE Paintings 🎨🇮🇹
by
Telemaco Signorini 👨‍🎨🎨🇮🇹
pittore e incisore italiano.
Italian painter and etcher
(Florence 1835 - Florence 1901)
maggior esponente fiorentino del movimento detto dei “macchiaoli"

25/04/2024

Buon 25 Aprile! ❤️🇮🇹❤️

Buon 25 Aprile a tutti voi. Accanto alla Madonnina sventola il Tricolore (foto andrea cherchi)

13/04/2024

Antonio Meucci
(13 April 1808 – 18 October 1889)
Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone.
The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities supported celebrations of Meucci's 200th birthday in 2008 using the title "Inventore del telefono" (Inventor of the telephone).
The U.S. House of Representatives also honored Meucci in a resolution in 2002 for having had some role in the development of the telephone, although the U.S. Senate did not join the resolution and the interpretation of the resolution is disputed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci