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Giovanni Battista Moroni | Mannerist painter
Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/4-1579) is one of the most famous North Italian portrait specialists of the 16th century.He was a native of Albino, near Bergamo.In his early years he worked in Brescia...
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Giovanni Segantini: ".. Amè piace fare all'amore colle mie concessioni…"
•"… Sarò felice quel giorno che noi in un eletto drappello combatteremo uniti contro la volgarità per la bellezza del senso del colore, per la luce che dà vita alla natura, per la purezza viva e...
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Rembrandt | The Night Watch, 1642
Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The...
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Federico Garcia Lorca | Desiderio / Wish
Solo il tuo cuore ardente…niente più.Il mio paradiso…un campo senza usignolo né lire,con un fiume discreto e una fontanella.Senza lo sprone del vento sopra le frondené la stella che vuole essere...
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Peter Falk (Lieutenant Columbo), the painter
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer.He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the...
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Luigi Nono | Genre painter
Luigi Nono (1850-1918) was an Venetian painter.A young Nono entered the Accademia of Venice, then under the leadership of Pompeo Marino Molmenti. But by at the age of twenty years, he went to Polcenigo...
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Lettere d'amore | Eleonora Duse a Gabriele D’Annunzio: "Eccoti l’anima mia"
Eleonora Duse (1858-1924) incontra per la prima volta Gabriele D'Annunzio (Scrittore, poeta, drammaturgo, militare, politico, giornalista, 1863-1938) nel 1882, a Roma: quest'ultimo è un giovane...
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Antonia Pozzi | La vita sognata, 1933
Chi mi parla non sache io ho vissuto un’altra vita -come chi dicauna fiabao una parabola santa.Perchè tu erila purità mia,tu cui un’onda biancadi tristezza cadeva sul voltoAmedeo Modigliani | Portrait...
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Wisława Szymborska | The poet and the world
Described by the Nobel committee as the "Mozart of poetry" but with "something of the fury of Beethoven", Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012) was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature"for poetry that...
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Wisława Szymborska | Il poeta ed il mondo
Descritta dal comitato per il Nobel come il "Mozart della poesia" ma con "qualcosa della furia di Beethoven", Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012) è stata insignita del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel...
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Gustave Caillebotte | Les Jardiniers, 1877
Exhibited publicly only once in the past century and a half, Gustave Caillebotte’s (1848-1894)Les Jardiniers is a celebrated early example of the artist’s garden compositions, which was rediscovered in...
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Egyptian blue | The first synthetic pigment in history
Egyptian blue, also known as calcium copper silicate (calcium copper tetrasilicate) or cuprorivaite, is a pigment that was used in ancient Egypt for thousands of years.It is considered to be the first...
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Pompeian red | Ancient colors
Pompeian red refers to the color of iron oxide-based mineral pigment with a hue close to red ochre, so named because of its common use in ancient Roman painting and the fact that it is abundant in the...
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Hermann Hesse | In the Fog / Nella Nebbia / Im Nebel
Strano vagare nella nebbia!È solo ogni cespuglio ed ogni pietra,né gli alberi si scorgono tra loro,ognuno è solo.Pieno di amici mi appariva il mondoquando era la mia vita ancora chiara;adesso che la...
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Petrarca | Chiare fresche e dolci acque / Clear, sweet fresh water
Chiare, fresche et dolci acqueè la canzone numero CXXVI (126) del Canzoniere di Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374).Fu scritta tra il 1340-1341 ed il poeta fu ispirato, molto probabilmente, dal fiume...
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Igor Levashov [Игорь Левашов] 1964 | Flower painter
Born near Moscow, Russian painterИгорь Левашов entered the School for Young Painters in 1997 and the world-famed Sourykoff Institute in Moscow in 1984.He finished his formal training at the Royal...
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Pascal Campion, 1973 | Conceptual illustrator / animator
Pascal Campion is a French American prolific illustrator and storyteller. He has worked decades in the field of animation, illustration and commercials. Born in River Edge, New Jersey, Pascal began his...
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Vittore Carpaccio | Mannerist painter
Vittore Carpaccio (1460/1465-1525) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini.Carpaccio was largely influenced by the style of the early Italian Renaissance painter...
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Margaret Mead | Remember me / Ricordati di me
Years ago, American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture.The student...
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Paolo Sala | Veduta painter
Paolo Sala (1859-1924) was an Italian painter, mainly of vedute and genre scenes.He often painted dal vero, that is, en plein air.He was also known for his ability to paint animals in rural scenes.He...
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