Hotel Michelangelo Resort tour Agios Fokas Kos Greece September 2011

One lap of the lovely hotel in Kos, Greece. Was shot at 6pm when it had just began to cool down, It sounds like it was windy but it was in fact a ...

the ikono blog: Michelangelo letters up for grabs as Renaissance ...

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On sale will be the archive of the man credited with being the father of Western art history: Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Artists chronicled the lives of the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance. The documents include 17 letters from Vasari's friend, Michelangelo, together with correspondence from five Renaissance popes and the 16th-century ruler of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici. The archive is subject to an Italian government order that it should never be removed from Vasari's house in Arezzo. But last October, Giuseppe Fanfani, the mayor of the city, was told by an official it had...