Schools and Periods

GLASS ARTWORKS: INSPIRATIONS AND IDEAS FROM THE ART WORLD Creativity has no limits and you can create paper artworks but also glass artworks. In this post you’ll find a selection of glass artworks. Glass artworks

PAPER ARTWORKS: ISPIRATIONS AND IDEAS FROM THE ART WORLD Art is anywhere and you can be creative with any material and you can even create paper artworks. In this post you’ll find a selection of amazing paper artworks. Paper artworks

WOMEN IN MACCHIAIOLI’S WORKS: THE MASTERPIECES TO KNOW AND WOMEN’S ROLE The success of Macchiaioli’s works depends certainly on beauty of their paintings, but the role played by women was decisive, too. Woman enters Macchiaioli’s paintings in a brand new way, and the success depends also on the strength of some special women. Macchiaioli’s works and […]

ART IN THE 19TH CENTURY BETWEEN NATURE AND EMOTION What does it change in art world in the 19thcentury and what do artists want? It’s an important historic period, where art enters a new phase. Clients and also artists change: artists want to transfer their feelings on their works. In this post I’ll talk about […]

ART NOUVEAU STYLE IN NAPLES: ARTISTS AND WORKS What was Art Nouveau style in Naples and who are the most important artists? A new artistic style which spread all over Europe, between the late 19th century and the early 20th century, with its sinuous shapes inspired by nature. At that time Naples was a cosmopolitan […]

DUTCH ART IN ITALY: THE WORKS OF THE DUTCH MASTERS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM From Hieronymus Bosch to Mondrian, and from Rembrandt to van Gogh: do you know that you can admire Dutch art in Italy? Some Dutch masterpieces are housed in Italian museums and will make you have an amazing journey into Dutch […]

ART OF THE 18TH CENTURY: ARTISTS, WORKS AND THE CLASSICAL IDEAL The Art of the 18th century is characterized by the transition from Baroque and Rococo to Neoclassicism. It’s the century of revolutions, from American to French to industrial ones, but is also the century of Enlightenment and great archaeological discoveries. So, in a climate […]

ART IN THE 17TH CENTURY BETWEEN BAROQUE AND CLASSICISM Understanding the art in the 17th century means discovering two great artistic movements: Baroque and Classicism. Two different ways to communicate and make art that I’ll explain in this post. Art in the 17th century

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 […]

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 […]

POP ART ARTISTS: 5 ARTISTS YOU MUST KNOW Pop Art artists, that is to say which artists you must know to affirm that you know almost everything about one of the most beloved artistic movements. Developed in the second half of the 20thcentury as “popular art”, Pop Art is “popular art” by definition, because it […]

ROMANTICISM: ARTISTS AND WORKS Romanticism is that phase in which artist begins looking towards himself to project his own feelings and aspirations onto his works. Artists who joined this movement underlined the importance of feelings and imagination rather than rationality. More than an artistic movement Romanticism was a life style and artists, poets and musicians of the Romantic […]

ART LITHOGRAPH: WHAT IT IS AND AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS Greatest artists have always loved experimenting with new techniques and many of them, starting from the early 19thcentury, have created works using the technique of lithography. But what is exactly lithography and which are the available instruments that today an artist can use to create […]

MANNERISM: DEFINITION, WORKS AND ARTISTS Mannerism marks the end of Renaissance. It’s a very long period, covering almost all the 16th century and which was theorized for the first time by Giorgio Vasari, who indicated as masters of Renaissance absolute perfection Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, whereas all the following artists would only imitate the greatest […]

ABSTRACT ART Abstract art is an artistic movement developed in the early 20th century, and takes on the meaning of “not real”. The path which led to Abstract art originated from Symbolism, which recalled sounds, feelings and emotions without necessarily representing reality for what it is, but inserting images more similar to dreams and nightmares. […]

NEOCLASSICISM: WHAT IT IS AND WHEN IT DEVELOPED In my blog I’ve often mentioned Neoclassicism. I’ve been thinking about a post dedicated to Neoclassicism for a while, in order to explain once and for all in which period this movement developed and who the major artists of this movement are. In this post you’ll find […]

SURREALISM: WHEN IT DEVELOPED AND WHAT IT REPRESENTS Surrealism, more than an art movement, was a cultural movement, heir of Dadaism. The Surrealist manifesto, written by André Breton, dates back to 1924, and it affirms that surreal is the only way to reach a superior reality, thanks to the fusion of two realities which characterize […]

BAROQUE ART: THE ARTISTS OF THE BAROQUE PERIOD When I admire a Baroque masterpiece I always situate the artists of that period in the world of cinema. A far as I’m concerned, the artists of Baroque art would have been directors of films with spectacular special effects. When I see an artwork I often imagine that […]

IMPRESSIONIST PAINTERS On April 15th 1874 in a photographer’s studio at 35 boulevard des Capucines the first Impressionist exhibition was presented. I wrote the details of the importance and the consequences of that event in a post in which I explained what Impressionism is. That exhibition was only the beginning for some young artists who […]

STILL LIFE: CARAVAGGIO AND THE BASKET OF FRUIT Still life Caravaggio. Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit is considered to be the first Italian still-life painting, a pictorial genre which already existed and had a long tradition behind, and whose undisputed masters were the Flemish painters. In Italy the use of still life was only a decorative […]