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The preliminary price of the businesses acquired is around Eur 3.6 million ($4.18 million) depending on the actual profitability of the businesses acquired has around 80 branches operating throughout Italy Get the latest news and resources from Vending Times The section will be closed from 22pm on Tuesday 8 to 5 on Wednesday 9 March Aspi communicates by means of a note that on the A4 Milan-Brescia to allow for the redevelopment of the sound barriers from 22 pm on Tuesday 8 to 5 on Wednesday 9 March closed the section between Bergamo and Seriate after the obligatory exit at Bergamo station exit at the Seriate Centro / Lago d'Iseo junction and take the southern ring road following the signs for A4 Milan / Venice and return to the A4 at Seriate station Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker of Arri (left) and Marcus Graser of Claypaky Arri has announced its acquisition of lighting manufacturer Claypaky from Ams Osram “With Claypaky as part of our corporate group Arri will become a leading lighting-solutions provider with top brands for both the motion-picture and live-entertainment markets,” says Matthias Erb passion and dedication to lighting that distinguishes both companies also demonstrates that we are well matched.” “We’re very happy to be joining the Arri family innovation power and customer understanding and we also share a rich heritage and an unconditional passion for technology and innovation.” Follow Arri on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Follow Claypaky on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Keep up with American Cinematographer on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Act now to receive 12 issues of the award-winning AC magazine — the world’s finest cinematography resource © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) American Society of Cinematographers This website uses cookies to give our readers the best website experience. Please refer to our privacy policy to find out how we use cookies and how you can edit your preferences You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Memory of crammed hospitals lingers in adherence to Covid rules and Italy is faring better than others Morena Colombi, from Truccazzano, a small town near Milan, was among the first people in Italy to test positive for Covid-19 and knows only too well the impact of the virus The 59-year-old suffered a mild initial illness but months after being declared recovered she is among Italy’s post-Covid ‘long-haulers’ – struggling daily with muscle pain chronic tiredness and occasional memory loss the first European country to be hit by an outbreak appears to be more successful than its neighbours in containing a resurgence it recorded 1,392 new cases compared with 10,799 in Spain The majority of Italians still diligently follow safety rules, even wearing face masks outside even though it is not compulsory. Images of people being treated in intensive care units in overwhelmed hospitals and coffins piling up in churches and being transported in army trucks away from Bergamo are firmly etched into the national psyche “I don’t know what the impact of the outbreak was like on people in other countries but in Italy it was devastating,” said Colombi but I think this is why most people are being careful – what we experienced was so strong that nobody wants to go through that ever again.” A soldier wearing a protective suit transporting coffins on military trucks from the Bergamo area to the Cinisello Balsamo cemetery at the start of the crisis Photograph: Andrea Fasani/EPAGloria Taliani a doctor of infectious diseases in the Emilia-Romagna city of Piacenza said the population had also been “totally awakened” by the continuous information about the virus and its consequences including on those who had mild symptoms such as Colombi Other than the widespread adoption of safety rules, Andrea Crisanti, a professor of microbiology at the University of Padua, said Italy’s testing and tracing system sets it apart. “There is a lot of debate about such systems but without powerful information it is not so efficient because people do not necessarily recall where they have been or people they have met,” he said. The Italian approach has been to test everyone within the social network of an infected person – their families, friends, colleagues, neighbours – regardless of whether they have been exposed. This has enabled Italy to uncover thousands of asymptomatic cases. “It allows us to identify who has transmitted the infection and identify new infections – this makes a dramatic difference,” said Crisanti. He added that testing at numerous drive-in centres and airports has also helped – all those arriving from at-risk countries must undergo swab tests, while passengers flying between Rome and Milan have to present negative results for coronavirus as part of an experiment that could soon be rolled out on international flights. “However, I’m not sure how sustainable this will be on a large scale, especially with increased air transit. The best thing would be to implement reciprocal agreements with different countries – this is what we’ll need in the future.” Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director at Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani hospital, also puts the stability in Italy down to the broad surveillance and containment system, but warns that the impact of the schools reopening on 14 September and resumption of economic activity after the holidays won’t be known for another two weeks. Since Sunday, football stadiums have been allowed to welcome back a maximum of 1,000 spectators. “Personally, I thought the stadiums could have stayed closed,” said Ippolito. “We don’t know what will happen, the only thing we can do is hope to maintain the curve with a minimal increase in hospitalisations and admission to intensive care.” Hospital admissions have been steadily rising since August, with 2,604 being treated for Covid across the country, of whom 239 are in intensive care. Taliani also credits the government for its clear, simple and consistent messages to the public. “Even if there have been some controversies, we have to admit that the government has been firm, and maintained a truly continuous and rigorous way of acting,” she said. Italy has suffered almost twice as many deaths as any other nation.The priest said the saddest thing for him was that many of his parishioners died alone because restrictions in place to stem the spread of the virus do not allow family members into hospitals."We often talk about the most needy and these are truly the most needy now," he said outside the church after blessing about 40 coffins along with a younger priest Father Marcello Crotti."They are the most needy even though they are no longer alive No one has the time or opportunity to take care of them anymore so I decided to open the house of the Lord to them," Carminati said.It is a short stay After Carminati and Crotti blessed the latest batch of coffins on Saturday army troops in protective gear loaded them onto five trucks covered by camouflaged tarps.Bells tolled as the trucks left the church and residents looking down from windows and balconies made the sign of the cross.As the caravan crossed an intersection a town policeman wearing a medical mask and white gloves stood at attention and saluted.Writing by Philip Pullella; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne Court rules that Giuseppe Conte and Roberto Speranza not at fault over 6,000 excess deaths in Bergamo at start of pandemic Italy’s former prime minister Giuseppe Conte and the former health minister Roberto Speranza were not responsible for the alleged mismanagement of the country’s first phase of the Covid pandemic The investigation followed a preliminary inquiry that began in mid-2020 and was driven by relatives of Covid-19 victims Bergamo registered 6,000 excess deaths during the first wave of the virus and according to rights groups representing families of the victims 4,000 could have been prevented had the areas been immediately quarantined Italy was the first European country known to have been hit by a large outbreak of the virus an outbreak occurred at the hospital in Alzano Lombardo which was immediately quarantined along with nine other towns in Lombardy and one in Veneto the Alzano Lombardo hospital was reopened hours after the outbreak while Bergamo province only went into lockdown with the entire Lombardy region two weeks later Ex-Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane/ReutersHowever the court of ministers in Brescia dismissed the case citing how the “accusations against the pair are baseless” “There is no evidence of the connection between the dead and the failure to extend the red zone,” the court said Former Italian health minister Roberto Speranza Photograph: Remo Casilli/Reuters“Speranza has adopted the health measures proposed to him by experts – measures which have been among the most restrictive,” wrote the judges “The crime of culpable epidemic for improper omissive conduct is therefore unrealistic.” “I am very relieved by this decision,” Speranza said on Facebook “I really did everything possible in those terrible days to protect the health of Italians relatives of Covid victims in the province of Bergamo described the ruling as a “slap in the face” “We are uncompromising over what has been done by the Brescia public prosecutor’s office and court of ministers: the decision to dismiss the case is an insult to the memory of our relatives, yet another gag in an Italy corroded by the code of silence that we have always fought against,” said members of the #Sereniesempreuniti association of victims’ families “We are disappointed and bitter,” they added citing they will take the issue to the civil courts Italy on Tuesday reported another 837 deaths from the novel coronavirus bringing the total number of fatalities to 12,428 a slowdown has been performed in the number of new contagions compared with the double-digit rises seen since the beginning of the outbreak The number of recovered or healed people also continued to surge The epicenter of the Italian outbreak remains the northern Lombardy region Italian experts say the outbreak has not yet peaked in the country The government is expected to approve a new decree by early April which will likely extend ongoing lockdown measures for at least another two weeks Health Minister Roberto Speranza indicated on Tuesday that the lockdown could be prolonged at least until Easter Sunday businesses owners are calling for the government’s help to face the heavy economic fallout from the emergency said Tuesday that the pandemic-driven losses in terms of output could reach as high as 10% in the first half of the year many of whom have assisted and comforted the sick since start of pandemic Calls are growing in Italy to prioritise the vaccination of priests against Covid-19 as the death toll among members of the clergy many of whom have assisted and comforted the sick since the beginning of the pandemic religious groups and priests have in recent weeks expressed support for a call for priests to be prioritise from the archbishop of Reggio Calabria who in January told an interviewer that the church was continuing to lose clergy to the disease “When we discuss vaccinating people who are at risk, why aren’t the clergy included? We are closely tied to the community, assisting the sick and making social visits,” he said in an interview reported by the weekly magazine Avvenire di Calabria “I have the impression we are viewing the church increasingly as an entity that gives but we never ask what it needs to carry out its mission.” writer and journalist for the Italian Council of Bishops’ press agency AgenSir has tallied the victims in his recently published book and puts the death toll among priests at 265 “The second wave was more lethal than the first killing over 60% of [infected] priests,” he told the Guardian adding that as the economic crisis caused by the pandemic grew people started knocking on church doors Father Enzo Volpe“Who was going to look after the homeless people searching for a meal and a place to sleep?” he asked “Who was going to comfort the sick who wanted someone by their side Despite the fact that members of the clergy tried to follow anti-transmission guidelines they couldn’t refuse to hold the hands of people who were sinking.” Lying in a bed in the semi-intensive care ward in Palermo’s Cervello hospital his fingers scroll through the names of 10 priests who have died of Covid-19 in the last eleven days as reads the latest news on his mobile phone The priest worked on the streets of Palermo helping the poor and victims of trafficking We followed all of the precautionary measures from the beginning But this virus is stealthy and can strike anyone.” He celebrated mass on 31 January and shortly after began to develop a fever and breathing problems his condition had already worsened and he was taken to hospital wondering how I contracted the disease in the first place.” In many of the country’s red zones, those at high risk of outbreaks, cinemas, museums, gyms and schools have remained closed. But not churches, as priests have continued to carry out duties like celebrating mass and administering last rites religious authorities prohibited weddings and baptisms They also required that the Eucharist be distributed into the hands of the faithful and that handshakes be avoided Masks were made mandatory and church capacity was halved such restrictions were not enough to safeguard the clergy In Bergamo, the city that paid the highest price during the first wave of the pandemic, nearly 30 priests died, 24 of whom over two weeks last March The virus didn’t spare the hundreds of convents and monasteries where elderly nuns and friars share common spaces One risk factor is the increasing age of the Italian clergy as dwindling numbers of young people enter it. According to data from the Central Institute for the Support of Clergy the average age of parish priests in Italy is 62 the percentage of priests over 70 has risen from 22.1% to 36% While the maximum age to carry out the functions of parish priest is 75 many priests have continued to perform their duties beyond that limit “Doctors are physicians of the body, I’m a doctor of the soul,” said Don Casardi I call upon the authorities to intervene and vaccinate priests use hand sanitiser and follow all of the law’s prescriptions “We couldn’t use Covid simply as an excuse to do nothing,” says Father Enzo “It is precisely in these moments that our ministry is most needed.” This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising ams OSRAM has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Claypaky entertainment lighting business to German-based ARRI The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions established in 1976 and acquired by OSRAM in 2014 Claypaky has strengthened its technology leadership through LED-and laser-based portfolio extensions award-winning portfolio of moving body and moving mirror projectors Claypaky is a leading partner for the world’s most renowned shows is a leading designer and manufacturer of camera and lighting systems as well as system solutions for the film with a worldwide distribution and service network “The acquisition of Claypaky is a strategic long-term investment into our lighting business,” said ARRI CEO “Claypaky enjoys premium recognition in the entertainment lighting market while ARRI is recognised as a premium manufacturer in motion picture and broadcast lighting This premium position of the two brands shows that both companies are an ideal match and can further expand their respective businesses under the unified parent company.” commented: “ARRI AG is an ideal new home for the Claypaky team in Seriate and all around the world strong technology track record and market understanding will offer a very attractive long-term perspective for Claypaky and their customers.” added: “We are very happy to be joining the ARRI family Both companies have a leading position in their field and unconditional passion for technology and innovation in a professional industry that fascinates thousands of people around the world we will continue to deliver on our vision – to create the best in class lighting equipment services and offer world level reference products to an even broader customer base.” ams OSRAM implements the last of the divestments which the company had communicated to pursue following the acquisition of OSRAM ams OSRAM will continue to focus on the high technology semiconductor business and its automotive & specialty lamps business and the announcement represents a further milestone in the implementation of ams OSRAM’s strategy to focus on core technology areas in illumination and sensing and to divest businesses that are not core to the company’s strategy www.arri.com www.ams-osram.com www.claypaky.com We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again More information about our Cookie Policy 1840 - 1922) was not only a great writer and master of verismo: he was in fact also a photographer And there is an exhibition that recounts this passion of Verga’s on the occasion of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023 a permanent cultural institution for research and education Giovanni Verga photographer curated by Roberto Mutti: scheduled from February 12 to March 4 born from the collaboration with the Culture Department of the City of Seriate and ASAV - Seriatese Visual Arts Association intends to investigate the relationship between literature and photography and appreciate the interesting worldview of the Sicilian author in his many portraits and environmental images.The exhibition presents 90 images all from the photographic archives of the 3M Foundation: these are not original vintage images because these have been inexplicably lost but recent prints made with careful philological research to reproduce the correct tones Verga photographerGiovanni Verga was born in 1840 exactly one year after the presentation in Paris of the “fatal invention” as photography was called by astonished contemporaries this one takes on a particular one because the Sicilian writer to the literary work that made him famous juxtaposed for several years - from 1878 to 1911 - his passion for photography the close relationship between the two activities must have seemed obvious to him a thought shared with his friends Federico De Roberto and Luigi Capuana (who was also his master in technique) and which he found in the exquisite images of Émile Zola who was the most prestigious exponent of Naturalism the Catanian author shares the strange fate of being forgotten as a photographer and rediscovered only many years later the discovery of the glass plates and rolls on which the writer had imprinted his images dates back to 1970 knowledge of his photographs is little known to the general public-a deficiency that this exhibition aims to fill.Giovanni Verga was not always technically flawless in his beginnings but with time he was able to improve considerably showing effectiveness and directness in devoting himself with equal interest to landscapes as to portraits Urban and rural Sicily is the protagonist of his visions (with obvious literary analogies with what the author himself described in his written pages) but other and more unexpected landscapes are those of the Lombard lakes which Verga had the opportunity to visit starting from Milan where he lived for a long time Even more extensive is the production of portraits and it is curious to note that alongside the many relatives and friends maids and a whole host of simple men and women who evidently did not only animate his novels and novellas often appear in these pictures Sometimes they are filmed in their environment such as a small terrace of his Catania home that the writer-photographer favored for setting up his sets exploiting as backdrops decorated walls or a simple cloth as was the custom of the time the very way of shooting are now important clues for us capable of telling us a lot about the lifestyle the aesthetics and the history of the time But this exhibition also wants to help us rediscover the style of a photographer in many ways still surprising today the conference “RECONCERNING YOUR IDEA OF THE WORLD - Culture and Photography between Bergamo and Brescia” is scheduled for Feb also curator of the catalog that enriches the exhibition which is a summer football school that addresses children aged 6 to 14 It's a unique occasion to try out the training methods of the Nerazzurri's Academy together with Atalanta's youth teams' coaches 2.350 children have already chosen Atalanta Football Camp but registration for the camps that are still to kick off is open. You can only register online on the website www.atalantacamp.it where you can also find all the useful information regarding available locations and dates 12 camps took place in 11 different locations this first week One of the special offers is the camp located at the Centro Bortolotti in Zingonia that gives you the opportunity to train on the pitches of the Nerazzurri's Academy both at the traditional camp and the one that is dedicated to women's football Atalanta Football Camps have kicked off not only in Zingonia but also in other locations in the Province of Bergamo in particular in Antegnate (participants from U.S Seriate (participants from Aurora Seriate) and Villa d'Adda (participants from U.S The First Lombardy camps that were held outside the province of Bergamo kicked off as well It was the turn of Bussero this week (participants from Atletico Bussero) as well as Milan (participants from Scarioni) Rovellasca (participants from Rovellasca) and Siziano (participants from Siziano Lanterna) There are also Atalanta Football Camp outside Lombardy such as the one that took place in Parma (participants from Unione Polisportiva Virtus) this week The activities will continue in other locations next week including the camp which is dedicated to the goalkeepers and which is to take place at the Centro Bortolotti in Zingonia This was disclosed during an agreement signing ceremony between the two companies on Monday, November 12th in Victoria Island, Lagos. Olaoluwa Awojoodu, the CEO and Co-founder of E-Settlement, described the partnership as an extremely good opportunity for E-Settlement to quickly grow into the largest agent banking platform in Nigeria. He said the company which himself and three of his colleagues started has been growing at over 200% in transactions, year on year. He said “when we launched PayCentre in 2016, we processed over N3.2bn in transactions. The following year, that number sky rocketed to N20.5bn as we continued to deploy devices. This year, by the end of October, we have already crossed N60 billion in transaction. I believe, we will close the year with over N70 billion in transaction with under 2,000devices.” Olaoluwa also noted that agency banking is one of the best ways to bank the unbanked in the country. He said with under 6,000 bank branches in the whole country and less than 20,000 ATM machines, 70% of which are in Lagos, it is difficult to serve a population of almost 200 million people mostly living in the rural areas. Seriate is also one of the investors in E-Settlement. E-Settlement has in the past attracted investment from both local and international funds and investors. Among its investors are Green House Capital, U-Africa of South Africa, Venture Kinetics and Seriate Limited. Looking more closely, the report indicated that out of the 22 million adult population in the North West, more than 70% of such adults are financially excluded (the largest adult unbanked region in the country); compared to 18% of the financially excluded 21 million adults of the South West. The economic viability of setting up a physical bank branch in many locations within the country has continued to weaken due to initial and concurrent cost structures especially in the remote and rural areas. For this reason, the Nigerian Apex bank has been encouraging different banking solutions aimed at leveraging technology with lower cost profile to serve the unbanked population. Going into the future, it is clear that the Nigerian financial sector is rapidly gravitating towards more technology-based providers to reach those unbanked or underserved and the investment community is going with them. In the second half of this year alone, at least 3 Nigerian fintech have attracted investment capital from both local and international reputable investors. Companies like Visa and MasterCard have invested millions of dollars into names like Paystack, Paga and Flutterwave. It is expected that Seriate’s partnership with E-Settlement will make an impact on Nigeria’s financial inclusion and may create a faster momentum in the rapidly evolving financial sector. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 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The volume (opened by Enrico De Pascale’s preface) reproduces the collector’s main manuscript documents which inventoried most of the purchases he made and the postilles to Francesco Maria Tassi’s Lives and the complete catalog of the collection.“Piccinelli’s taste for the artists he collected might seem to be a local choice given by the simple practicality of finding works of the native school,” Brignoli writes in the introduction to the volume which stems from his dissertation discussed with Giovanni Agosti "The choice to compose a collection played largely on Lombard Venetian and Emilian paintings seems to refer instead to the expression of the ’vero di Lombardia’ contained in the Considerazioni sulla pittura by the Sienese physician Giulio Mancini where the boundaries of ’Lombardy’ are not limited to those of the present region but gather all those schools above the Tuscan Apennines: the Po Valley area that The artists collected by Piccinelli under the Emilian area can be counted on the fingers of two hands; foreign ones (such as the Borgognone of the battles) are frequent names in the empyrean of Orobic collecting Scrolling through the works in the collection the gentleman’s greatest artistic predilections are represented by Moroni and Fra’ Galgario the love for the collected paintings and for art in general represented not only a pastime the Piccinelli collection was visited by the leading art connoisseurs of the time: Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle was in Seriate between 1864 and 1868 saw some of Antonio Piccinelli’s paintings and noted them in his notes now kept at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice (among them Jerome in the Desert by Gerolamo da Treviso the Elder the panel with the Four Saints at theat the time given to Romanino and today instead assigned to an unknown artist of his circle the Madonna and Child by Antonio Maria da Carpi Jerome in the Desert by the workshop of Cima da Conegliano theAngel with Globe and Scepter and the Madonna and Child and Saints Roch and Sebastian by Lorenzo Lotto and the Flight into Egypt by Giovanni Cariani) Bernard Berenson visited the gallery after Piccinelli’s death in 1891 also noting some works on his Notes Places Another distinguished visitor was the aforementioned Giovanni Morelli Luca Brignoli’s book also traces the stages of the genesis of the collection when the collection did not yet include any of the most celebrated masterpieces: this was the year Piccinelli had the opportunity to acquire a dozen important paintings which Piccinelli attributed to Giovan Battista Moroni but which later flowed into Moretto’s catalog “The Angel,” Brignoli explains “paved the way for a conspicuous fortune for Moroni at the Piccinelli collection: in fact it was the first of eight paintings by this artist to reach the banks of the Serio River.” The leap forward when the role of consultant to Giuseppe Fumagalli intensified and his prompter in the acquisition of many paintings as well as his companion during some trips Piccinelli purchased Giovanni Cariani’s Flight into Egypt a Madonna and Child by Antonio Maria da Carpi and then again a sketch by Giovan Battista Tiepolo depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints Francis with Lorenzo Lotto’s Madonna and Child with Saints Rocco and Sebastian the best item in the collection: “This,” he would write in his zibaldone certainly superior to the one extolled at the Accademia Carrara and the others from the house of Lochis and Camozzi formerly Pezzoli.” Brignoli’s book details the occasions during which Piccinelli acquired the best pieces in his collection of Antonio Piccinelli was the beginning of the end of the collection The works passed entirely to his only nephew son of his brother Ercole (Antonio in fact died unmarried and childless) Giovanni was a refined and cultured person who had interests other than those of his uncle and as early as 1895 he began to sell some of the works in the family collection These included the Madonna and Child by Antonio Maria da Carpi which was sold to Brescian antiquarian Achille Glisenti who in turn sold it to the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest again through antiquarians to whom Giovanni Piccinelli had sold his uncle’s works the bulk of the collection was kept by Giovanni after the 1909 Rosadi Law (one of the first laws on protection) the Four Saints then attributed to Romanino Theodora and Tiepolo’s Madonna and Child with Saints the collection passed to the latter’s son who was most responsible for the collection’s diaspora which he neglected to the point that in some cases “we also owe some alienations of already bound paintings (Lotto in the will there are more than two hundred works mentioned and bequeathed to the grandchildren the amount of art objects in the family’s possession was still conspicuous It was precisely during the years of World War I that a number of alienations took place in favor of private individuals and speculative merchants such as Augusto Lurati who got his hands on paintings by Moroni and Tiepolo until he got to the most coveted piece: the sacred composition by Lotto.” Lotto’s masterpiece was the subject of a failed negotiation to bring it into the national public collections: It then went to a private collector and flowed following the controversial ad hoc law to manage the sumptuous Florentine collection in order to resolve conflicts over the inheritance Contini Bonacossi had passed a law that gave the green light to most of the works in the collection in exchange for the possibility of retaining those that a commission of experts would judge to be the masterpieces that Italy should secure for public collections: the Lotto unfortunately was not among them) “The blackest parenthesis of the collection occurred [...] when Antonia Piccinelli [Ercole’s sister ed.] married General Giacomo Siffredi in second marriage when Siffredi received in usufruct some property owned by his spouse and appropriated some paintings (and perhaps even sold them) Antonio Piccinelli’s zibaldone was one of the possessions that the general took possession of and that is why it went missing along with some of the paintings.” Today many of the paintings that once belonged to Antonio Piccinelli can be found in the world’s most prestigious museums (from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest to the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University from the Pinacoteca di Brera to the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo where Lorenzo Lotto’s Madonna is located while others have taken unknown destinations (the two paintings by Tiepolo for example: their whereabouts are currently unknown) but the collection has unfortunately gone missing “The fate that befell many Piccinelli works scattered today in museums halfway around the world from England to overseas institutions such as the United States and Canada,” Brignoli concludes “reminds us of the ephemeral and extremely delicate fate to which art collections are subjected The Seriate collection represents only one of the many once widespread throughout the Peninsula and more famous and impressive events such as those related to the Barberini or Contini Bonacossi collections should be considered real ’stone guests’ with respect to the management of Italy’s artistic heritage which has always been exposed to more or less licit exports despite pioneering legislative measures of protection Protecting and preserving Italy’s artistic heritage means in the groove traced by Article 9 of the Constitution Collecting works of art is not just an elitist operation through which to demonstrate one’s status and relative economic power because truly (in the words that came out of Walter Benjamin’s pen) ’for the collector in each of his objects is present the world itself.’” The book is rounded out with a cultural profile of Antonio Piccinelli a transcription of the zibaldone where Antonio Piccinelli’s purchases were noted one of his writings (Piccinelli’s postilles to the Lives of Francesco Maria Tassi) the complete catalog of the works (each of which has a card with an exhaustive description thanks to Luca Brignoli’s excellent work restores to Antonio Piccinelli a place of honor in the vicissitudes of Bergamasque and Lombard collecting placing him as the continuer of a tradition that had seen in Carrara and Lochis the best exponents Leafing through the pages of the book one realizes how valuable Piccinelli’s collection was and the heritage that was lost with its diaspora In response to a contracting market in 2013 and 2014 Italian wholesale giant Fintyre underwent a reorganisation involving relocation north from Empoli to Seriate Bergamo and a staff reduction of 60 employees The overhaul of the company structure did not end there; it started a process in 2015 has consolidated its position as the leader of the Italian market with a share of around 25 per cent British investment firm BlueGem Capital Partners which at that point held a 90 per cent share in Fintyre after its original 2009 investment was recapitalised following a major financing agreement with GSO Capital Partners The company then made two major acquisitions – Pneusmarket and Franco Gomme – which have helped to increase turnover from 255 million in 2014 to an estimate of more than 400 million euros in 2016 Tyrepress and Tyres & Accessories subscribers can log in below to read the full article If you are not yet a Tyrepress or Tyres & Accessories subscriber Subscribe now If you would like the latest news from the Chinese tyre industry in Chinese, visit our partner site TyrepressChina.com A story of pain and resilience that affects the community of Seriate was shaken by a tragedy that deeply affected its inhabitants leaving an unfillable void among family and friends but the rapidity of their deaths took everyone by surprise said: “We are trying to process what happened” Verusca’s words express the deep pain and confusion that the family is experiencing in this difficult moment which occurred during the night between Monday and Tuesday left her mother Elisa unaware of the tragic event Elisa passed away at the hospice in Gorlago Friends and acquaintances of the two women expressed their condolences commenting: “We are living through terrible days there are no words for the pain we are feeling” The community of Seriate united in mourning remembering the two women as strong and resilient people underlining the courage shown by mother and daughter during their illnesses Their story is an example of how life can deal unexpected blows but also of how family love can be a source of strength in the darkest moments Notizie.it is a newspaper registered with the Court of Milan n.68 on 01/03/2018 Impara come descrivere lo scopo dell'immagine (si apre in una nuova scheda) Lascia vuoto se l'immagine è puramente decorativa