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Auguste Rodin | L'Adieu / Farewell, 1898
The Farewell or The Convalescent / L'adieu - is composed of Camille Claudel with short hair (1884) and two independent hands added in front of her face, the work attests to Rodin's passion for...
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Mariangela Gualtieri | Amore mio / My love
Amore mio,è difficile da questo fondo, da questo finale, dire come mi manchi,come immenso tu sei nel mancare, adesso che mi sono persafra masse dure, fra cinghie di buio pesto, senza divinità,senza la...
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Luigi Russolo | Futurist painter
Luigi Carlo Filippo Russolo (1885-1947) was an Italian Futurist painter, composer, builder of experimental musical instruments, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises (1913).Russolo...
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Leonardo da Vinci | Ultima Cena / Last Supper, 1494-1498
Last Supper, one of the most famous artworks in the world, painted by Leonardo da Vinci probably between 1494 and 1498 for the Dominican monastery Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.It depicts the...
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Grazia Deledda (Nobel Prize) | While the east wind blows, 1905
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (1871-1936) was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "For her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture...
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Carl von Marr | Genre painter
Carl von Marr (1858-1936) was an American-born German painter whose work encompassed religious and mythological subjects, genre and portraits.He was also a professor of art in Munich.He was born in...
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Cecil van Haanen | Genre painter
Cecil van Haanen (1844-1914) was a Vienna-born Dutch portrait and genre painter, whose significant work was centred at Venice.Van Haanen was the son to landscape painter Remigius Adrianus Haanen...
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Emily Dickinson | Marzo: Mese di attesa / March: Month of expectation, 1877
Marzo: mese di attesa.Le cose che ignoriamo -E le persone del nostro presagioSono in cammino -Ci sforziamo di fingere fermezza -Come si deve, ma la gioia solenneClaude Monet | Strada Romana at...
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Claude Monet | Nazi looting / Il saccheggio nazista
Under the Nazi regime, both in Germany from 1933 and in German-occupied countries until 1945, Jewish art collectors of Monet were robbed by Nazis and their agents.Several of the stolen artworks have...
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Wilhelm Leibl | Genre painter
Wilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl (1844-1900) was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life.Leibl was born in Cologne, where his father was the director of the Cathedral choir.He was...
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Louis Béroud (1852-1930)
Louis Béroud (1852-1930) was a French painter, a student of Léon Bonnat, renowned for his detailed and realistic works, often depicting interior scenes of famous museums, including the Louvre.Some of...
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Jehan-Georges Vibert | Academic painter
Jehan Georges Vibert or Jean Georges Vibert (1840-1902) was a French academic painter.He was born in Paris, the son of engraver and publisher Théodore Vibert, and grandson of the influential...
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Paul Emil Jacobs | Orientalist painter
Paul Emil Jacobs (1802-1866) was a German painter, noted for Orientalist themes, portraits and figures.Jacobs, son of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the Munich Academy...
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Women Artists | Sitemap
"Someone, I say, will remember us in the future"."Qualcuno, dico, si ricorderà di noi in futuro".SaffoThe absence of women from the canon of Western art has been a subject of inquiry and...
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Wisława Szymborska | Ritratto di Donna / Portrait of a Woman
Deve essere a scelta.Cambiare, purché niente cambi.È facile, impossibile, difficile, ne vale la pena.Ha gli occhi, se occorre, ora azzurri, ora grigi,neri, allegri, senza motivo pieni di lacrime.Egon...
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Scottish painter Jack Vettriano dies aged 73
Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, best known for his painting The Singing Butler, has died at the age of 73.His publicist said the artist was found dead at his apartment in Nice, in the south of France,...
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Antonio Nunziante, 1956 | Il maestro della Metafisica
Il pittore Italiano Antonio Nunziante afferma che tra Surrealismo e Metafisica: "c’è una commistione.Mediamente la metafisica mi da più apertura, nel senso che è una realtà possibile e più vicina a...
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Marc Chagall | The Tree of Life, 1963 | Stained glass
The Tree of Life or The Peace window - La Paix ou L’Arbre de vie - at the chapel of Cordeliers of Sarrebourg, a small town in the Vosges Mountains in France, is a stained-glass window about 15 feet...
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Albert Camus | Invincibile estate / Within Me
Mia cara,nel bel mezzo dell’odioho scoperto che vi era in meun invincibile amore.Nel bel mezzo delle lacrimeho scoperto che vi era in meun invincibile sorriso.Marc Chagall... Read more .. »
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Jean-André Rixens | Orientalist painter
Jean-André Rixens (1846-1925) was a French painter, known for his classical scenes and portraits.He was born in Saint-Gaudens. His father was a master shoemaker.After completing his basic education, he...
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