Umberto I of Italy

films arrived in India, the movement was in crisis in Italy. In 1952 some of the well known specimens of the movement came to India at the International Film Festival organised by Films Division. Though films from 23 countries came, neorealist films received special mention in the popular reports of magazines such as Filmfare and Chitrabani. ‘Bicycle thief’, especially impacted Satyajit Ray who is known to have said “if I ever made Pather Panchali I would make it in the same way”. Also in the…

is a difference in perception of Mary in the two figures, one is perceived as the “delicate maiden” whereas the other as the “queen of heavens”. This difference in perception could be attributed to the posture of the two Madonna’s . According to Umberto Baldini, a historian of the renaissance time, “Michelangelo (had) engaged in the search for and almost architectonic solemnity, which instills a new moral and physical content” in the sculpture. The posture of Mary being seated upright in the…

Sensibly, the church preserved it, consecrating it on May 13, 609 when it was given to pope Boniface and yet the Pantheon is still now a place of worship. Later it was turned into a memorial chapel for the kings of Italy in 1870 in which the tombs of Vittorio Emanuele II, Umberto I, and Margherita of savoy and as well the famous renaissance painter Raphael and his fiancée Maria Bibbiena are buried in the pantheon. During the renaissance era, it became very popular to bury both famous architects…