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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...e a member of the [[Accademia dell' Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female arti...
12: ...ino Tassi]] to decoration of the "volte" of ''Casino della Rose'' inside the [[Pallavicini Rospiglios...
18: ..., Artemisia also painted the ''[[Madonna col Bambino]]'' (''"The Virgin Mary with Baby"''), currently ...
20: ..., Prudenzia slipped into obscurity and little is known of her subsequent life.
24: ...sy with construction of a maison to celebrate the notable ancestor, he asked Artemisia to realize a pa... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ... illegitimate daughter of aspiring actress and piano teacher Romilda Villani and married engineer Ricc...
7: ... in the early 1950s playing bit parts in mostly minor Italian films, but she had an early brush with [...
13: ...r category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance.
15: ...r best-known films of this period are [[Peter Ustinov]]'s ''[[Lady L]]'' with [[Paul Newman]], [[Charl...
23: In [[1991]], Loren received an honorary Academy Award for her contribution to world c... - Clock (10086 bytes)
2: ...nt, an especially accurate one is called a [[chronometer]]. The clock in its modern form (24 hour clo...
3: [[Image:Montinari Milano.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A watch]]
11: The main purpose of a clock is not always to ''display'' the time.
14: ...h projects are developing CPUs based on [[asynchronous circuit]]s). Some computers also maintain time ...
27: The recurrent, periodic process (a [[metronome]]) is an [[oscillator]] and typically generates... - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ...e helped advance the study of [[anatomy]], [[astronomy]], and [[civil engineering]].
7: Leonardo was born in [[Anchiano]], near [[Vinci, Italy]]. He was an [[illegitima...
9: ...s "Leonardos", not "da Vincis". Presumably he did not use his father's name because of his illegitimat...
11: ...rked with [[Lorenzo di Credi]] and [[Pietro Perugino]].
16: ...fter two months in jail, he was acquitted because no witnesses stepped forward. For some time afterwar... - Regions of Italy (3031 bytes)
1: ...to adapt the principles and laws establishing autonomy and decentralization.
3: ...ltural grounds and on the presence of important minorities. Each region has an elected council and a '...
5: ...rthern regions are seeking greater powers and autonomy. The regions are headed by a Commissioner who s...
9: ...ed by the emergence of parties such as the [[Lega Nord]].
22: <tr><td>10. [[Liguria]]<td>[[Genoa]] (Genova) - Lute (15915 bytes)
5: ...se-tenor-renaissance-lute-04.jpg|thumb|8-course tenor Renaissance lute. This is a replica of a histori...
7: ... number of strings — makes lutes tedious if not difficult to tune. Thus lutenists share a joke w...
9: ...d bridge were historically made of ivory or bone, now more commonly of plastic. The frets are made of ...
15: ...ical images show the instrument being played with no support other than the arms. (Some modern players...
23: ...ment with the soft pads of the fingers and thumb (not with the nails, as is the modern practice for [[... - Christmas around the world (98033 bytes)
2: {{Refimprove|date=November 2007}}
10: ...te Christmas-like festivities even though they do not consider themselves Christians. Many customs, in...
12: ...ormer [[colony|colonies]] of Western powers with (nominal) [[Christian]] cultural heritage.
14: ...ecting a cultural interest in this Western phenomenon, and, sometimes, as part of retail marketing cam...
20: ...a few days before, while television stations are known to air Christmas films and cartoon specials pop...
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