"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
We're taking the run-up to prepare for April 15th, when Impressionism will celebrate 150 years from its conventional birth. It was April 15th 1874 in fact, at the studio of photographer Félix Nadar in 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, when the group of rascals later...
The Diocesano Museum in Milan is one of the most interesting realities on the territory, both for its permanent collection and for its habit of organizing temporary exhibitions around one single piece, usually borrowed from a prestigious museum in another city. The depth you require...
Giuseppe De Nittis is a greatly underrated painter. or at least he has been for quite some time, and he's now considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 19th century. One of the reasons that saw him shunned by intellectuals had to not...
I can bear a little Picasso if I could stand Rodin last season, but it might be irksome to some of us, attending an exhibition on Picasso that’s particularly related to his “primitivism” period: the man was an asshole to women, and his fetishized approach...
The amazing Tatiana Fajardo posted this painting back on Xitter (go and follow her if you don't) and I just couldn't let it go. The author is Alexander Davis Cooper, a British 19th-century painter born in 1820, and the painting is part of the Atkinson Art...
A Sea-Spell is a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti representing a woman playing the lyre: it was paired with a poem on the subject, and three other paintings of women engaged in various forms of artistic expressions. It's today's focus on my Patreon. ...
In Hellenistic and Roman mythology, Kyparissos was one of the many boys loved by Apollo, like Hyacinth and just as lucky. The myth of his transformation into the mourning tree is connected with either Apollo or Silvanus, with an unfortunate deer and with the endless...
On this day in 1547, and not a moment too soon, Henry VIII dies in the Palace of Whitehall. Having killed two of his wives isn't his only feat: during his reign, as many as 72,000 people were executed by boiling, burning at the stake,...
Overlooking Piazza della Scala in the stunning building called Gallerie d'Italia, the exhibition explores the production of Giovan Battista Moroni (1520 - 1579) with over 100 paintings and drawings, also featuring books, jewels and a piece of armour. Works from Lorenzo Lotto, Tiziano, Veronese and...
Yesterday I published an overview of this temporary display at the Museo Diocesano here in Milan. Today, as promised, I give you a piece-by-piece rundown. Ezekiel's Vision The first quadrant is the most complex: it depicts two concentric wheels: an inner one alternates the four Evangelists with their...
