Artists and Movements

VERMEER’S MILKMAID: DESCRIPTION AND MEANING OF THE PAINTING What does Vermeer’s Milkmaid represent?  A maid pouring some milk from a jug, you may say! The question may be insignificant, but is that which makes this painting a masterpiece? In this post I’ll try to answer this question, being aware that this is a painting arousing […]

FRIDA KAHLO LIFE AND QUOTES: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Frida Kahlo life and famous quotes of a unique artist. Everybody knows Frida and her works. But who really was she? Her life was short, intense and painful, and in this post I’ll talk about her in 5 points and 5 famous quotes. Frida Kahlo life and […]

WHERE THE KISS BY HAYEZ IS HOUSED AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS Everyone knows the Kiss by Hayez, but not everyone knows where it is housed and what the painting made by the father of Italian Romanticism represents. It’s a wonderful painting that has always enthralled me for its story as well as the feeling it […]

MICHELANGELO’ S PIETÀ: 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE VATICAN PIETÀ If I think of Saint Peter’s Basilica, the first work of art that comes to my mind is Michelangelo’s Pietà. What about you? It is impossible for you to enter St. Peter’s Basilica and not to notice one of Michelangelo’s masterpieces, the most poetic […]

THE TURKISH BATH BY INGRES: EVERYTHING YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE PAINTING The Turkish Bath by Ingres is an exercise of imagination! It’s one of those masterpieces originated from the creative mind of a great artist who, inspired by the description given by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Turkey, painted a […]

15TH CENTURY ART: EARLY RENAISSANCE  Studying the evolution of the 15th century art is amazing. Then, if you think that it’s at the end of the 15th century, precisely in 1492, that the most significant event of this wonderful century occurred, that is the Discovery of America, then you’ll understand that creativity and ingenuity are the […]

I’ve often been before the Self-Portrait by Raphael, never in the city housing it (Florence) but always on the occasion of exhibitions of various kinds. This self-portrait is charming and Raphael’s look is the sweetest you can imagine. In this post I’ll analyze the work and describe this painting, also thanks to some curiosities, but I’ll […]

THE GRANDE ODALISQUE BY INGRES: MEANING AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PAINTING In front of a beautiful woman such as the Grande Odalisque by Ingres I can’t help wondering who she is and why an artist decided to paint her giving her immortality. After describing The Source by Ingres I decided to write a new post […]

WORKS BY LEONARDO: WHICH THEY ARE AND WHERE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS ARE HOUSED The fascination of Leonardo’s masterpieces, famous and beautiful works, makes everybody agree. In the collective imagination Leonardo is the universal genius, an architect, a scientist, an artist and an engineer, a precursor of times who has left in total only around 20 paintings. In […]

MEDUSA BY CARAVAGGIO: WHERE IT IS HOUSED AND ITS MEANING Medusa by Caravaggio is splatter! I do believe that if he had lived nowadays, Caravaggio would have become a film director like Quentin Tarantino, and those who saw “Pulp Fiction” and similar movies, know what I’m talking about. Medusa by Caravaggio is characterized by a shocked […]

Van Gogh movie. At Eternity’s Gate, after having been presented Venice Film Festival in 2018 and I sincerely could not wait to arrive in the cinemas. The film directed by Julian Scnabel is presented at the cinema with some prestigious awards and a coveted nomination. The film received the Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award and the director Julian […]

MEANING OF BOTTICELLI’S PRIMAVERA: DESCRIPTION, CHARACTERS I have wondered many times which the true meaning of Botticelli’s Primavera could be, a work that after hundreds years from its creation still exerts a great fascination on a wide public. After the post the Birth of Venus and Botticelli’s muse it was time to describe the other great masterpiece […]

THE DONI TONDO BY MICHELANGELO: WHERE IT IS HOUSED AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS Admiring for the first time The Doni Tondo by Michelangelo Buonarroti was thrilling. I was at the Uffizi Gallery for the traditional high school trip and when I came across it, I understood that art must be experienced at first hand. You […]

JAN VAN EYCK’S WORKS: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Jan van Eyck’s works and some curiosities about the most influential and mysterious artist Western painting has ever had. The perfection of Jan van Eyck’s works leaves you breathless and his technique is the forerunner of that used by many other great artists who will come after him. In […]

MICHELANGELO’S WORKS. WHICH ONES THEY ARE AND WHERE HIS MOST BEAUTIFUL WORKS ARE HOUSED There are many Michelangelo’s masterpieces, famous and very important works everyone should admire at least once in a lifetime. Because Michelangelo is the Renaissance artist par excellence. In the post Michelangelo Buonarroti: 5 things to know I’ve already described the main features of […]

WORKS BY KLIMT: WHICH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ARE AND WHERE THEY ARE HOUSED There are many beautiful and important works by Klimt, but do you know where are they housed? After my post dedicated to 5 things to know about Klimt, now I’ll make a list of the most beautiful works of the father of the Vienna […]

GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE AND THE FLOOR SCRAPERS Gustave Caillebotte and the Floor Scrapers are the most representative example of how much artists and masterpieces are ignored by the general public and which, instead, are more significant than they look. Gustave Caillebotte is the Impressionist painter who more than others was overcome by Claude Monet and for this […]

DEGAS’S DANCER: THE LITTLE DANCER OF FOURTEEN YEARS Degas’s dancer is beautiful and delicate but she has a sad story and every time I see her I can’t help thinking about what she had to go through. The statue, exhibited at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881, was found in Degas’s studio after his death in […]

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC’ S WORKS: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECES Toulouse-Lautrec’s works renovated the genre of advertising posters of the late 19thcentury.  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was one of the most sought-after illustrators and drawers in Paris in the late 19thcentury. He was commissioned to create advertising posters for stage shows, ballets and performances at the nightclubs and illustrations for important […]

5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GUSTAV KLIMT Gustav Klimt was the protagonist of the Vienna Secession movement, and the driving force of a renewal of European art. He painted fascinating society women wrapped in thick decorations, but he was also the author of bright mosaics and majestic allegories. 5 things to know about Gustav Klimt