In the presence of the Mayor of Milan Letizia Moratti and numerous personalities from the worlds of culture and institutions, including Lorin Maazel, Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Maria Benedetta Donati and Livia Pomodoro, today in Milan saw the presentation of Bracco Foundation, a major new cultural institution on the Italian scene.
As part of the Foundation’s activities supporting the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, on the evening of February 18, 2013, guests will have the chance to visit the exhibition which, inspired by one of the most important works in the museum, the recently restored Imago Pietatis by Giovanni Bellini, examines the formal evolution of the iconography of Piety in the artistic works of Bellini between 1450 and 1470 through for extraordinary masterpieces by the artist portraying the subject, housed in the Milanese museum, in the Bergamo Accademia Carrara, in the Venice Museo Correr and in the Museo della Città di Rimini.
The Fondazione Umberto Veronesi Foundation in collaboration with Fondazione Bracco is launching a series of three meetings on prevention for women, entitled “Women & Science”.
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.
Bracco Foundation and the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome organised the seminar “Prevention and Diagnosis of breast cancer: friends of young women,” in order to improve the culture of prevention in such an important area as breast cancer, the most frequent form of cancer among young women in Italy.
The second in the series of meetings on “Women & Science” based on prevention for women, organized by the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi in collaboration with Bracco Foundation, is starting.
In the cycle “Bracco Foundation Meets”, the second appointment sees as protagonist Prof Alberto Quadrio Curzio, the noted Italian economist, who offers reflections on causes and possible developments of the current economic situation.
From the developments on the frontiers of contemporary science to a credible image of the world in 2062, the year when Halley’s Comet will make its next appearance.
The fourth round in the “Bracco Foundation Meets” cycle of conversations tackles one of the most topical and lively subjects of international debate: the future of the euro.
