Amazing Illustrations and Posters Designed by Duilio Cambellotti in the Early 20th Century
Fine di Secolo, Acqua Progressiva Insuperabile, circa 1900
Italian applied artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor, and designer Duilio Cambellotti (1876–1960) was involved in the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, and his impact extended beyond the aesthetic and political to the social and political. His fidelity to agrarian motifs and versatility across a broad spectrum of visual and design disciplines have earned him recognition. Continue reading »
In 1996, Vogue Italia Featured a Photograph of Carla Bruni Taken by Javier Vallhonrat
Carla Bruni, a model and singer, was photographed by Javier Vallhonrat for Vogue Italia in 1996. Prior to becoming the French First Lady, she was known for her modeling and singing career. It is uncertain if she continues to sing currently. Continue reading »
Palermo Viejo: Photographer Captured Abandoned Vintage Cars in Italy
“Palermo Viejo” is a photography series by Brazilian Art Director Eduardo Fialho.
While studying advertising in Argentina, something caught Eduardo’s eye. he noticed many abandoned cars in the Palermo Viejo suburb, in Buenos Aires, and decided to document the beautiful decay of these neglected vintage cars. Continue reading »
Parasitic City Takes Root on the Foundations of a Decommissioned Highway Bridge
Back in 2010, a region of southern Italy announced a competition to decide how to reuse a stretch of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway, located between Sicily and Bagnara, with a focus on implementing renewable energy into the infrastructure. Continue reading »
Stoned Mutants in Grotesque and Surreal Paintings by Fabrizio Riccardi
Fabrizio Riccardi (Italian, b.1942,) one of the last few living “traditional” surrealist painters, was born in Rome, Italy, but grew up in Turin, where he completed his studies and began to develop his artistic skills. Continue reading »
Stunning Winners And Finalists Of The 2022 Italian Street Photography Festival
Forrest Walker, USA – 1st Place Winner
Here are the winners and finalists of the 2022 Italian Street Photo Festival (ISPF). Forrest Walker from the USA was awarded as the 1st Place winner. Here in this article, we are presenting the single photo winners and finalists, you can find other category winners from the below link. Continue reading »
Vulgar, Funny, and Avant-Garde: The Crazy Covers of Toiletpaper Magazine
Toiletpaper Magazine is an Italian art magazine founded in 2010 by artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. There is no text in the magazine. It’s a fun photo project in which Cattelan and Ferrari mock, with maximum abstract and surreal imagery, the modern advertising in which they have worked all their lives. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures Stunning Pictures Show The Decline Of The Church In Italy
Roman Robroek is a professional photographer from The Netherlands. He has a particular fondness for urban photography and has traveled worldwide to explore unique places filled with history, memories, and beauty. Whenever Roman would visit a new destination, he would often find himself looking into abandoned homes, empty buildings, and urban decay. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Tattoos Inspired By Scientific And Strange Subjects
Italian artist Michele Volpi creates tattoos inspired by scientific and strange subjects. Michele takes inspiration from illustrations of vintage science books to create unique monochromatic tattoos. Continue reading »
Photographer Continues to Capture Hiding Cats in Venice
According to Marianna Zampieri: “My name is Marianna and I am a photographer from Italy. I am passionate about taking cat photos! I am working on a photographic series named “Cats in Venice” since 2017, trying to photograph and tell something about each cat I can find in Venice, Italy. Continue reading »
This Strange World: Unique Illustrations by Victoria Semykina
Victoria Semykina is an artist based in Italy who draws pretty illustrations for books, magazines and just for fun. Often Victoria manages to hit very subtle nuances of landscapes and characters with a couple of simple strokes and create the most pleasant pictures. Continue reading »
Milo Manara Comic Art You’ve Probably Never Seen
Maurilio Manara, known professionally as Milo Manara was born September 12, 1945 in Lüsen, South Tyrol and is an Italian comic book writer and artist best known for his erotic approach to the medium. The author lives in Rome, Italy.
Slightly NSFW. Continue reading »
Chef David Rivillo Creates Mindblowing and Unique Pasta Designs
It’s hard for many of us to imagine better comfort food than pasta. Now imagine devouring a noodle that rather looks like a work of art. Chef David Rivillo is offering exactly that – the pasta he makes seems too beautiful to eat and has earned him almost 40K+ followers on Instagram. Continue reading »
Photographer Decided To Include People In Her Photographic Series “Cats In Venice” And Something Beautiful Happened
Ludovica And Kalypso
According to Marianna Zampieri: “My name is Marianna and I am a photographer from Italy. I am passionate about taking cat photos! Continue reading »
Beautiful Photos of Fiat X1/9, One of the First Truly Affordable Mid-Engine Sports Cars
The Bertone X1/9 is a two-seater sports car designed by Bertone and built by Fiat from 1972–1982 and subsequently by Gruppo Bertone from 1982–1989. Intended to be the first affordable mid-engined sports car, the X1/9 is notable for its sharp styling and impeccable handling. Continue reading »
“Transgenesis”: Giusy Amoroso’s Vivid Digital Imagery Takes Nature to Its Most Beautiful Extremes
Berlin-based digital artist Giusy Amoroso creates “the endless possibilities of the digital multiverse,” in her expansive 3D works. Continue reading »
Italian Defense Shoes With Spurs for Protection, 1955
In 1955 in Italy, “Defense Shoes”, complete with spurs on toes and heels to kick away sex pests, were designed by a Roman shoemaker to protect young girls from street. Police at the time referred to those harassing young women as “parrots” – because the girls said they repeated the same silly phrase all the time. Continue reading »
Brutal 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Lungo Touring Berlinetta
First shown at the 1935 London Motor Show, the 8C 2900A was a sports racer targeted to the gentleman driver, powered by a supercharged 2.9-liter inline eight-cylinder engine rated at 220 horsepower. Continue reading »
Bone Church of Rome: Amazing Vintage Photos Show Inside Rome’s Capuchin Crypt From the Late 19th Century
Popularly known as the Capuchin Crypt, the ossuary displays the bones of over 3,700 Capuchin friars, who died between 1528 and 1870. It is ornately decorated with skulls and bones displayed in the Baroque and Rococo styles, with a skeleton dressed as ‘Death’ standing in a niche. Continue reading »
The Animal Issue: Vogue Italia Presents an Issue Dedicated to The Beauty of The Animal World
According to Emanuele Farneti, the editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia and L’Uomo Vogue: “Like this time last year, we have decided to dedicate the January issue to the environment, once again coinciding with the publication of the charter of values signed by the editors-in-chief of Vogue from all over the world.” Continue reading »
GCDS 2021 Calendar Viva L’Italia by Nadia Lee Cohen
Nadia Lee Cohen’s photographs and films, heavily inspired by Americana and Britain in the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s, are veritable visions of saturated, surreal dreamscapes. Drawing upon the duality of the female form, fine art photographer and filmmaker Lee Cohen locks our optics upon the twisted paradise that lurks within her mind. Continue reading »
Italian Photographer Expresses His Inner World Through Emotional Photographs
Art is a doorway through the inner and the outer world, a form of manifestation of the unconsciousness, and a bridge between the divine and human life. The spotlight where emotions are revealed, represented into forms without a definite definition. Continue reading »
1959 Ghia Selene by Tom Tjaarda, an Amazing Concept From Future Past From Italy
A very talented man called Tom Tjaarda became one of GHIA’s main stylists, and he made a big impression with the 1959 Selene, a sort of super-sleek forward-control “people carrier”. Its follow-up, the Selene II of 1962, had a central driving seat and two rear seats facing backwards. Continue reading »
37,4°: A Photographic Project of Carlo Pettinelli
37.4 degrees is the limit temperature with which you are officially declared “healthy”. At 37.5 ° you enter the anti-Covid-19 control field (you cannot enter the workplace and in all those places where the temperature control at the entrance is in force). This is our life in these strange days and looking at the world with new eyes seems to be an obligatory path, to be taken with decision, not so much as a defense from the invisible (for that there are norms and common sense), but for understand our time. Continue reading »
17th Century Italian Wine Windows, Which Were Used During the Plague, Are Open Again Due to The Coronavirus Pandemic
Small wine windows, or buchette del vino as they’re known in Italian, were used in Florence during the Italian Plague so palaces could sell off surplus wine without touching the lower classes. Hundreds of years later, innovative Florentines have reopened wine windows to dispense everything from coffee to cocktails in a COVID-friendly way. Continue reading »
