Bracco Foundation is Institutional Partner of the Italian Embassy in the United States and the Rome Compagnia per la Musica for the concert officially celebrating Italian Unification.
Type: Arts
During the International Congress of the European Society of Radiology (ECR), traditionally held every year in Vienna, Bracco Foundation organized at the Hofburg Palace in the Austrian capital a Concert of the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Maestro Pietro Mianiti, with the participation of soprano Pretty Yende and baritone Renato Bruson, special guest of the evening.
To celebrate the International Women’s Day, March 8th , Bracco Foundation is organizing a seminar on prevention, with the aim of spreading in promoting among women a greater sensitivity towards healthy lifestyles, correct diet and preventive diagnosis.
The third in the series of meetings on “Women & Science” focusing on women’s prevention, organized by the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi in cooperation with Bracco Foundation is now starting.
How much can a visually, artistically and culturally stimulating environment influence our mood? How important is it if we are patients in hospital? Can we renew the conception of hospitals to improve therapy, revealing the interdependence between environment, illness and well-being?
International Women’s Day saw a major homage to the figure of Helena, who, in her long life, played many roles: she was mother of the celebrated Emperor Constantine, Empress and Augusta of a vast empire and finally saint, linked to the cult of the “true cross”.
The solemn opening ceremony of the 43rd Paulista Radiology Day (JPR ), which was held in São Paulo in the first week of May, was enriched by a concert sponsored by the foundation: Ludimilla Bauerfeldt and Jaeyoon Jung, young soprano and tenor of the Course for opera Singers of the Teatro alla Scala Academy. They performed a famous and fascinanting all-Italian opera programme, accompanied by the Orquestra Sinfonica de Heliopolis conducted by Maestro Edilson Ventureli.
In the current scenario in which healthy lifestyles, culture and the intelligent use of leisure time have assumed an increasing important role and value, our perception of our well-being depends on a large number of factors that do not relate only to material elements, but rather to aspects related to lifestyle, cultural participation and the time we dedicate to our bodies.
The Constantine 313 A.D. exhibition, of which Bracco Foundation is Main Partner, was designed by the Diocesan Museum and staged in the Palazzo Reale. The exhibition celebrates the anniversary of the issuing in 313 DC of the “Edict of Milan” by the Western Roman Emperor Constantine and his counterpart in the East, Licinius. It declared Christianity, after centuries of persecution, legal and so began a period of religious tolerance and great political and cultural innovation.
The book “Fulvio Bracco – From Neresine to Milan. Memories of an entrepreneur”, which recounts the personal and business histories of this charismatic figure, was presented in Palazzo Morando, Milan, on November 23, 2011 at 12.00, in the setting of the exhibition on the painter Angiolo D’Andrea, where the last room of the exhibition is entirely dedicated to the Bracco family.