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A n**e portrait of a crouching woman has been discovered beneath the surface of a painting by Pablo Picasso, titled The Blind Man's Meal, housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and thanks to Artificial Intelligence and 3D printing it has been recreated.
This is The Lonesome Crouching N**e, initially revealed in part by a superimposed X-ray fluorescence image; the recreation of this hidden work is thanks to Oxia Palus, a company that uses technology to bring lost art back to life. To succeed, the company used XRF imaging and image processing to try to define the outline of the hidden painting; then Artificial Intelligence stepped in and added brush strokes to the portrait in the famous artist's style.
The next step was to create a height map of the portrait to give it texture, and finally the image was printed on canvas using 3D printing.

The n**e of a woman that remained hidden for a whopping 118 years is part of Picasso's blue period.
"At the time Picasso painted The Lonesome Crouching N**e and The Blind Man's Meal he was poor and the artist's materials were expensive, so he probably painted over the earlier work reluctantly," commented George Cann, one of the founders of Oxia Palus along with Anthony Bourached. "While X-ray images are useful for revealing the images that were painted over, Artificial Intelligence adds another layer to our analysis," said the latter.

"Continuing developments in machine learning and 3D printing should make the work even more accurate in the future," they concluded.
The recreated work will be on public display from October 13-17, 2021 in London at deeep, a trade show dedicated to Artificial Intelligence.

The work of Lingeri and Terragni, illustrated in the exhibition through the original materials, conserved in the Lingeri Archive in Milan and never exhibited in their entirety, is put into dialogue with the Ideal City, an iconic masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance and a key work in the collections of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche. Among them, other works by contemporary Italian architects such as Aimaro Isola, Andrea Branzi and Franco Purini, who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings. The exhibition therefore proposes to give space to a composite vision of Dante's eschatology, comparing the works of contemporary Italian architects who have reinterpreted the "section" of the Divine Comedy through a series of original drawings, in dialogue with the two ideal visions of the Danteum and the Ideal City. The objective is therefore to recompose the city of God, or rather the city of Dante's thought, and the city of men, also through a clarification of the visual and conceptual relationship between Dante's traditional imagery and its current interpretation, which is used as a starting point for a broader reflection aimed at looking at the complex and changing comparison between story and image, filtered through powerful and original visions that reflect on the fragile nature of the contemporary world reread through the eyes of Dante.

The Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino is celebrating the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death with a special exhibition: "City of God. City of Men. Dante's Architectures and Urban Utopias," curated by Luigi Gallo and Luca Molinari, scheduled from November 25, 2021 to March 27, 2022, focusing on the influence Dante's imagery has had on the vision of artists, architects and illustrators. In particular, the exhibition focuses on the project of the rationalist architects Pietro Lingeri and Giuseppe Terragni, who at the end of the 1930s, on behalf of the Fascist regime, elaborated the image of the , a building that was never realized, which was supposed to give shape to Dante's imaginary in an ideal architecture full of symbolism. It was the first time that architecture was called upon to give habitable form to Dante's masterpiece, but the outbreak of World War II made the undertaking impossible.

The should have housed a museum and a library: it had been proposed to the government by Rino Valdemeri, then president of the Italian Dante Society, in 1938. The plan was to finish the work in time for the Universal Exhibition in Rome in 1942: Valdemeri's idea was to make the an eloquent symbol of Fascist Italy (the lawyer also prepared a Statute in which he proposed to erect "in this era, in which the will and genius of the Duce are realizing the imperial dream of Dante, a temple to the greatest poet of the Italians", which would have to "implement celebrations of Dante's word, considered the primary source of Mussolini's great creation", to house a library "complete with everything that could be of use to scholars of Dante", and "to suggest and help all those initiatives that foster and attest to the imperial character of Fascist Italy"). However, only the two authors and Benito Mussolini, who gave his consent after the project was presented to him in November 1938 at Palazzo Venezia, were able to see the plates together. Now, for the first time, the whole project will be open to several eyes.

The Park will also organize special visits to the construction site of the House of Orion and the Garden (with restricted access and differentiated routes for a guided tour in safety), where work is underway on the final restoration and coverage preparatory to the permanent opening of the entire area. In the houses there are important decorations (the mosaic of Orion with the unpublished iconography and the paintings of the triclinium of the house of the garden), also emerged and secured during the excavations of the Regio V, connected to the wider intervention of securing the excavation fronts, provided by the Grande Progetto Pompei.

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The discovery dates back to 2019, during the interventions of the Grande Progetto Pompei for the securing and consolidation of the historical excavation fronts. In view of the exceptional nature of the decorations and in order to restore the complete configuration of the premises (located in the widening at the intersection of the alley of the Silver Wedding and the alley of the Balconies), in 2020 the Archaeological Park of Pompeii decided to launch a further intervention with the aim of completing the excavation and restoring the rooms and decorative apparatuses present. At the same time, a new wooden cover has been created to protect the painted counter, and the reconstruction of the ancient cantilevered meniano (balcony) has begun, on which part of the original cocciopesto flooring found during the excavation has been placed.
The thermopolis was inaugurated this morning at 11:30 by the Director General of Museums, Massimo Osanna (former director of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii: under his direction were conducted the excavations that brought to light the structure) and the Director General of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Gabriel Zuchtriegel.

It will open to the public from August 12 the thermopoly of the Regio V of Pompeii, which was discovered in 2019. The thermopolis (an ancient food store: there are about eighty in Pompeii) was brought to light in an area of the ancient city that had never been investigated before, with extraordinary visits to the site of the House of Orion and the House of the Garden. The termopoli, where drinks and hot food were served, as the name indicates of Greek origin, preserved in large dolia (jars) embedded in the masonry counter, were very common in the Roman world, where it was customary for the lower middle class to consume the prandium (the meal) outside the home. The value of the thermopolium of Regio V lies in the decoration of the painted counter: in fact, it presents a Nereid riding a hippocampus and scenes of still life and animals, which probably allude to the food that was prepared, sold and consumed in the restaurant.

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The manuscript of "The Hundred and Twenty Days of S***m" will be presented at a conference in 2022, in the presence of specialists and intellectuals, with the aim of analyzing the figure of Sade, the reception of his work over the centuries and its significance today.
"This exceptional enrichment of the national collections," communicates the French Ministry of Culture, "is one of the most important in recent years for the BnF. The Ministry of Culture and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France would like to thank the patrons who contributed to these acquisitions."

It was recovered only many years later, in 1904, by the psychiatrist Iwan Bloch, who printed it believing that it was an exceptional document also from the scientific point of view, given the descriptions, in the novel, of many cases of psychiatric interest. Purchased in 1929 by Viscount Charles de Noailles, it was reprinted in the thirties, without the translation errors of the version published by Bloch. Then purchased in 1982 by collector Gérard Nordmann, it was then bought again, for 7 million euros, in 2014 by entrepreneur Gérard Lhéritier. After Lhéritier's company went into liquidation, the manuscript was declared a "national treasure" in 2017 and subsequently returned to the market: 4.55 million euros were needed to secure it, and the French state, at the beginning of the year, launched an appeal, through the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, to find patrons willing to pay the sum.
The appeal finally struck a chord: the banker Emmanuel Boussard, founder of the Boussard & Gavaudan investment fund, responded by making available the entire sum needed to complete the purchase. Boussard's grandfather was the curator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal between 1943 and 1964, and so, explained the French Ministry of Culture, the businessman wanted to demonstrate his attachment to the institution.

The most important existing manuscript of the Marquis de Sade has long been considered lost: it is the first draft of the novel "The Hundred and Twenty Days of S***m", a work with an extraordinary history.
Written in 1785, during his imprisonment in the Bastille prison, the object itself is unique: a roll of 12 meters long, consisting of 33 glued sheets, 11.3 centimeters wide.
Sade was transferred from the Bastille on July 4, 1789, ten days before the French Revolution, and instructed his wife Renée-Pélagie to collect his belongings from the cell, including the manuscript: his wife did not remember until July 14, and the Marquis lost his items, including, it was thought, the manuscript itself.

Due to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the city is restoring the exterior facades of its most precious symbols, such as Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Montmartre. As for the Eiffel Tower, the color change will take it from the current "Eiffel brown" (with which we are accustomed to seeing it since 1968, it is divided into three shades from the lightest at the top to the darkest at the bottom, to ensure a uniform visual perception of the structure and give it momentum) to the future "yellow-brown", a more sparkling shade that will give it numerous golden reflections on the entire surface. Yellow-brown, moreover, is the color that its visionary inventor Gustave Eiffel envisioned for his creation in 1907. "The Eiffel Tower will look more 'gold', golden, like the Olympic medals and the years that Paris, France and Europe are preparing to live when the pandemic is over," Patrick Branco Ruivo, general manager of the Société d'Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel, the company that manages the monument, commented optimistically.

The controversy died down when the construction work was completed, in the face of the immense popular success that it enjoyed (2 million visitors were reported during the 1889 Exposition). Initially it was destined to remain standing for only 20 years, nevertheless its permanence was saved by the scientific experiments that Eiffel promoted, in particular by the first radiographic transmissions, then telecommunications: radio signals from the Tower to the Pantheon in 1898, military radio station in 1903, first public radio transmission in 1925, then television on TNT more recently. The Eiffel Tower receives (at least according to pre-pandemic data) almost 7 million visitors per year, of which about 75% are foreigners, a figure that has made it the most visited paid monument in the world.

The construction of the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 on the occasion of the Universal Exhibition, which marked the centenary of the French Revolution. Its construction is historically remembered as a true technical feat, completed in record time: 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to create an iron giant weighing over 10 thousand tons. However, the engineer Gustave Eiffel found himself in the sights of the press and intellectuals of the time: the high secular cathedral, which sanctioned the entry of Paris into the age of modernity, was the subject of an appeal signed by, among others, Charles Gounod, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas (son), François Coppée and William Bouguereau, who called "an ink stain on the hateful shadow of the obnoxious bolted sheet metal column".

The Olympic Games are a sporting event that occurs every four years that involves competition between the world's best athletes in almost every sporting discipline practiced on five continents.
The Olympic flag, one of the most recognized symbols in the world, depicts five intertwined rings on a white field, symbolizing the five continents. The colors chosen are present in the flags of all nations, so their combination symbolizes all countries, while the intertwining of the rings represents the universality of the Olympic spirit.

The name Olympic Games was chosen to recall the ancient Olympic Games that took place in Ancient Greece at the city of Olympia, in which the best Greek athletes competed.
The Ancient Olympic Games were athletic and religious celebrations, held every four years in the city of Olympia, Greece, historically from 776 BC to 393 AD.
In ancient times, a total of 292 editions of the Olympic Games were held. During these Olympics, wars were suspended by a truce and were also used by various Greek-speaking historians as a chronological reference to date the events.
Baron Pierre de Coubertin at the end of the 19th century had the idea of organizing games similar to those of ancient Greece.

In the silence of a substantially empty Olympic Stadium, the Tokyo 2020 kick off after a year of waiting.
A spectacle with an Italian brand, signed by Balich Wonder Studio.
Naomi Osaka 大坂なおみ, tennis player, lights the Olympic tripod, after Emperor Nahruhito had declared the Olympics open.
A profound choreography from the first minutes: an athlete runs at home, due to lockdown, on her treadmill; another trains on the rowing machine.
Alone, the athletes enter isolated, remembering that each one had to train on his own, often at home, to be able to be present.
Then the reconstruction, a piece of wood after another, with the work of the whole world to succeed in realizing a dream that seemed madness: to build with that wood, piece after piece, the five circles.

Naples has been chosen as the inaugural stage of the ART&more project and the work has been realized on a PVC sheet three hundred meters long and 11 meters wide that has left free both the bike path and the sidewalk and that will remain visible and usable to the citizens, without any limitation or restriction of space, until July 21. Similar projects have been experimented in other parts of the world, where very long streets have been decorated with rainbows and other designs. In this case it is a more complex and elaborate collective work of large dimensions.

The work of street art is part of the project ART&more. It is 3300 square meters of murals drawn, in just 3 days, directly on a sheet stretched on the cobblestones of Via Caracciolo, in correspondence of the Rotonda Diaz and Lido Mappatella, between the intersection with Piazza della Repubblica until the corner of Viale Anton Dohrn.
"Odyssey complete - comments Jorit - The work is inaugurated. Proud to live in Naples".

The Naples waterfront is colored with three square kilometers of murals by Neapolitan street artists - Jorit, Shaone, IABO WORLD, Luca Zeus40 Caputo, TRES, Yele, El Nigro Tattoo, Enzo Cref and Cocchia - and students from the ABANA - Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.
A colossal work visible even from the sky for the lucky tourists who arrive in the city by plane. The mega-mural was inaugurated on Friday 16 July 2021 at the Rotonda Diaz.

The opening of the restoration site of the Villa of Diomede in the Archaeological Park of Pompeii is an extraordinary event.
Only 100 privileged visitors were guided by technicians and restorers of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii participating in the event entitled ''Su il sipario! Cantiere in scena", an integral part of the "Grande Progetto Pompei".

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It is the refined decoration of the mosaic vault that for the first time we see not only in the bright colors, but also in the leaves, intertwined branches and fruits that were to be drawn on the entire ceiling.

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We are in the Mercury Baths, in the room called the "inverted fig".
However, a stroke of a wet brush was enough to make the day exceptional, with an explosion of colors: green, yellow, red, blue, in shades spread over hundreds of glass paste tesserae.

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The dig revealed a large number of valuable archaeological finds, such as jewellery, coloured pottery, beetle amulets and mud bricks bearing seals of .
The team began excavations on the west bank of near the , some 500 km (300 miles) south of the capital .

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It was unearthed within weeks of the excavation starting in September 2020.
The city dates to the reign of , one of Egypt's most powerful pharaohs, who ruled from 1391 to 1353 BC.
The city continued to be used by Ay and , whose nearly intact tomb was discovered in the by British Howard Carter in 1922.

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The discovery of a 3.000 year old city that was lost to the sands of 🇪🇬 has been hailed as one of the most important archaeological finds since Tutankhamun's tomb.
Famed Egyptologist announced the discovery of the "lost golden city" near on Thursday. He said the find was the largest ancient city, known as , ever uncovered in Egypt.

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The was the main square of the city, open only to people on foot. The Forum of is one of the few of the world in which the honorary statues are not concentrated in the center of the square, but arranged on the sides or even under the arcade.

During the , was found among the rubble of the cell a colossal bust of a seated male character, probably part of the of worship, identified as . Hence the hypothesis that the temple was originally dedicated to Jupiter and then transformed into the main temple of the city, the , located in the as in most of the colonies founded by .

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Pompeii's largest residence derives its name from a small statue that was found in its entrance.
The occupies an entire city block and was full of paintings on the walls and large .

Its great quality has led some experts to think that this artifact dates back to late (200 BC) or that it is a very beautiful copy of a original.

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The volcano 🌋is the perfect background: its proximity gives the idea of how disastrous the eruption was on the nearby cities.

But history gave us a gift: the miracle to live a day in the past, walking along the street of the ancient city of .

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