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		<title>Ceramic Art Exhibition &#038; Workshop in Rome</title>
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Sept 5th – 21st, 2008
Palazzo Venezia, Rome
Palazzo Venezia in  Rome is about to open its doors to an usual and exciting event: an exhibition of experimental ceramic art and a ceramic workshop open to pottery lovers, experienced potters and absolute beginners.
The event will complement Agostino Tassi exhibition, currently on in the same building.
Tassi (1578 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>design@km0.umbria.it: Food design and Deruta pottery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 4 - August 4, 2008
Spoleto - Italy
ADI – Industrial Design Association – has chosen a very intriguing subject to celebrate the opening of a new branch in Umbria: Food Design.
Important designers, a famous chef and a group of Deruta potters joined their creative skills to set up an exhibition that shows how simple and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/food-design-deruta-pottery/</link>
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		<title>Deruta Municipality steps in to fights fakes</title>
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Deruta Mayor has recently launched a program to stop the spread of counterfeit ceramics, inexpensive industrial products mostly made in China or Eastern Europe and marked “Made in Deruta” or even “Handmade in Deruta”.
Let us take a step back for a moment and look at the bigger picture.
Deruta pottery is facing the worst economic downturn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/authentic-deruta-pottery-1/</link>
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		<title>International Ceramic Festival in Montelupo - Tuscany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 21-29, 2008
Montelupo – Italy
Montelupo is a charming Medieval city built on a hill, a few miles east of Florence.
That was about it, until a team of archeologists discovered an old well full of kiln shards in 1973.
The unexpected discovery shed new light on the role of Montelupo in the history of Tuscan ceramics. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/international-ceramic-festival-montelupo-tuscany/</link>
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		<title>Join us in Deruta for a spectacular event: The Magic of Ceramic Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[June 1-15, 2008
Deruta – Italy
Art exhibitions, live performances, demonstrations and activities will be the ingredients of “The Magic of Ceramic Art”, a highly anticipated art &#38; entertainment festival to be held in Deruta from June 1st.
Deruta potters, Italian and International artists, music players, scholars and visitors from all over the world will get together to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/event-deruta-ceramic-art/</link>
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		<title>Tuscan pottery: the new Museum of Montelupo Ceramics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are planning a trip to Italy, make sure to include in your itinerary a visit to the city of Montelupo and its new Museum of Ceramics. You will not regret it. It will offer you a charming glimpse of the beautiful countryside just east of Florence and the thrill of being confronted with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/tuscan-pottery-museum-montelupo-ceramics/</link>
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		<title>Rosso di Montelupo: A true Italian ceramic masterpiece</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Considered the masterpiece of Tuscan ceramics from Montelupo, the “Red from Montelupo” is a large basin richly decorated with grotesque figured and powerfully vivid colors.
It was made in 1509 in Lorenzo di Piero Sartori’s workshop, one of the most prestigious in Montelupo. The author’s signature – Lo - is elegantly painted on the back of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/rosso-montelupo/</link>
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		<title>Deruta pottery interprets Pintoricchio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 9 – June 29, 2008
Deruta – Italy
Last week Manuela and I went to Deruta to visit a temporary exhibition held at the local Museum of Ceramics.
The exhibition, titled “Deruta pottery interprets Pintoricchio”, is one of the many events organized in Umbria to celebrate the 550th anniversary of the painter’s birth, whose influence greatly contributed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/deruta-pottery-interprets-pinturicchio/</link>
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		<title>Umbria pottery: the Brocche dei Ceri and the Good Luck Shards from Gubbio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Umbria is one of Italy&#8217;s smallest regions, whose secretive beauty is made of rolling hills dotted with castles and monasteries and whose charming hill town have been producing world renowned handmade ceramics since the Renaissance.
It&#8217;s really hard to resist the charm of Deruta ceramics, or Gubbio ceramics&#8230;
Born as merely functional to human life, Umbrian ceramics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thatsarte.com/blog/highlights/umbria-pottery-gubbio/</link>
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		<title>The Sources of Portrait in Deruta Ceramics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No ceramic lover can resist the timeless charm of a Renaissance portrait finely painted on a Deruta ceramic.
Scattered all over the world in the most prestigious museums, Deruta portrait ceramics share the same taste for proportions, the gentle forms, the harmonious colors, the fine heads and sweet gentle faces expressing utter serenity and selflessness.
During the [...]]]></description>
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