- "Contemplation, harmony, proportion, stillness; this is the invisible thread that weave my aspiration" - Antonio Calderara
Self-taught as a child growing up in Milan, and later mentored for a time by a young Lucio Fontana, the earliest influences of Antonio Calderara (1903-1978) were of the figuration and light effects of Piero della Francesca, Seurat and the Milanese Novecento painters.
After abandoning his university studies in engineering in 1925 the young man dedicated himself fully to experimenting with colour and form.
Forte ed ambiziosa, Gabrielle Coco Chanel (1883-1971), sovvertì la moda femminile costretta all’interno di rigidi schemi sociali, rivoluzionò il concetto di femminilità, imponendosi come figura fondamentale del fashion design e della cultura popolare del XX secolo.
Chanel non faceva parte della aristocrazia parigina, né dell’alta borghesia, ma riuscì a rendere à la page gli abiti delle sartine e delle commesse anche tra le ricche signore di Deauville.
"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Shampoo Scene in "Out of Africa"
• "I believe that the moment is near when by a procedure of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematize confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality".
• "If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it".
• "We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art".
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
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
The Republic (Greek: Πολιτεία, Politeia) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just city-state and the just man ecc..
It is Plato's best-known work, and one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory, both intellectually and historically.
In the dialogue, Socrates discusses with various Athenians and foreigners the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man.
He considers the natures of existing regimes and then proposes a series of hypothetical cities in comparison, culminating in Kallipolis (Καλλίπολις), a utopian city-state ruled by a class of philosopher-kings.
Raffaello | Scuola di Atene - Platone / Raphael - The School of Athens (1509-1511)
