Artists and Movements

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

WHERE SOROLLA PAINTINGS ARE: SOROLLA MUSEUM The post containing the list of the most beautiful museums to see in Madrid comprises the Sorolla Museum, and now I’ll tell you why you must visit it and which works you must see. The house of the Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida is now one of the […]

VAN GOGH’S MASTERPIECES AND WORKS Van Gogh’s works have become great masterpieces of history of art only after the death of the artist. The life of Van Gogh is the most interesting example of a misunderstood genius, because almost nobody knew his talent when he was still alive and nobody recognized in his brushstrokes the major […]

AUGUSTE RODIN SCULPTOR: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Auguste Rodin sculptor, one of the most famous French sculptors ever, is the artist who moulded the matter to transform it into passion and energy. At the beginning his artistic career faced great difficulties, because his works were too modern for that time. His passion for Michelangelo and Italian Renaissance art led […]

THE THINKER BY RODIN: WHERE IT IS HOUSED AND WHO THE MAN PORTRAYED IS The Thinker by Rodin was exhibited for the first time in 1886 under the title “The Poet” and only starting from 1889 was named “The Thinker”. It’s one of the most famous works of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and after writing the […]

 WHERE YOU CAN ADMIRE THE KISS BY KLIMT AND WHAT IT PORTRAYS The Kiss by Klimt is one of the most famous kisses in history of art and, in fact, I put it on the special list of the Famous kisses: 5 masterpieces talking about love. Romantic, delicate, precious, the painting is one of Gustav Klimt’s […]

RAPHAEL, THE LIFE AND THE WORKS: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Raphael’s life was short but totally devoted to art. He was a highly talented artist but he had an aptitude for business, in fact he managed his workshop like a firm hiring dozens of assistants able to create any kind of works. Raphael, life and […]

RODIN AND CAMILLE CLAUDEL: A LOVE AND AN ART STORY If you had to give the story between Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel a title, it would probably be “Beauty and the Beast”. When they met he was already a famous sculptor, he was more than 40 years old, lame, short and also short-sighted. Camille, […]

VINCENT VAN GOGH: 5 THINGS TO KNOW Vincent Van Gogh was a mad and visionary painter. Symbol of the tormented artist who mixes genius with madness, his life was a race towards self-destruction, full of turns of events and violence, but also genial artworks ignored by his contemporaries and considered masterpieces by all those who […]

A MASTERPIECE BY BOTTICELLI AT THE UFFIZI GALLERY: THE CALUMNY OF APELLES There’s a masterpiece by Botticelli at the Uffizi Gallery, next to his famous “Primavera” (“Spring”). It’s a small painting which always runs the risk of passing unnoticed, but if you know it you can’t help but looking at it, because is full of […]

ANDY WARHOL: 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT HIS LIFE AND HIS WORKS After Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol is the most famous and important artist of the 20th century. His works have become icons of the contemporary era, and he celebrated Western consumerist and pop lifestyle, using photography in a new way, by choosing acid colours […]