This artistic legacy rivals, or even surpasses, that of Venice and Istanbul. Ravenna has a whopping 8 UNESCO sites to explore
Learn to make mosaics in Ravenna
The Mosaic Art School, founded in 1969 in Ravenna, offers a range of classes teaching the art of mosaics and also mosaic restoration. A 5-day intensive course, taught in English, is suitable for all levels including beginners is recommended by Lonely Planet. I’d love to return to Ravenna one day to take this course and to see the UNESCO sites I missed during my first visit.
An online Floor Mosaics course (with videos in Italian and subtitles in English, French, German, and Spanish) now makes it possible to learn about this ancient art form at home.
Through the centuries, many famous artists and writers arrived to admire Ravenna’s sparkling mosaics — George Byron, Gustav Klimt, Oscar Wilde, and Herman Hesse. Perhaps the most famous devotee was Dante Alighieri, the author of the Divine Comedy and father of the Italian language.
After being exiled from Florence for his political beliefs, Dante spent his last three years in Ravenna, dying there in 1321.
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SEC is giving companies four days to report cyberattacks
Quartz: “The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants public companies to be more transparent and forthcoming about “material cybersecurity incidents,” the federal agency said yesterday (July 26). Its new rules, passed by a 3-2 vote, dictate companies must disclose details of incidents and their effect on the bottomline in a section of the Form 8-K, a broad form companies use to notify shareholders of major events, within four days of a cybersecurity event. A delay in filing will only be allowed if the US Attorney General determines that “immediate disclosure would pose a substantial risk to national security or public safety and notifies the Commission of such determination in writing,” the SEC said. Final rules, which will be signed into the Federal Register later this year, will apply to big companies within 30 days. Smaller companies will be given a more generous deadline—180 days—to comply.”
