FOR THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH WEEK 2020/2021 EDITION

OUR BIG PROJECT

Let's pay tribute to Mihály Babits, on the 80th anniversary of his death. We can thank the poet and literary translator's diligence that we're able to read - among others - Shakespeare, Dante and Sophocles's works in Hungarian. (His hous is on our poster.)

Read more: Esterházy Mária Leopoldina's carrara marble in Kismarton, in the Church of Leopoldina; Relievo named Sorrowful Genius (Búsuló Géniusz) in the Reformed Church of Gyömrő; A copy of his two and a half meter statue, Bust of Peace (Béke) behind the Parish Church of St. Teresa the Great in Avia, Budapest in the VII. district.

The impact of Antonio Canova, the italian sculptor, the founder of classicism, and István Ferenczy, the father of hungarian scupture, is still noticeable today. The student-master pair operated in the 18-19th century, spreading classicism in the arts. In our interview, we will travel back in time, to find out what made them such beacons and how...

Quo Vadis, the first movie of Bud Spencer - or with his real name Carlo Pedersoli - was introduced to society 70 years ago. The Italian actor has an enormous Hungarian fanbase to this day. In Budapest not only was there a statue erected in his honor, but for almost a year as a courtesy of TakerOne he had a...

Liszt in Italy

26/04/2021

210 years ago, composer and conductor Franz Liszt was born. The Hugarian piano prodigy had masters like Carl Czerny and Antonio Salieri (the latter being Mozart's great rival and alleged murderer). Liszt visited Italy several times (he visited Baveno, Lucca, Venice, Trieste, Rome, Spoleto, Assisi, Loreto, Tivoli, Siena and Firenze).

THE FIVE MUSES
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