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Hugues Merle | Genre painter
From National Gallery of Art: Born in 1823 at Saint-Marcellin (Isère), Hugues Merle studied in Paris with the history painter Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) and devoted himself to a wide range of subjects,...
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Ave Maria (Schubert)
"Ellens dritter Gesang" ("Ellens Gesang III", D. 839, Op. 52, No. 6, 1825), in English: "Ellen's Third Song", was composed by Franz Schubert in 1825 as part of his Op. 52, a setting of seven songs from...
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Dreams / Sogni, 1896
Vittorio Matteo Corcos returned in 1886 to Florence, where he painted the prominent and the fashionable portrait of a modern girl, Elena Vecchi, which has become the most emblematic image of the...
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Hugues Merle | The Lunatic of Etretat, 1871
"The Lunatic of Etretat" is a painting by French Academic artist Hugues Merle (1822-1881).It is part of the collection of the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia.The woman’s face is a mask of...
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "Ridi e il mondo riderà con te. Piangi, e piangerai da...
Ridi e il mondo riderà con te.Piangi, e piangerai da solo.Poiché il vecchio mondo triste deve prenderein prestito la sua allegria,ma ha già abbastanza guai per conto suo.Canta, e le colline ti...
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Gwenneth Barth-White | Pastel painter
American-born Swiss international artist Gwenneth Barth-White is a Maître Pastelliste of the 150-year-old Société des Pastellistes de France and has served as its Vice President for many years.She's a...
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Tomaso Albinoni | 12 Concerti a cinque (op. 9), 1722
12 Concerti a cinque (op. 9) is a collection of concertos by the Italian baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), published in 1722.The most famous piece from Albinoni's Opus 9 is the Concerto in...
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Anne Sexton | Noi / Us
Ero avvolta nella pelliccianera, nella pelliccia biancae tu mi svolgevie in una luce d’oropoi m’incoronasti,mentre fuori dardi di nevediagonali battevano alla porta.Joseph Lorusso... Read more .. »
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Charles Hawthorne | Portrait / Genre painter
Charles Webster Hawthorne (1872-1930) was an American painter and a noted teacher who founded the Cape Cod School of Art in 1899.He was born in Lodi, Illinois and his parents returned to Maine, raising...
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Salvatore Quasimodo | Il girasole piega a occidente / Almost a Madrigal
Il girasole piega a occidentee già precipita il giorno nel suoocchio in rovina e l'aria dell'estates'addensa e già curva le foglie e il fumodei cantieri. S'allontana con scorreresecco di nubi e...
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Ilya Repin | Historical / Genre painter
Ilya Yefimovich Repin / Илья́ Ефи́мович Ре́пин, (1844-1930), Russian painter of historical subjects known for the power and drama of his works.Born to a poor family near Kharkov, Repin learned his...
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Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky | At School Doors, 1897
Descending from peasant class, Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky dedicated a significant portion of his work to rural schoolchildren.His heroes hover indecisively at the classroom door, solve problems at the...
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Mozart | Concerto for Flute and Harp | 1 - Allegro
Mozart wrote the "Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major" in April 1778, during his seven-month sojourn in Paris.It was commissioned by Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes (1735-1806),...
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Louis-Ernest Barrias | Romantic / Art Nouveau sculptor
Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) was a French sculptor of the Beaux-Arts school.In 1865 Barrias won the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome.Barrias was involved in the decoration of...
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Václav Brožík | Academic painter
Václav Brožík (1851-1901) was a Czech painter who worked in the academic style.Brožík was born on 6 March 1851 in Třemošná, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic).He came from a poor family,...
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Franz Liszt | La Campanella
"La campanella" (Italian for "The little bell") is the subtitle given to the third of Franz Liszt's six Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141 (1851). It is in the key of G-sharp minor."La campanella" is a...
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Elli Michler | I wish you Time
I don't wish you all sorts of gifts.I just wish you, what most people don't have.I wish you the time to be happy and to laughand if you use it, you can make something out of it.I wish you the time for...
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Rocco Normanno, 1974 | Caravaggio's inspired painter
Rocco Normanno was born in Taurisano, a small town in the province of Lecce.There, he completed his secondary education at the Professional Institute for Commerce, and, in 2003, he graduated from the...
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JoAnn Peralta | Romantic painter
Fine Artist JoAnn Peralta's fine art paintings have captivated collectors with her keen sense of mood and lush brushwork since 2004.Each painting invokes a timeless romantic flair towards life and sets...
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Augustus Edwin Mulready | From morn til night, 1889
“From morn til night” is an oil on canvas artwork by British genre painter Augustus Edwin Mulready, created in 1889.The painting is part of the collection of the Christie's London.Augustus Edwin...
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Francesca (Fanny) Carlini | Fruttivendolo veneziano
Francesca (Fanny) Carlini (Venezia, 1859-1944), figlia del ritrattista Giulio Carlini (Venezia, 1826-1887), segue con buon successo la strada del padre.E’ una delle prime donne a diplomarsi...
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Radetzky March
The "Radetzky March", Op. 228, is a march composed by Johann Strauss (Senior) which was first performed on 31 August 1848 in Vienna to celebrate the victory of the Austrian Empire under Field Marshal...
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Peter Paul Rubens | Old woman and boy with candles, 1616-1617
An old woman gazes ahead, shielding her eyes from the candlelight, while the boy behind her holds his candle, ready to be lit.The panel is painted in the style of Caravaggio, whose work Peter Paul...
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Léopold Robert | Romantic genre painter
Louis Léopold Robert (1794-1835) was a Swiss painter.He was born at La Chaux-de-Fonds (Neuchâtel) in Switzerland, but left his native place with the engraver Jean Girardet at the age of sixteen for...
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The Dying Swan
The Dying Swan (originally The Swan) is a solo dance choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux as a pièce d'occasion for the ballerina Anna Pavlova,...
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