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

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

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.

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.

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.

Paris painting

"Paris is an ocean.

Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".

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Honoré de Balzac

"Parigi è come un oceano. Gettateci una sonda e non ne conoscerete mai la profondità.

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Honoré de Balzac

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

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.