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Bizhan Bassiri, Solar Mirror

Bizhan Bassiri, Tehran (Iran), 1954 Solar Mirror, 1997 Stainless steel 200 cm Location: Façade of the Departments of Engineering, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio Owner: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio   The work consists of a large stainless steel disc, which is two meters in diameter and hung quite high on the wall. The artist […] Read More

Cristina Pizzarro, Orion

Cristina Pizarro, Santiago de Chile, 1947 Orion, 2000 Stainless steel 150x110x110 cm Location: Entrance to the Folcara Campus, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio This work consists of three identically-shaped elements in stainless steel, harmoniously overlapped and placed on a steel base.  Pure shapes and lines and concave and convex elements conjoin, giving the whole sculpture […] Read More

Jannis Kounnelis, Untitled (The Well)

Jannis Kounellis, Piraeus (Greece), 1936 – Rome (Italy), 2017 Untitled (The Well), 2006 Bitumen, stone, iron 100x450x450 cm Location: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio – Folcara Campus, Entrance The work is an installation realized in 2006.  It rests in direct contact with the ground of external space at the Folcara University Campus. The well’s quadrangular […] Read More

Eliseo Mattiacci,Three Spheres

Eliseo Mattiacci, Three Spheres, 2006 Biographical Notes: Cagli (PS, Italy), 1940 Material: Iron Scale: 11.1×14.3 m Patron: CAMUSAC and University of Cassino and Southern Lazio Location: Outdoor parking – Folcara Campus, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio Owner: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio   The sculpture is placed in the center of a circle drawn on […] Read More

Klaus Munch, Untlited

Klaus Münch, Untitled,1998 Freiburg, 1953 Material: Gold, silver and purple serigraph on Plexiglas Varied Location: Rectorate, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio   This piece consists of three oval shapes coated with serigraphs on plexiglass (a serigraph is a type of printing). The individual shapes are of different sizes and colors: the purple one is […] Read More

Museo Facile, Museums Made Easy

Museo Facile, Museums Made Easy Museo Facile seeks to make art collections more direct and accessibile to all audiences through: Simplified content Interpretive materials along the way Easily legible texts Recorded descriptive guides and videos in Italian Sign Language (LIS) Museums Facile’s interpretive materials are equipped with QR-Codes to enhance your visit.  With the help […] Read More

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Greek Cross: a cross in which all fours arms are the same length in the Greek unlike the Latin one commonly in used in the western Church and in Italy in which the vertical arm is longer than the horizontal one.

MONTECASSINO DOV’ERA E COM’ERA

Nel 529 San Benedetto scelse un antico insediamento pagano posto in cima alla collina di Montecassino e vi fondò un monastero. Trasformò il tempio classico in una chiesa dedicata a S. Martino e l’altare pagano in una cappella per S. Giovanni. Del lavoro di San Benedetto, in realtà, oggi non rimane nulla. Nei secoli, l’abbazia […] Read More