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New Trendy Restaurant: Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi - Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone.  Just off the Via Montenapoleone is the Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi one of the finest museum homes in Europe.  Visit the palazzo’s fascinating rooms in which nineteenth century interiors are embellished by the outstanding collections of Renaissance art and furniture, then eat in the trendy restaurant, Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone that has just moved from it’s original location on the Via Montenapoleone and is now situated in the stables and in the courtyards of the museum.  Il Salumaio now defines itself as a delicatessen, café-bistro and restaurant.

Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone.  The indoor dinning rooms are situated in the old stable of the Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi.  A plate of Tagliatelle with Porcini Mushrooms was delicious.

Singer songwriter  Rufus Wainright.

Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone.  In the vaulted frescoed Sala del Camino is housed the delicatessen section for which Il Salumaio is famous for.

Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone.  The Panna Cotta with Almond Milk and Peaches was most enjoyable. The subtle taste of almonds and vanilla in the panna cotta worked well with the crunchy peaches.

 

Il Salumaio di Montenapoleone. Popular with the fashion crowd it is a great place for good food and people spotting:  at lunch during fashion week, I spotted; American Canadian singer songwriter Rufus Wainright, American Vogue’s Grace Coddington, Armani’s Gianluca Passi de Preposulo and his father Alberto Passi di Preposulo, president of the Ville Venete, Hillary Recordati, Paola Caovilla Larusmiani’s Guglielmo Miani, Martina Mondadori, Marilene and Carlo Alberto Corneliani, as well as, these adorable and very well behaved Maltese dogs.

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Arco della Pace: Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2012 collection – the venue.   The venue for the Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2012 collection was once again the impressive Arco della Pace or Arch of Peace which rises prominently behind the Sforzesco Castle.  Built during the Napoleon rule, to celebrate the glories of the young French emperor, the monument was begun in 1807 by architect Louis Cagnola, but was interrupted by the defeat of Waterloo and was later completed in 1838, by Emperor Francis I of Austria. The neo-classical marble opera is decorated with sculptures and Corinthian columns: on top beautiful decorative bronzes of six horses lead a wagon led by Peace.  

Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2012 collection.  The exquisite Roberto Cavalli Spring Summer 2012 collection celebrates the Tuscan designer’s fortieth anniversary: gold – sequins - animal prints – lace – tiaras – romantic – chiffon – 1920’s pleats and drop waist – modern day elegance - paillettes – sexy smoky eyes – black – color – floral prints – tuxedos – sensuous, all describe the fabulous collection.

Roberto Cavalli S/S 2012 collection

  Barbara Gandolfi and Jean-Paul Belmondo

Nadege

Roberto Cavalli S/S 2012 collection

Roberto Cavalli S/S 2012 collection

 

Courtney Love

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Universita Statale:  Missoni Summer 2012 collection – The Venue.  The venue for the past few seasons for the Missoni shows is the Universita Statale, the university is based in “la Ca Granda”, or the big house, the name once used by the Milanese people to describe the huge Ospedale Maggiore complex.  Founded in 1456 by the Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza, the gigantic complex was built by Tuscan architect Antonio Avelino, known as Filarete to provide medical care for the city’s poorest people.

Missoni Summer 2012 collection.   The Missoni woman has just arrived home from an all night party and wears dancing dresses. Spectacular swinging fringes and light, floaty ruffles.  Bias cuts, asymmetric and mischievous revealing constructions, that flirt with the lines of the body and make heads turn.  She is a free spirit, that charms with her spontaneity.

 

Angela Missoni talks to the Italian press.

Margherita, Tai and Rosita Missoni

Teresa Maccapani Missoni

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – make up # 1. The make up was designed by Lucia Pieroni and used M.A.C. products.

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – make up # 2. The above make up sketch  as applied on a model.

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – make up # 3. International make up artist Lucia Pieroni used M.A.C. products “It’s sweaty sexy flamenco inspired, as if you had been dancing all night, thick eyebrows, a shine on nose and cheekbones, shady eyes, a little bit smudgy in a sexy way, very monochromatic.” Lucia explains.

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – make up # 4.  Nails designed by Missoni for Minx Nails had a very Op-Art effect.

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – hair # 1.     Eugene Souleiman, Wella Professionals global creative director for care and styling was being interviewed by Mediaset’s Valentina Malfa. He describes the hairstyle “It has a clubby feel, as if you had been dancing in the hot summer night.  To give the hair texture and a perfect setting, I rubbed the roots with a Wella paste and dried it with a hairdryer which sets the paste.”

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – hair # 2.     The back of the hairstyle, which was held in place by a pretty enameled snake comb.

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – accessories # 1.  Round or ruffled flat bags  or charming fans to cool down a party night.

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – accessories # 2.  Colorful glasses with glazed metal frames, which turn on on the gaze.

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – accessories # 3. Sandals adorned in bright plastic flowers and high heels of plexiglass enhancing her sensual walk.

Missoni Summer 2012 collection – accessories # 4.  Shawls around the neck to hide her deep spectacular neckline, earings, bracelets and necklaces drip with small charms, playful gadgets and souvenirs.

 

 

Missoni Summer 2012 collection.  With carefree sensuality she puts together light organzines and transparent knits, solid colors, prints and patterns, unique jungle motives and precious patchworks of Raschel lace.

Note: the  sexy 1940’s inspired corset under the skirt and the frilly fan.

Giovanna Battaglia, Stefano Tonchi, Margherita Maccapani Missoni, Anna dello Russo and Eugenie Niarchos 

Maria Mulas

Missoni Summer 2012 collection. The 2012 Missoni bikini.

Gilles Bensimon

Gerlinde Hobel Geulfenbein

Missoni Summer 2012 collection.   The Missoni woman is coquette, she loves flying into the night, having fun, hanging out until morning with the same dress on.  A dress that she makes her own with great naturalness and special inherit skill in accessorizing.

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Venice: Mindful Hands. Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Venice: Mindful Hands. Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The large exhibition entitled Mindful Hands. Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini are on show at the foundation on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, until January 8. Around 120 works from the collection of 238 Mediaeval and Renaissance miniatures acquired by Vittorio Cini from the Libreria Antiquaria Hoepli in Milan in 1939-1940, as well as, a select group of particularly fine illuminated codices, are also on display. The Cini miniature collection is one of the most important of its kind in the world. It is made up of illuminated leaves and cuttings of initials, mostly from liturgical works (graduals and psalteries), comparable both in type and quality to other works in major museums of the world.

 Miniatore Veneziano cosidetto – Giustino del fu Gherardino da Forli

iniziale ritagliato da stesso Graduale – seconda meta XIV secolo

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Maestro dell’Antifonario Q

Antifonario Comune del Tempo – S. Vescovo Conessore

seconda meta XV secolo

http://www.cini.it/en/

 

Mindful Hands

Masterpieces of Illumination from the Fondazione Giorgio Cini

The exhibition is produced by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in collaboration with Studio Michele De Lucchi and Factum Arte, with the support of the Helen Hamlyn Trust and the contribution of Pirelli. The installation and layout designed by the Studio Michele De Lucchi, above, is inspired by the settings and atmosphere of the Mediaeval illumination tradition, translated into a contemporary key.

 

 Miniatore Veneziano detto Maestro T. Ve.  

attivo a Venezia 1530-1565

Melchiorre Salomon in preghiera di fronte a Christo – L

Venezia incoronata come Giustizia – R

Venezia 1561

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Miniatore Veneziano detto Maestro manierista

attivo Venezia 1555-1574c.

Allegoria di Venezia della Fama e di san Nicolo di Bari

1563 c.

 

Maestro del Matrirologio dei battuti Neri di Ferrara

Attivo Ferrara XV secolo

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Maestro del Plinio di Pico?

Attivo Ferrara XV secolo

Martirologio della confraternita dei Battuti Neri di Ferrara

Crocifissione – 9v C.

Ferrara XV

The room conjures up the atmosphere of the penitential and meditational itineraries of the Mediaeval confraternity of the Battuti Neri of Ferrara and the full significance of one of the books they used, the Martirologio (Martyrology). Here the visitor is surrounded by enormous enlargements, thanks to Adam Lowe’s Factum Arte (experts on digital techniques applied to the conservation, reproduction and interpretation of works of art), of ten of the most emblematic miniatures in the codex. The dramatic atmosphere of the room in semi-darkness is heightened by a powerful sound installation: recordings of pre-polyphonic singing made in the mid-20th century by Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a Benedictine monk in the monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore and also a renowned musicologist.

 

Giovan Pietro Birago

Attivo a Milano 1471-1513

Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis per Annum

Milano 1493-1495

This room is devoted to the Cini Offiziolo (Book of Hours): the whole of the left wall is occupied by a huge installation lining up enlargements and one-to-one scale reproductions of each of the illuminated pages of the little book, while a video illustrates the scanning techniques and the making of a facsimile of it.

 

Offiziolo - Book of Hours

A facsimile, of the Offiziolo, which visitors can touch and leaf through was made by Factum Arte who devised a system based on a LED-lit prism with a mirror on one side to obtain high-resolution photographs of each individual page without ever applying any pressure on the very delicate object.

 

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