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Beauty tips from the rebnaissance- don't try it at home
Renaissance beauty products: the age of mercury

Some say that beauty is pain, but nothing comes close to the torturous regimes Renaissance women exposed themselves to.

Brera Design District: Milan Design Week 2013

The fourth area in our #Swidesign map series is Brera, the go to district for design in Milan since Renaissance times.

Mathew Mc Conaughey credits his wife Camila Alves with a stable family life, which gives him the direction to choose his roles better. He opened up to Details Magazine in a feature for which he wore Dolce&Gabbana.
Family the source of Mc Conaughey’s renaissance

Hollywood star Mathew Mc Conaghey seems to have found himself. Not only is his career reaching the heights many expected long ago but having a family witi wife Camila Alves has changed his off screen life as well. He told all to Details magazine.

Bembo Tarots at Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan
Milan: Reading the past through tarot cards

Until April 7th at Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, finally on display again tarot cards that date back to the 15th century and the Renaissance, steeped in the history of Lombardy …

The top 5 artists of the Renaissance

There is much to say about art on Swide platform. Editor Elisa della Barba selected 5 of her favorite Renaissance artists.

Bianca Balti is the perfect Mamma

Bianca Balti’s svelte yet sumptuous form, kind eyes and bright smile make her the embodiment of the beautiful mother, almost like a Renaissance Madonna. Giampaolo Sgura captures these elements in the Dolce&Gabbana Jewellery Mamma campaign.

Tracing inspirations: Sicilian interiors

The Baroque movement is a natural consequence of the Renaissance period that put Italy back on the world map. It moved away from humanism and that restrained eulogy of the past grandeur of our peninsula, and built a new, contemporary and opulent context. The music, art and architecture, moved forward in leaps and bounds, and they’re still a huge influence in the arts today. In this collection of articles we will be tracing the single inspirations behind the Dolce&Gabbana Fall Winter 2013 collection to create a fuller understanding of the many rich elements and traditions which shaped the collection as a whole.

Flavio Lucchini: contemporary fashion art in a Ducal idyll

Flavio Lucchini, Italian fashion publishing master turned artist is exhibiting his most imporant works in the Renaissance Palace of Sabbioneta. Contemporary art and fashion live side by side in a unique Ducal setting.

A story written over 8000 years on the rocks of Val Camonica

Italy is known for its Renaissance art and it's great masters. But some of its greatest art dates from the prehistoric period. In Lombardy, in Italy's north, Valcamonica is a subalpine valley that is also the site of one of the world's most extensive collections of ancient rock drawings and carvings.

5 reasons for Matthew Mc Conaughey's renaissance

In an interview with Italina Vanity Fair Matthew McConaughey describes why he feels like a man reborn and how he put his career back on the fast track to box office and critical success

Laetitia Casta is back with a vengeance

2012 is looking like a good year for Laetitia Casta. The 34-year-old model turned actress seems to be enjoying something of a renaissance.

Claudio Monteverdi’s music: the bridge from Renaissance to Baroque

Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian violinist, singer and composer. His art flourished at the Gonzaga court in Mantua and in Venice, where he composed madrigals and some of the earliest operas, still admired today. His innovation and his talent for putting words, and feeling to music as well as dramaturgic tendencies, made Monteverdi the linchpin of the shift from Renaissance to Baroque music.