The tourist card to discover what’s best in the city easily and cost effectively Home / Places / Museums and Collections Site/minisite/other: http://www.coviliarte.com Informations & PriceLink: http://www.coviliarte.com/vademecum_casamuseocovili.pdf (in Italian) Possibility of dedicated opening every day and at any time http://www.coviliarte.com at the Palazzo degli Scalzi in Sassoferrato (Ancona) opens the seventy-third edition of the International Art Review | G curated by Federica Facchini and Massimo Pulini A monographic exhibition of contemporary artist Giovanni Manfredini (Pavullo nel Frignano 1963) in dialogue with eight previously unpublished paintings by seventeenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Salvi known as “Sassoferrato” and two by Alessandro Mattia da Farnese The latter’s two paintings (Madonna and Child with Child in her arms and St both from private collections) confirm a close kinship with Sassoferrato’s style and open up new developments of study delineating with great probability that Sassoferrato’s workshop was not as monolithic as it was believed but had other contacts and collaborations of a high level.This edition concludes a three-year period conceived as a double research project on the ancient and the contemporary through a comparison of the works of two artists Starting from the profound understanding of what was who distinguished himself for a pictorial research oriented to the recovery of Renaissance values placing himself in the opposite direction to the trends of his time the curators reiterated the ideal creative parallel grafted in these last two years with the works and research of Nicola Samorì and Ettore Frani is an artist who precisely in these last decades of study has offered continuous and important surprises as well as achieving higher and higher results in international auctions This year the dialogue will be with the works of Giovanni Manfredini who lives and works between Modena and Milan They will be installed in the spaces of Palazzo degli Scalzi and extraordinarily in those of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo Giovanni Manfredini’s art focuses its research on the body its sacredness and the salvific and pacifying light that redeems its materiality Combining performance and existentialism with explicit references to sacred art his works arise from the contact of his own body on a surface treated with carbon black veils capable of registering its mark Body parts materialize spectrally from darkness: it is hands fragments of the chest that break through a dark layer of the painting and reveal themselves luminously The slow paint work that follows further increases the sculptural dimension of the figures distancing them from their original performative expressiveness Manfredini has been working on the body for years with slow research that has taken his work from the “attempts at existence” of the early period to an increasingly self-conscious pictorial statement in which light defines ecstatic and spiritual images that evoke seventeenth-century painting There is nothing narrative in Giovanni Manfredini’s works What is revealed calls to mind expressive forms close to a sacred matrix iconography Hours Palazzo degli Scalzi: Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m one of the most important automotive events of the year which is set to take place from May 18th to 21st GTspirit will be attending this momentous rally while providing full coverage through this live blog This year’s edition is extra special because it marks the 90th Anniversary of Mille Miglia The first leg will see drivers rally from Brescia to Padova having passed through Montecchio Maggiore That leg will see drivers pass through Ferrara Pavullo nel Frignano and Pavullo nel Frignano Over 450 cars will be taking part in this year’s Mille Miglia. GTspirit will has a bigger team this year, one with BMW and another with Mercedes-Benz. For Mercedes-Benz, we will concentrate on photography and ambiance of the rally while the BMW team will get to enjoy a full nostalgic drive in a 1937 BMW 328, car #142. A full list of participants can be found here. We will share more about our cars and preparations in our live blog below! You can track Mille Miglia 2017 action here. was an open-road endurance race which took place in Italy twenty-four times from 1927 to 1957 Like the older Targa Florio and later the Carrera Panamericana the Mille Miglia made Gran Turismo sports cars like Alfa Romeo Many of these cars fetch multi-million doller prices at auctions today where cars are released at one-minute intervals with larger professional-class cars going before slower cars This made organisation simpler as marshals did not have to be on duty for as long a period and it minimised the period that roads had to be closed cars were assigned numbers according to their start time while the first cars had started at 21:00 the previous day so most competitors had to start before midnight and arrived after dusk – if at all The Italians continued to dominate their race after the war now again on a single big lap through Italy Mercedes made another good effort in 1952 with the underpowered Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing scoring second with the German crew Karl Kling/Hans Klenk that later in the year would win the Carrera Panamericana Few other non-Italians managed podium finishes in the 1950s Mercedes made another attempt at winning the MM this time with careful preparation and a more powerful car the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR which was based on the Formula One car (Mercedes-Benz W196) entirely different from their sports cars carrying the 300 SL name Moss/Jenkinson arrived in Brescia in their Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR with the now famous #722 setting the event record at an average of 157.650 km/h (97.96 mph) which was fastest ever on this 1,597 km (992 mi) variant of the course not to be beaten in the remaining two years The race was banned after two fatal crashes in 1957 the event resumed as a rallying-like round trip at legal speeds with a few special stages driven at full speed the “Mille Miglia” has been reborn as a regularity race for classic and vintage cars which had attended (or were registered) to the original race The route (Brescia-Rome round trip) is similar to that of the original race maintaining the point of departure / arrival in Viale Venezia in Brescia We’re on the final stage of the Mille Miglia 2017 and the final lunch stop was nothing short of astonishing with all of the SLs lining up under the sun We even bumped into our BMW 328 being driven by Des It’s going to emotional finishing the thousand miles and not waking up to hundreds of race cars in the morning The 300 SL squad have left Parma for Cremona followed by Mantova Yesterday was the longest stage of MM with a 14 hour journey particularly in the dark with they gigantic headlamps The Mercedes-Benz crew just rolled trough the beautiful town of Viterbo The showers have held off but we’re all struggling with a lack of sleep I’m tired and cold and it is raining again If it wasn’t so much fun I would feel really miserable right now Day three is a go and will take us from Rome to Parma unpredictable and torrential downpours drenching the majority of cars Last night the skies around the city were illuminated by flashes of lightening as many roads flooded The forecast is set to clear…we hope it will Live from Terni…the atmosphere is a pure thrill The Mercedes-Benz team are motoring along in a jaw dropping convoy with no less than five 300 SLs including those being driven by Berndt Mylander There was a special stage in Ferrara and the San Marino lunch is an hours away – starting to regret skipping breakfast for an extra 10 minutes of sleep The Mercedes-Benz crew are on the road towards the start line As the sun set yesterday you could really feel “the magic” of Mille Miglia Thousands of locals for Padova crowded the gorgeous park as the cars rolled through Many chanted “Forza Ferrari!” As Toto Wolff led the crew through in the Panamericana Here’s a gallery from the afternoon and the magic of the darkness We made it to the end of sector one just in time A live video of the Mille Miglia 2017 starting grid Having arrived in Brescia it was time to settle the final formalities prior to the start tomorrow First I had to get to Fiera di Brescia; the exhibition space that is the location for the scrutineering and driver registration for the Mille Miglia every year In the huge hall hundreds of classic cars (and some modern Ferraris and Mercedes-Benz cars which take part in the Mille Miglia tribute) are shining away After my initial registration I receive a card that is missing nine different stamps First I need to do a medical check – two pretty Italian doctors check my heart and blood pressure after which I get the ok This sounds easy but before you can do this you first need to pay and visit two different desks Next up is the temporary race license which every participant that doesn’t have a valid racing license needs After a bit of queuing my details are checked at another desk and now I’m off to get my passphoto taken Next up we receive the welcome pack and are only two car related stamps away from getting the all clear In the meantime I take some time to stroll around the Viera saying hello to some old friends and admire the stunning machinery ranging from 1920s OMs and Bugattis to 1950s Porsches and Gullwings My BMW 328 is shining away along 5 of its siblings; the BMW 328 Mille Miglia and 328 Berlin-Rom with their racing bodies providing excellent companions I’m very excited to finish the sealing in the center of Brescia tomorrow and start tomorrow afternoon With start number 142 we start around 53 minutes after the first car leaves Brescia tomorrow afternoon We are now live at Mille Miglia 2017 with BMW Scrutineering and verification process underway Caught up in the race in our hired holiday Cinquecento leaving Urbino today Enjoyed the waves from the roadside crowds and website in this browser for the next time I comment This week Luca Toni is under the microscope he would never fit under a microscope but still… A 6’4″ striker born in Pavullo nel Frignano he was an international who played for 15 different clubs Along the way he collected a World Cup winner’s medal in 2006 and won a domestic triple in his time at Bayern Munich finishing the season as Bundesliga’s top scorer in 2007/08 There was also a Serie B title with Palermo (he was the top scorer in the league that year) and he won the European Golden Shoe award in 2005/06 He played in Serie C and B for the first six years of his career before moving to Vincenza in 2000/2001 playing just a single season before moving to Brescia for two years and then getting what turned out to be his big break who at the time were in the second tier but with ambitions for promotion It was a bit of a gamble to step down a division but it paid off for Luca massively he got 21 goals in Palermo’s first Serie A campaign leading the Sicilian club to a historical first qualification for the UEFA Cup he shocked them by moving to Fiorentina for 10 million Euros This put a lot of pressure on him but 2005/06 was to be a brilliant peak career season this was the first time in 50 years that a Serie A player had scored more than 30 goals in a season the place was erased due to the Calciopoli scandal Luca stayed another season before Bayern snaffled him for a meagre €11.58 million He was signed at the same time as Franck Ribéry and hit the ground running scoring an amazing 39 in 46 games for the Germans His second season was blighted with injury and then he fell out with Louis van Gaal and went out on loan to Roma This marked the start of three years of drift which saw him play for Genoa Juventus and Al Nasr before returning to Fiorentina scoring 21 goals in over 70 games across the three years But he had a late career last hurrah at Verona playing three seasons and scoring 48 in 95 before calling his 22-year career a day aged 39 He’d won the Serie A Golden Boot for a second time in his very last season Luca Toni was one of the last great old-school number 9 target men at least until it becomes fashionable again to knock it long for a big man who can score with high-leaping or low stooping headers breakaways and doesn’t mind using any part of his body to get the ball over the line While possession and passing as a basic strategy have their appeal there is a simple and eternal pleasure in seeing a big man playing a physical game which will never be superseded by the more cerebral or precise pleasures This was a man who had to work hard to get his chance He was in his mid-20s before it all really took off for him and 30 by the time he really hit the big time at Bayern He’d really paid his dues in the boondocks This wasn’t a player who had been selected for the big time since an early age Luca was never the most fashionable of players and his selection for the national side was often controversial as it was felt by some that he didn’t have the skill set needed it is no coincidence that Italy’s World Cup triumph coincided with Luca’s glory years and the year he won the European Golden Shoe And yet when we think of great European goalscorers of the past 20 years despite scoring a huge 158 goals in just 233 games from 2003 to 2010 Easy to think this is pure snobbery against a big target man and it probably is His game was all about power and physicality two things that it is easy to appreciate from the stands in a way that fast intricate passing which looks good on TV isn’t and can pass you by In that sense he was a terrace star rather than a TV star He was primarily right-footed but was plenty good with the left too Luca’s name was a good one to drop in order to gauge where someone was in their appreciation of the game The game had moved on and with artists of the calibre of Francesco Totti in midfield they saw Toni as little more than a lumbering doofus He was well-liked at Bayern an even made a hit single Numero Uno… There’s something reassuringly normal about the way Toni played the game It’s hard for a tall man to look elegant and he really doesn’t He’ll go low to head a ball where no ball should be headed He did that thing you never see anymore where a striker could leap with his back half turned to the goal twist his shoulders and head as he connects with the ball he’s playing a game that looks like it now belongs to a different age even though he only retired four years ago Surely the big target man is worth reviving as a concept He is a reminder that football’s pleasures are many and varied He was supremely effective rather than brilliant there is always room for someone who just knows how to do one or two things really well Luca was tough and persistent and knew where to be when a ball needed putting in the net from two or 20 yards That is an art in itself and should not be thought lesser than any amount of short-arse-pretty-passy-passy-shuffling-fannying-around-merchants so classic it sounds like a chain of New York pizza joints let’s go to Luca Toni’s for a slice.” It’s a name which allows everyone to flex their Italian accent and there’s always joy in that You have to have a love of Italian football or Bayern to really feel strongly about Mr T all have fond memories of the big man who let’s not forget played for 13 different Italian clubs I think in part it is because his talent doesn’t feel so far removed from something we might have been able to achieve ourselves but he must’ve inspired many a big lad in the Sunday Leagues to have a go up top It must also be said that his trademark celebration of the twirling hand to right ear (what does it mean?) is an easy one to copy by anyone who stumbles over the ball and stabs it home in the pouring rain one November Sunday in Workington. We start with a welcome return of the 4_4_Haiku… — 4_4_haiku (@4_4_haiku) October 29, 2020 ‘One of my favourite Italian strikers remember first being aware of him aged 15/16 in 2005/6 when he was tearing it up with Palermo.’ ‘He won the Serie A Golden Boot at the age of 38 a World Cup winner and always scored a tonne of goals wherever he played a true underrated legend of the game.’ and a gentle giant with excellent finishing ability admired him from afar in Bayern and then in the swansong seasons at Verona — Hristov S (@TousenCollins) October 29, 2020 An absolute journey man but did his job wherever he went ‘I’m fairly convinced that Luca Toni morphed into Mario Gomez and without solid evidence to the contrary I’m going to continue believing that.’ Big Luca was like Jamie Vardy a decade earlier Rising from the lower leagues to superstardom — Gavinder Pawar (@GavinderPawar) October 29, 2020 ‘Ah Luca…the forum fave… Blackburn Rovers were always rumoured to be signing him every window for about ten years…still expect him to turn up at Ewood at some point…’ ‘Virtually joined a new club every season so that his agent must have been very happy Not the most mesmerising striker that Italy ever produced yet he was first team when they won the World Cup.’ I am shocked every time I see his honours list but 4 time Golden Boot winner across 3 leagues European Golden Shoe Winner and a World Cup Winners Medal — At The Bridge Pod: A Chelsea FC Podcast (@AtTheBridgePod) October 29, 2020 Simply a classic big man at the far-post header This compilation of goals for Palermo and Fiorentina show first how good he looks in pink or violet but also just how many different sorts of goals he could score The second is an absolutely towering header Having teamed up with Fallon Sharrock for a celebrity darts gig in Bonn – surely an unlikely strike partnership – reports suggest he’s not going to have a career with the arrows ahead of him His is the 40-something former Italy-based generation of players that has moved in some numbers into management in a way that we haven’t seen in England With Simone and Pippo Inzaghi installed as bosses along with Andrea Pirlo Gennaro Gattuso and Fabio Liverani all current Serie A bosses Given he has acquired all his licences and badges it would appear he’s also keen on going into coaching and management he’s only 43 so there’s plenty of time for him to develop imposing presence in any dressing room and his relatively young age will give him a connection to current players © Planet Sport Limited 2025 • All Rights Reserved