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Category Archives: Italy
Giuseppe Verdi – ‘Revolutionary’ Composer
Day 257 of Colourisation Project – January 19 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Today’s colourisation subject, Giuseppe Verdi, known primarily for his operas, was one of the greatest and … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Italy, Music, Photography
Tagged Bellini, Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Il Risorgimento, Loredana Crupi, Rossini
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Lina Cavalieri – Venus on Earth
Day 232 of Colourisation Project – December 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Italian writer and poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio, called her “the personification of Venus on earth” and wrote that … Continue reading
Giacomo Puccini – Life Imitating Art
Day 206 of Colourisation Project – November 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. If there is any doubt as to whether life imitates art, you need delve no further … Continue reading
Enrico Caruso – the King of Tenors
Day 87 of Colourisation Project – August 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Idolized by millions throughout the world, Enrico Caruso died this day, August 2 in 1921. Universally acclaimed … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Italy, Music, Opera, Photography
Tagged Arturo Toscanini, Ben Watts, Covent Garden, Enrico Caruso, Everything But The Girl, Giacomo Puccini, La Boheme, La Scala, Loredana Crupi, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Milan, Pagliacci', Rigoletto, Ruggero Leoncavallo, The Night I Heard Caruso Sing, Vesti la giubba
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Right You Are – Luigi Pirandello
Day 52 of Colourisation Project – June 28 Luigi Pirandello, was born on this day in 1867, in Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Pirandello was not only one of Italy’s leading playwrights but also a novelist and short-story writer. In 1934 he … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Italy, Literature, Photography
Tagged 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature, Antonietta Portulano, Loredana Crupi, Lungi Pirandello, Right You Are (If You Think You Are) (1927), Six Characters in Search of an Author (1922), Sounds and Developments of Sounds in the Speech of Craperallis
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The Beating Heart of Italy – Giuseppe Mazzini
Day 46 of Colourisation Project – June 22 Born into a middle class family in Genoa, on this day in 1805, Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, journalist and activist for Italian independence and a unified democratic Republic of Italy. … Continue reading
