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Florence
We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
Tanya Ellison - (27/08/06)

Venice
This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

BERLIN - Renaissance portraits

An exciting new show opens in Berlin next week. Anyone on a Berlin city break should think of popping in to see Renaissance Faces at the Staatliche Museen in the city. Taking our Berlin mp3 tour will make for an even better city break.

 The Staatliche Museen, Berlin, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are organizing a spectacular exhibition on the art of portraiture in Renaissance Italy.

  Beautiful women and wealthy merchants carry us away to Florence and Venice. Schemers, courtiers, and military commanders tell their stories. Great museums will be sending masterworks from Donatello to Leonardo da Vinci to the Bode-Museum.

  Under the title Renaissance Faces, the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) will present a large exhibition in 2011-12 on the evolution of the Italian portrait during the fifteenth century. Berlin's Bode-Museum, which reopened in 2006, is the ideal site for this project, since Wilhelm von Bode conceived it as a museum of the Renaissance.

  Italian portraiture evolved under the powerful influence of precursors in antiquity. Its essential features were an incipient naturalism and a search to characterize psychologically the people depicted.

  The exhibition illustrates this thematic richness in all its diversity. It includes paintings, sculptures, medals, and drawings. The criterion for organization is based on regional and functional focuses: Florentine portraits by artists from Donatello and Masaccio to Verrocchio and Botticelli are presented. The art of Italian courts is represented by artists from Pisanello to Mantegna and Francesco Laurana, and there are works from Venice and northern Italy by

Antonello da Messina and the Bellini.



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