Artists and Movements

LIFE OF ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: 5 THINGS TO KNOW For a long time Artemisia Gentileschi was mentioned in art history books because she was the protagonist of a trial for sexual assault of which she was the victim. An event that for a long time overshadowed her talent. Still, Artemisia was a very important painter, sought-after and […]

WORKS BY FRIDA KAHLO YOU SHOULD KNOW Works by Frida Kahlo are a mix of life and pain, love and suffering. But do you know the most important works painted by this extraordinary artist? The life Frida is maybe more famous than her masterpieces, but it’s in her paintings that lies the true greatness of this […]

VAN GOGH MUSEUM TICKETS: HOW TO BOOK AND SKIP THE LINE Van Gogh Museum tickets and how to plan a visit to the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent Van Gogh. If you are planning to visit Amsterdam or you are a fan of Van Gogh’s works you should definitely see this museum. In this […]

LES DEMOISELLES D’AVIGNON BY PICASSO: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Considered by many scholars the first Cubist work, actually, Les demoiselles d’Avignon doesn’t decompose completely the volumes yet, but simplifies the forms. With this painting Picasso inaugurates a new season of art and provides the bases for what would be real Cubism. Here are 5 things to know […]

VAN GOGH MUSEUM WORKS: THE MASTERPIECES YOU MUST SEE Van Gogh Museum works you must see to avoid exiting the museum, which is the necessary stop of any journey to Amsterdam, without stopping in front of the most important masterpieces. It’s not easy to make a selection of the most important works of art, because it’s […]

APOLLO AND DAPHNE BY GIAN LORENZO BERNINI: 5 THINGS TO KNOW How many times have you looked Apollo and Daphne by Bernini for endless minutes? It often happens to me, and when I stayed before this amazing sculpture I couldn’t help but turn around it to observe it from all angles! In this post I encourage […]

RAPHAEL ROOMS: 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE ROOM OF THE SIGNATURA Have you ever seen Raphael Rooms? If you happened to be in front of the fresco “The School of Athens” or the “Deliverance of Saint Peter”, I am certain that you remained open-mouthed and looked upwards for a long time. It happened to […]

SELF-PORTRAIT BY VAN GOGH: 5 THINGS TO KNOW I’ve been wanting to write a post about the Self-Portrait by Van Gogh for a long time, but I had a problem: which one of his several self-portraits should I have described? Throughout his life Van Gogh painted about 40 self-portraits and each one seems to be […]

THE MAJA DESNUDA AND THE MAJA VESTIDA: 5 THINGS TO KNOW AND WHO THE WOMAN PORTRAYED BY GOYA IS Why are the Maja desnuda and the Maja vestida so famous? What makes these two paintings so appealing? The answer to these questions is in their story which holds more mysteries than certainties. In this post I’ ll lead […]

ART IN THE 16TH CENTURY: RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM Understanding art in the 16th century means dealing with great artists of Western art, those personalities who have influenced following artists and who, still today, are a model or a reference point. Have you understood who I’m talking about? After the post dedicated to Art in the 15th […]

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 […]