Bella Italia: the series of Online Tours by MI EXPERIENCE that takes you to discover the beauties of our peninsula.
 
Season V of MI EXPERIENCE is entirely dedicated to women: strong, independent women, capable of going beyond the customs of their times and breaking down prejudices. We will set off on a historical journey, accompanied by the magnificent personalities of Fernanda Wittgens, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Frida Kahlo and Artemisia Gentileschi.
 
4 unmissable episodes in the company of MI EXPERIENCE guides, skilled craftsmen of unforgettable experiences.
 
Complete Program:
 
We will take you to discover Fernanda Wittgens, art critic and Italian art historian; she was the first woman director of the Pinacoteca di Brera, as well as the first woman in Italy to hold the directorial role of an important museum or gallery. Our journey will continue with Rita Levi-Montalcini, an Italian neurologist, academic and senator for life, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1986. The first woman to be admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

We will then set off on a journey through the history of art.  Frida Kahlo is the protagonist of the third meeting, a central figure in Mexican art, as well as the most famous Latin American painter of the 20th century. With her husband Diego Rivera, one of the most important muralists in Mexico, they form one of the most emblematic couples in the history of world art. We will therefore close Season V with a true warrior, a symbol of all women who fight against injustice: Artemisia Gentileschi, daughter of Orazio Gentileschi, a Pisan painter of Mannerist style who however moved to Rome, fully absorbing the influence of Caravaggio, the young Artemisia approached painting from a very young age. Brutally raped by her perspective teacher, Artemisia agrees to testify at the Inquisition trial under torture, to prove her virginity prior to the rape, and is subjected to the sibyl, a torture designed for painters, which consists of binding their fingers with ropes until they bleed.
 
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