Bernini’s Quest for Happiness:the story of St. Peter’s SquareBy Peter de KusterIn Search of Happiness In the golden haze of a Roman afternoon, where cypresses pierce the sky like a sculptor’s chisels and the Tiber hums with centuries of ambition, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) pursued true happiness not through idle leisure or fleeting fame, but…

The Grand Tour: A Guide to Everyday Happiness – Italian Style celebrates the timeless Italian art of living well. It is dedicated to guiding modern travelers—curious minds and kindred spirits—on a journey toward rediscovering happiness, meaning, and beauty in the everyday. Founded on the belief that life is richer when lived with passion, curiosity, and…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My creativity, which I make available to the world. My ability to read a person’s soul and to design in accordance. To derive inspiration from nature and to translate it into fashion. To highlight the human figure through colours, modelling, embroidery, fabrics, decorations. What is…

Each year sees hundreds of books published with advice on how to stay trim, how to grow rich, or how to develop self-confidence. While these self-help books may help a reader in the short term, they are likely to be unsatisfying, for they do little to enhance the quality of experience. But what really does…

Hagoromo was Massimo Bartolini’s first ‘major’ work in 1989. It is also the title of the retrospective exhibition of this Tuscan artist at the Luigi Pecci Center. Hagoromo, ‘the cloak of feathers’ is a well-known Japanese Noh theater piece in which mythology plays an important role. Bartolini often chooses to base his installations on other…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  Probably what I like the most is the fact that every new project is a new journey, sometimes you finish a project and you are exausted but the idea of a new creative process gives you back energies almost instantly. What is my idea…

Alexandra Pana – Freelance writer, literary consultant and teacher What do I love most about my work? The great thing about being a writer is that I always have escapism at my fingertips. No matter what I’m writing about, whether it’s one of my own personal stories, or some commissioned article about relationships or cats,…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  The thing I love most about my work is that I always get richer in energy, a part of me is always regenerated. It reminds me when children do not want to go to sleep not to stop the game. What is my idea of perfect happiness?  Feel free from…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Blocking the moment i shoot the photos, and reviewing the photos i did some years after. Priceless. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Live easy and not to be worried about money. What is my greatest fear? Lose the people i love again….

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  Painting involves my body and my brain, it’s a trip through my story. When I paint I become a mirror between reality and my sub-conscious. What is my idea of perfect happiness?  An empty beach with warm bright water What is my greatest fear?  Not to be able to talk…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What is my idea of perfect happiness? The thing I like the most is that it’s a continous research, a perpetual exploring and learning new and different things, aware that one only life isn’ t sufficient. What is my greatest fear? It’s that I…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Meet people, see their look that becomes alive, intense, change of point of view Incontrare le persone, vedere il loro sguardo che diventa vivo, intenso, cambiamento di punto di vista. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Enjoy what’s in the moment without wanting…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Sono una editor e l’empatia che si crea ogni volta con l’autore e la storia che mi viene affidata è, senza dubbio, la parte che amo di più del mio lavoro. Ogni editing rappresenta un nuovo, meraviglioso, viaggio. I am an editor and the…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?In order to be a professional web marketer, you have to be a little crazy, creative, sensitive and, at the same time, you have to use logic. I am not the one who has chosen that work, it is this job that has chosen me!…

What I like most about my job is that every day is different, it’s never repetitive. Everyday there’s something new to learn and to discover. My idea of happiness is something that you can reach only for short moments during your lifetime. What’s difficult is being able ti catch and appreciate those little moments: the…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being able to express my deepest and most secret emotions through my painting…An expansion of myself that is a constant discovery. While painting the story unfolds, and I am naked and vulnerable…and that is also strength and powerful. Such a gift! What is my…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  Surely the possibility of being able to live different lives and different eras with contrasting personalities: a way to know each other better and understand their limits.  Sicuramente la possibilità di poter vivere differenti vite e varie epoche con contrastanti personalità: un modo per conoscersi meglio…

What’s the best thing I love about my job? The best thing I love about my work is to express my vision of the world through images: to create new parallel worlds and to tell silent stories, where those who look at my art can imagine what they want. What is my idea of perfect happiness? My…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The freedom of travelling everywhere, working with people who wants to share and improve their lives What is my idea of perfect happiness? Live in harmony with oneself and with others What is my greatest fear? my greatest fear is dying without having made all my…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I am an editor, I mainly deal with novels. The thing I love the most is contributing to the creative process of a writer I’m working with. In a certain way I am his “second eye”, it’s great to help him express his own…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?​ I love to ​hear carefully ​the stories my patients tell me, and helping them ​through ​empathy and taking ​them towards new possibilities. What is my idea of perfect happiness?​ Happiness for me is the possibility to w​ake up every morning with the awareness that…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The simplicity and the complexity that melt together. I think one of the beautiful things is the possibility to connect with myself (body and mind) and with people and things are around me. I can be alone. I can be with other people. I…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  I love being able to talk, tell stories, worlds, fantastic reality through what I can do with my hands. Whether it is an illustration, an embroidery, a sculpture, a tattoo, a mural, the support is indifferent for me because I love all these techniques and…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? My work is exactly what I want to do in my life. It could seems banal but I learned that loving what you do is a privilege and it is not so common. Since I was a little girl I’ve always drawn. That’s what…

What is the best thing that I love about my work?  Having fun. Of course there’s many other things about it that I love – I mean, I work with art, records, books, comics and bands, how could I not love every single part of it? But the thing I love the most is that…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? What I love the most about my work is the unknown. I love to discover within myself and on the canvas, images that are always new and unpredicted, and then to realize them with the huge challenge of control and equilibrium on the canvas…Visions that…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? With my drawings I can fight my introversion, my insecurity and show what I really am. I can express what I need to throw out and, at the same time, know a lot of people and their opinion. I learn a lot and I love…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love to create! What is my idea of perfect happiness? Create with others and working with peace and generosity. What is my greatest fear? To not live fully. What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? Laziness Which living persons in…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? I love my job because it is a constant challenge against oneself, to be sincere and true, sharing one’s own experiences, creating emotions among the public. It is a job that makes you feel alive. What is my idea of perfect happiness? being able to live…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Surely the pleasure of acting in a fullness that does not give room to time to flow. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Happiness is being more and more keen on yourself and acting accordingly. What is my greatest fear? Fear is losing touch with the…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The thing I love the most about my work is the chance to express what I feel inside, being able to move people or pull the strings of their hearts. What is my idea of perfect happiness? The perfect happiness?! That’s the million-dollar question! I think…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The paeceful mode in which I can enter when I’m too tired of the world. It’s my last option and my favourite game ever. What is my idea of perfect happiness? No schedules; no “venomous” people around me; silence, beautiful colors, spring. And a sketchbook and…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? To manage it as I want to. It was born as a hobby and I could never think to it as a constraining activity. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Being independent and satisfied about my life, not spending a day in a…

First thing I have to say is that my work is new for me as a Job, but very old as a passion. At the moment I love everything about it. Decorating spaces, looking for props, taking pictures and styling, creating accessories. Using my hands and being creative from early morning to evening, is an amazing…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Interact with people and help them achieve their dreams. My work is a continuous stimulus allows me to know new projects, new perspectives, the best part is to know the projects and contribute to their realization. What is my idea of ​​perfect happiness? The…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Expressing totally myself doing what I love the most and telling great and inspiring stories. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Being able to balance work and family, that’s what happiness means to me. What is my greatest fear? The fear itself, the…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? Being in touch with people. Comparison and sharing are essential to me. It is always a source of human and intellectual enrichment. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Finding a balance between private and professional life, with the awareness of doing my best on both…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The possibility to use creative and manual skills every day, to create something from nothing, and to be able to see the infinite shades of colors that surround us. What is my idea of perfect happiness? Sitting on a lake shore at sunrise, observing…

What is the best thing that I love about my work? The possibility of communicating in a universal way. What is my idea of perfect happiness? To have time to do what I love when I want to do it What is my greatest fear? No longer being able to create. In particular, I am afraid of losing…