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Antonio Canova | Paolina Borghese, 1805-1808

The reclining Paolina Borghese as Venus Victrix in the center of the room holds an apple in her hand, evoking the Venus Victrix in the judgement of Paris, who was chosen to settle a dispute between Juno (power), Minerva (arts and science) and Venus (love).
The same subject was painted on the ceiling by Domenico de Angelis (1779), framed by Giovan Battista Marchetti's tromp d'oeil architecture, and was inspired by a famous relief on the façade of the Villa Medici.
This marble statue of Pauline in a highly refined pose is considered a supreme example of the Neoclassical style.


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Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1982

Andy Warhol saw the famous portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by J. H. Wilhelm Tischbein during a visit to the Städel.
As the quintessence of German culture, it inspired him to create this work and other prints, some of which are likewise in the Städel collection.
In 1962 Warhol - a key figure of American Pop Art - began reproducing press photos of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley with the silkscreen technique.

Andy Warhol | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1982 | Städel Museum, Frankfurt

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Audrey Hepburn: "Paris is always a good idea!"

"I love the night passionately.
I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love.
I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.


Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light.
The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space" - Guy de Maupassant
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Gustave Eiffel: "I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am"..

"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even - the French air clears up the brain and does good - a world of good" - Vincent van Gogh.


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Antonio Basoli's Architectural Alphabet

Antonio Basoli (1774-1848) was an Italian painter, interior designer, scenic designer, and engraver, active mostly in Bologna.
His first teacher was his father, Lelio Andrea Basoli.
His education was motivated by an insatiable and constant interest in classic art, classic and contemporary literature, and the works, decorations and inscriptions of Piranesi.


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William Blake | Pittore Simbolista / Romantico

Tigre! Tigre! divampante fulgore
Nelle foreste della notte,
Quale fu l'immortale mano o l'occhio
Ch'ebbe la forza di formare


La tua agghiacciante simmetria?
Amor non cerca di compiacer se stesso
Né per se stesso ha cura
Ma per un altro ogni favor rassegna
E il Cielo erige in un oscuro inferno.

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Paris painting

"Paris is an ocean.
Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".
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"Parigi è come un oceano. Gettateci una sonda e non ne conoscerete mai la profondità.
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The Story of Music: A Chronicle of Resonance

The impulse began, as all things do, from a foundational state of near-silence.
Not a void, mind you. A state of potential.
A world teeming with vibration, but lacking organization.
Consider the cave: a resonating chamber.
Water dripping, wind sighing… these were the first notes.
Not "music" as we understand it, but precursors.
The potential for pattern was always present.

Orazio Gentileschi | Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), 1612 | Detroit Institute of Arts

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Mozart | Rondo alla Turca, 1783

The Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 / 300i, by Austrian classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is a piano sonata in three movements.
The sonata was published by Artaria in 1784, alongside Nos. 10 and 12 (K. 330 and K. 332).
The third movement of this sonata, the "Rondo alla Turca", or "Turkish March", is often heard on its own and regarded as one of Mozart's best-known piano pieces.


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Mozart: "A little night music", 1787

Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
The German title means "a little night music" and is one of Mozart's most famous works.
The serenade is written for an ensemble of two violins, viola, cello, and double bass, but it is often performed by string orchestras.


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Johann Sebastian Bach | The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846

The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846, is a keyboard composition written by German composer and musician of the late Baroque period Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750).
It is the first prelude and fugue in the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, a series of 48 preludes and fugues by the composer.
An early version of the prelude, BWV 846A, is found in the Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Francis Sydney Muschamp (British, 1851-1929) | A musical interlude

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Mozart | Concerto for Flute and Harp | 1 - Allegro

Mozart wrote the "Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra in C major" in April 1778, during his seven-month sojourn in Paris.
It was commissioned by Adrien-Louis de Bonnières, duc de Guînes (1735-1806), a flutist, for his use and for that of his eldest daughter, Marie-Louise-Philippine (1759-1796), a harpist, who was taking composition lessons from the composer, at the duke's home, the Hôtel de Castries.
Mozart stated in a letter to his father that he thought the duke played the flute "extremely well" and that Marie's playing of the harp was "magnifique".

Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) | Mozart child with a violin, 1887 | Musée Fabre

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Tomaso Albinoni | 12 Concerti a cinque (op. 9), 1722

12 Concerti a cinque (op. 9) is a collection of concertos by the Italian baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751), published in 1722.
The most famous piece from Albinoni's Opus 9 is the Concerto in D minor for oboe (Opus 9, Number 2).
It is known for its slow movement.

Leopold Pollak (1806-1880) |A little shepherd playing the oboe at the Claudia Aqueduct on the Roman Campagna", 1857

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Francesco Lavagna | The Neapolitan still life of the eighteenth century

Francesco Lavagna (Naples, 1684-1724) was an Italian still life painter who worked mainly in Naples.
Little is known about his biographical data and career, but he was first mentioned by B. De Dominici in the 18th century and has since been regarded as an important still life painter of the Neapolitan School.


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Angiolo Tommasi | The Emigrants /Gli Emigranti, 1986


Angelo Tommasi is a Naturalistic painter, influenced by Courbet’s realism, and played an active role spreading the technique employed by the Macchiaioli.
The monumental painting The Emigrants shows a common situation in Italy after the unification process.
The burning and dramatic theme of overseas emigration is vividly depicted by the packed crowds at the Port of Livorno, people who have resigned themselves to their fate and the expectation of embarkation. The painting's extraordinary dimensions contribute to an illustration of the theme of Italian emigration on an almost epic scale.

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Playing music in Baroque era

Baroque music refers to the period or dominant style of Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750.
The Baroque style followed the Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Classical period after a short transition (the galant style).
The Baroque period is divided into three major phases: early, middle, and late. Overlapping in time, they are conventionally dated from 1580 to 1650, from 1630 to 1700, and from 1680 to 1750.


Baroque music forms a major portion of the "classical music" canon, and is widely studied, performed, and listened to.
The term "baroque" comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning "misshapen pearl".

Key composers of the Baroque era include: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Georg Philipp Telemann, Domenico Scarlatti, Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Stradella, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arcangelo Corelli, François Couperin, Heinrich Schütz, Dieterich Buxtehude and Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.


The Baroque saw the formalization of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key; this type of harmony has continued to be used extensively in Western classical and popular music.
During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be accomplished improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts.


Baroque concerts were typically accompanied by a basso continuo group (comprising chord-playing instrumentalists such as harpsichordists and lute players improvising chords from a figured bass part) while a group of bass instruments—viol, cello, double bass—played the bassline.
A characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite.


While the pieces in a dance suite were inspired by actual dance music, dance suites were designed purely for listening, not for accompanying dancers.
During the period composers experimented with finding a fuller sound for each instrumental part (thus creating the orchestra), made changes in musical notation (the development of figured bass as a quick way to notate the chord progression of a song or piece), and developed new instrumental playing techniques.


Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres.
Dense, complex polyphonic music, in which multiple independent melody lines were performed simultaneously (a popular example of this is the fugue), was an important part of many Baroque choral and instrumental works.
Overall, Baroque music was a tool for expression and communication. | Source: © Wikipedia



Playing music in Baroque era | Johann Sebastian Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 565)


La musica barocca è un'epoca nella storia della musica colta occidentale che segue il Rinascimento e si estende dall'inizio del XVII fino a circa la metà del XVIII secolo.
Le caratteristiche tipiche di questa lunga ed eterogenea epoca musicale sono la rappresentazione degli affetti (l'assegnazione di tipi di rappresentazione musicale a stati d'animo specifici), lo stile concertato (l'interazione di gruppi sonori eterogenei) ed il basso continuo (le voci della melodia sono contrapposte a una voce di basso, che è notata con numeri per indicare gli accordi da suonare).

Per questo motivo è stato suggerito il termine “Era del direttore d’orchestra”.
Nel periodo barocco la musica strumentale si emancipò dalla musica vocale e diede origine anche all'orchestra nel suo senso moderno.

L'inizio del periodo barocco nella musica fu segnato intorno al 1600 dall'invenzione della monodia (canto solista o voce solista strumentale con accompagnamento) e dal nuovo genere dell'opera in Italia, il cui principale rappresentante fu Claudio Monteverdi.
Lo stile drammatico e carico di emozione fu trasferito alla musica strumentale da Girolamo Frescobaldi e adattato in Germania da Heinrich Schütz alle caratteristiche della lingua tedesca.


Dopo questa fase iniziale, intorno al 1640, ebbe inizio in Italia l'alto barocco, con un carattere più lirico e una maggiore fluidità formale, con Francesco Cavalli come compositore di opere, Giacomo Carissimi di oratori e poi Arcangelo Corelli con la musica per archi.

In Francia, uno stile barocco indipendente, in cui la danza rivestiva maggiore importanza, fu instaurato da Jean-Baptiste Lully, nelle cui opere, a differenza dello stile italiano, il contenuto espressivo del canto rimase contenuto.

In Inghilterra, Henry Purcell combina influenze italiane e francesi con la tradizione locale e le peculiarità della pronuncia inglese.


In Germania la scuola organistica della Germania settentrionale, importante anche per la musica vocale sacra, trovò in Dietrich Buxtehude un rappresentante di spicco.

Nel tardo barocco, a partire dal 1690 circa, la combinazione degli stili nazionali sviluppatisi nel periodo dell'alto barocco giocò un ruolo importante, in Francia con François Couperin, in Germania con Georg Philipp Telemann e in Inghilterra con Georg Friedrich Händel.
La tensione tra i rapporti tonali viene ora utilizzata per sviluppare forme più ampie, come nella forma ritornello (con una parte ricorrente chiamata ritornello) di Antonio Vivaldi.

Un cambiamento di stile con melodie più dettagliate e una riduzione della polifonia (più voci indipendenti) iniziò negli anni Venti del Settecento, inizialmente nell'opera italiana, ad esempio con Leonardo Vinci e Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
Jean-Philippe Rameau presentò la prima teoria dell'armonia (la teoria della successione di armonie di più toni).

Anche Domenico Scarlatti, compositore di sonate per clavicembalo attivo in Spagna, divenne un precursore del periodo classico, rompendo la continuità barocca, mentre allo stesso tempo la densità strutturale di Johann Sebastian Bach, che servì da modello per i compositori del periodo classico, funge da contrappunto.

L'anno della morte di Bach, il 1750, è spesso utilizzato come punto di fine di un'epoca.
La musica barocca serviva principalmente a rappresentare la nobiltà e la chiesa.

I musicisti erano organizzati in forma di corporazione oppure avevano un impiego fisso.
La tipologia dell'imprenditore musicale inizia a farsi notare solo a metà del XVIII secolo, in un'attività musicale in cui la borghesia è sempre più coinvolta.


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Le Quattro Stagioni | I Concerti ed i Sonetti di Antonio Vivaldi

Le Quattro Stagioni è un gruppo di quattro concerti per violino del compositore italiano Antonio Vivaldi (Compositore e violinista Barocco, 1678-1741), ognuno dei quali dà espressione musicale ad una stagione dell'anno.
Furono composti intorno al 1718-1720, quando Vivaldi era maestro di cappella alla corte di Mantova.
Furono pubblicati nel 1725 ad Amsterdam, in quella che all'epoca era la Repubblica delle Sette Province Unite, insieme ad altri otto concerti, con il titolo Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'invenzione.

Un ritratto anonimo ad olio conservato al Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna, generalmente ritenuto di Vivaldi, 1723

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Antonio Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" | Music and Sonnets

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
These were composed around 1718-1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua.
They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam in what was at the time the Dutch Republic, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).

Orazio Gentileschi | Young Woman with a Violin (Saint Cecilia), 1612 | Detroit Institute of Arts

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Luigi Pirandello | Maschere e volti / Masks and faces

Luigi Pirandello (28 giugno 1867 - 10 dicembre 1936) è stato un drammaturgo, romanziere, poeta e scrittore di racconti Italiano i cui maggiori contributi furono le sue opere teatrali.
Gli fu conferito il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nel 1934 "per la sua audace ed ingegnosa rinascita dell'arte drammatica e scenica".
Le opere di Pirandello includono romanzi, centinaia di racconti e circa 40 opere teatrali, alcune delle quali sono scritte in siciliano.
Le farse tragiche di Pirandello sono spesso viste come precursori del Teatro dell'Assurdo.

Luigi Pirandello | Maschere e volti

Imparerai a tue spese
che lungo il tuo cammino
incontrerai ogni giorno
milioni di maschere
e pochissimi volti.

Pietro Longhi (Venice, 1701-1785) | Il Ridotto | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Gli articoli pubblicati da Tutt'Art@ durante il 2024

Questa raccolta inizia con l'ultimo articolo del 2024: "When was it decided that January 1st is the new year?" / "Quando è stato deciso che il 1° gennaio diventasse il primo giorno dell'anno?", pubblicato il 31 Dicembre 2024 e finisce con l'articolo dedicato al pittore impressionista Olandese René Jansen (1956-2022).

When was it decided that January 1st is the new year? 2024-12-31
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Vincent Van Gogh | Butterflies series2024-12-28

José Luis Corella, 1959 | Classical realism painter