Starting from October 8 and until February 6, 2011 Rome is going to offer and extraordinary exhibition at the Vittoriano complex: a lot of Vincent Van Gogh paintings but also various ones by Gauguin, Cezanne, Pissarro and Millet. The title is “Vincent Van Gogh: timeless country and modern city” to point out the artist’s favourite subjects.
60 years ago the first Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz was published and it went on until February 13, 2000, the day after their author’s death.
This famous comic strip was originated by a previous work by Charles Schulz titled Lil’l Folks that was published on the author’s hometown newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, between 1947 and 1950. When the new, more sophisticated, comic strip started being published by United Feature Syndicate the name was changed to Peanuts to avoid confusion with other comic strips that were famous at the time.
