San Nicola - Splendours of art of the East and West - I'm not sleepy 
Swabian castle from 7 December 2006 to May 6, 2007
hours: daily 9:30 to 19:30
Tickets (exhibition + castle): Adults € 9.00, reduced € 7.50
Suggestions Asia Minor and the Byzantine sumptuousness. Turkey is Muslim and Catholic Italy. Orthodox Russia and Protestant Holland, the Levant and the fabulous futuristic Manhattan, in a flurry of stories, images, and miracles. Journey through endless sites and thousands of years: fifteen centuries, three continents, handfuls of cultures. And art, universal and sublime, mysterious and solemn. To outline the enigmatic figure of St. Nicholas, popular in the Greek Church and Latin, able to inspire devotion and appreciation from distant and different peoples. Bishop of Myra in Asia Minor in the first half of the fourth century, was known for his pastoral generosity, balance and determination. Few reports about his life, soon enveloped in an aura of legend and enriched with evocative details and miraculous: the sacred writers confused him even with another saint, Nicholas Sion - lived in the sixth century, in the same area of \u200b\u200bAsia Minor - and contaminate their products. His relics were stolen by some merchants in 1087, were transported to Bari, where he became a patron and where a famous basilica was erected. An important cult, for a rapid expansion in the Mediterranean, grew up around his tomb, from which emanated a miraculous liquid known as "holy myron. An exhibition celebrating today Apulian this fascinating character, tracing the main steps of the long and compelling story that, through the centuries, has made it a universal and transconfessionale saint, venerated in geographical and cultural contexts also very different. Promoted by the Culture of the City of Bari, Puglia Region of the Mediterranean by the Department and the Regional Directorate for Cultural and Landscape Heritage of Puglia, the exhibition is hosted at the beautiful rooms of the Castello Svevo di Bari and has many masterpieces of important artists - among others, Beato Angelico, Paolo Veneziano, Lorenzo Monaco, Lorenzo Lotto, Alvise Vivarini and Bartholomew, Jan Steen, Andy Warhol - which accounted for stories and miracles associated with the figure of Saint Nicholas, with an emphasis on outreach to spread its image and its different interpretations. Edited by Michele Bacci in collaboration with Fabio Marcelli, the preparation is also known for the presence of eight ancient paintings on wood - from the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai -, rarities that make up the oldest known icons honor of the saint, and its most ancient pictorial representations. In addition, you can admire numerous works of European art history and Mediterranean, including a number of objects in ivory and gold of Byzantine X and XI centuries, great sculptures of the Romanesque period (such as the storied capital of the National Museum of Catalonia) and valuable manuscripts of Austrian origin and Flemish.
Question of the century: "Will I be able to go there?" :)
next time ... ;)
