LiTerra

Adiacente alla cattedrale di San Lorenzo, il museo offre un percorso denso di storia e una ricca varietà di opere: tele, affreschi, statue, reperti archeologici. Da scoprire in ambienti di grande fascino Poche città, come Genova, riescono a stupire e a coinvolgere, ogni volta in maniera nuova, non solo i visitatori, ma anche chi vi ha trascorso anni di vita, di studi. È nel carattere e nello stile della Superba avere, accanto a strade maestose, come quella Aurea (l’attuale via Garibaldi), e a monumenti...

After 63 years on the throne, Victoria’s death left the nation pondering its own mortality. Having known no other leader, the nation’s future felt uncertain… A mass of black-clothed mourners waited to say their last goodbyes to the queen who had served them devotedly for nearly 64 years – the second longest of any British monarch. An eerie silence hung over them like a shroud as people bowed their heads in sorrow, some shaking with grief and others from the bitter cold. The only sound came from...

How a tiny island and its queen came to possess an empire so large that the sun never set on it “Britain had the might, ingenuity and limitless ambition to conquer the world” The date was 22 January 1901 and the British Empire was the largest of any in human history, but the monarch who reigned over it would not live to see another day. As Queen Victoria lay dying in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight she looked back on a reign that spanned over 63 years. She had seen her empire grow from a collection...

How a Victorian vision reinvented the Raj and transformed Britain’s place in the world. On 5 May 1876, a tiny woman of German descent became empress of the mighty subcontinent of India and the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Queen Victoria’s accession to the imperial throne was the most visible sign of British world domination in the 19th century and it was a remarkable feat that a small group of islands off the coast of Europe had managed to impose its will so completely on a huge country...

Black-clad, dour-faced and decidedly not amused, Queen Victoria’s grief came to define her. When most people think of Queen Victoria, they picture a joyless widow dressed in black, a woman who closed down her emotions on the day she lost her soulmate and devoted herself for the rest of her days to the self-indulgent business of mourning her late husband. Earlier paintings and photographs that captured a hopeful princess and composed queen who had no time for such misery have been shunted aside in the public consciousness in favour of a woman who, infamously, was supposedly “not amused”...