"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."
Dove andiamo oggi? Beh, potremmo andare a vedere alcune delle installazioni aperte da lunedì oppure alcune di quelle che hanno aperto martedì o mercoledì, ma eccovi l'evento del giorno. Valorizzazione del territorio e connessioni tra arte e realtà virtuale Dove: AnciLab, Via Rovello, 2 Quando: giovedì 18 Aprile,...
The artist of this painting was born at Alexandria, Egypt, from English parents but he spent most of his childhood in American after his father died and his mother moved closer to her family. He was adopted by his aunt after his mother died too,...
[caption id="attachment_17027" align="aligncenter" width="550"] The Mermaid 1882 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833-1898 Bequeathed by Miss Katharine Elizabeth Lewis 1961 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T00457[/caption] In 1880 Burne-Jones acquired a second home at Rottingdean, near Brighton, to which he often retreated from the bustle of London. Encouraged by his proximity...
Piero della Francesca was born in Borgo San Sepolcro, Tuscany, in 1412. This will be important later. After spending decades honing his craft, he was hailed as both a great mathematician and an unparalleled painter, celebrated for his mastery of light and space. If we understand...
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. ...
