ITALIAN CENTER OF THE WEST
The Sister City & County relationship, Torino, Italy
Utah's Former Consul of Italy Salt Lake City
Dr. Giovanni G. Maschero
Present the Free Lecture Series
Instructor
Dr. Alessandro A. Galvani
(Doctor in Education) Social historian, instructor at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (U of U), cultural concierge,
alumnus of the University of Bologna, at the ELI University of Utah, at Provincia di Milano (Direzione Centrale Affari
Sociali), at Regione Lombardia (Direzione Generale Istruzione), at the European Social Fund.
Inquisitor Popes, Swedish Queens, and Greek
Goddesses.
Baroque Art,
Culture, and Music from Italian Courts throughout Europe.
Rome, 1630. Imagine being in St.
Peter's Square. A pope explains to Bernini how to build the famous colonnade
using Egyptian obelisks. A mile away Caravaggio paints the most scandalous
artworks in Western culture. Two miles away a Swedish Queen hires musicians,
philosophers and scientists for her parties. Three miles away the Inquisition
silently works...
This was the cultural environment
where Bernini, Caravaggio, and Vivaldi created the Baroque style to impress,
entertain, and amuse people. Later J.S. Bach, Handel, Rubens, and Le Vau
exported this way-of-life all over Europe, from Moscow to Madrid, from Par- is
to Berlin, from Amsterdam to London. And we still enjoy their works, thanks to
a little town close to Florence where everything started: Bologna.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Time 6:00 pm to 8:00pm
451 STATE St. - Room 335
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Please Use The EAST entranceCome experience Mediterranean, through a slideshow and presentation.
A year-long journey: the year of Italian Culture in the United States. America discovers Italy.
Italy has declared 2013 the “Year of Italian Culture” in the United States and aims to present the best of Italian culture and enterprise in order to engage and enthuse Americans, and strengthen existing bonds and create
new ones. The journey seeks to encourage encounters at all levels of Italian society,
economy and institutions.
Italy’s brilliance and excellence are anchored in the present and driven by an unparalleled
past. Its innovation is clearly in forward motion, as Italy engages in projects that look
to the future.
Italian culture and identity will be presented and decoded through the kaleidoscope of
geniality that has forged Italian life and lifestyle: art, music, theatre, cinema, literature,
architecture and archaelogy, science, design, fashion; politics, law and economics, and, of course, cuisine.