Charles Baudelaire / Pino Daeni | Hymn to Beauty, 1861

From heaven or hell, O Beauty, come you hence?

Out from your gaze, infernal and divine,

Pours blended evil and beneficence,

And therefore men have likened you to wine.

Ada Negri | Autumn rain's soothing melody, 1936

Tonight I heard, between waking and

slumber, a song

soft, hushed, and yet vast just as

the world is vast; and I seemed in sleep

to be sailing on a boat with no oars

on grey seas, inside a blanket of rain.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Belle Époque painter

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (October 4, 1859 - November 8, 1933) was a celebrated Italian Realist painter and portraitist.

Renowned as the definitive painter of the Belle Époque, Corcos became famous for his highly refined, realistic portraits of European nobility, monarchs, and the upper-middle class bourgeois.

He was particularly unmatched in capturing the essence, psychology, and evolving independence of women during the turn of the 20th century.

L'arte Espressionista / Neorealista di Renzo Vespignani

Vespignani, Renzo (propr. Lorenzo) - Pittore ed incisore Italiano (Roma 1924 - ivi 2001).

Formatosi da autodidatta, esordì nel 1945 a Roma con scene di vita e paesaggi urbani di impronta neorealista.

Nel secondo dopoguerra, dopo i soggiorni a Berlino ed a Parigi, fu tra i promotori della rivista Città aperta (1956) e collaborò con scritti e incisioni a varî periodici.

Giacomo Leopardi | Night-song of a wandering shepherd of Asia, 1829-1830

Around the end of 1829 or the first months of 1830, Giacomo Leopardi composed the Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia / Night-time chant of a wandering Asian sheep-herder.

In writing this piece, Leopardi drew inspiration from the reading of Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara fait en 1820, by the Russian baron Meyendorff, in which the baron tells of how certain sheep-herders of central Asia belonging to the Kirghiz population practiced a sort of ritual chant consisting of long and sweet strophes directed at the full moon.

Samuel Palmer | Cornfield by Moonlight, with the evening star, 1830 | British Museum

Mariangela Gualtieri | Salute a te Umanità ferita!

Salute a te umanità ferita

umanità uscita dalla pietra

e arrivata fin qui.

Randolph Rogers | Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1859 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ottorino De Lucchi, 1951 | Hyperrealist painter

Ottorino De Lucchi is an acclaimed Italian contemporary painter and chemist known for his hyperrealistic still life paintings.

Born in Ferrara, Italy, he has uniquely bridged the gap between analytical science and fine art.

De Lucchi is widely celebrated for his mastery of the drybrush (dry watercolor) technique.

While traveling in the United States, he was inspired by the texturing and detail in the work of American master Andrew Wyeth.

Eliseu Visconti | Impressionist / Art Nouveau painter

Eliseu Visconti (born Eliseo d'Angelo; July 30, 1866 – October 15, 1944) was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, designer, and educator widely celebrated for introducing Impressionism and Art Nouveau to Brazil.

Spanning a highly transitional era between academic traditions and early modernism, he remains one of the most versatile and influential visual artists in Brazilian history.

He entered in 1884 the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles.

Caravaggio: "Amor Vincit Omnia / Love conquers all!"

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) ha lasciato pochissimi scritti, poiché prediligeva lavorare direttamente sulla tela senza schizzi preparatori e ha vissuto una vita notoriamente tumultuosa, spesso in fuga.

La maggior parte di ciò che sappiamo della sua filosofia proviene da verbali legali e dichiarazioni dei suoi contemporanei.

👉 "Prendo in prestito dei corpi e degli oggetti, li dipingo per ricordare a me stesso la magia dell'equilibrio che regola l'universo tutto. In questa magia l'anima mia risuona dell'Unico Suono che mi riporta a Dio".

👉 "I borrow bodies and objects, I paint them to remind myself of the magic of balance that governs the entire universe. In this magic, my soul resonates with the Only Sound that brings me back to God".

L'Impressionismo romantico di Pino (Giuseppe Dangelico)

Giuseppe Dangelico (1939-2010), noto universalmente con lo pseudonimo di Pino (o Pino Daeni), è stato un celebre pittore ed illustratore Italiano naturalizzato statunitense, considerato uno dei più grandi maestri dell'arte figurativa e della copertina editoriale del XX secolo.

Nato a Bari l'8 novembre 1939, è scomparso nel New Jersey il 25 maggio 2010.

È celebre per lo stile unico che unisce un realismo romantico a pennellate fluide ed impressioniste, focalizzandosi prevalentemente sulla bellezza femminile, l'intimità domestica e la nostalgia.

Francesco Gioli | Macchiaioli painter

Francesco Gioli (June 29, 1846 - February 4, 1922) was a prominent Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli movement and Tuscan Naturalism.

Born into a wealthy family in San Frediano a Settimo (Pisa), he became celebrated for his elegant depictions of rural Tuscan life, atmospheric landscapes and intimate portraits.

Gioli initially trained under academic masters like Antonio Ciseri and Enrico Pollastrini, starting his career with traditional historical paintings.

Alfonso Gatto | Il bacio che cerco è l'anima / The kiss I seek is the soul

Le grandi notti d'estate

che nulla muove oltre il chiaro

filtro dei baci, il tuo volto

un sogno nelle mie mani.

Maria Amaral

Maria Serafina, 1955 | Impressionist / Romantic painter

Maria Serafina Tribunella is an American of Sicilian origin (born in Collesano, Palermo); raised and educated in New York City.

After receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University, she married and moved to the home of her ancestors, Italy.

It is there shat she now resides making her living as an accomplished painter alongside her husband, the Neapolitian artist, Raimondi Roberti.

The return to her native land has proved to be very important in the development of her artistic work.

There is a very strong influence of The Grand Tour heritage of Southern Italy that is nostalgically rendered in her paintings.

Farewell to Sergio Cerchi (1957-2026), the Artist of "Quadrantism"!

Italian artist Sergio Cerchi (1957-2026) was born in Florence, where he lived and worked all his lifem.

Sergio Cerchi worked in what could be defined as the quadrantism painting style.

The artist passed away on July 17, 2026.

He was educated at the Art Institute d'Arte di Porta Romana and studied at the Cherubim Conservatory courses.

From childhood, Sergio Cerci was "torn" between music and the visual arts: two indivisible passions cultivated with tenacity and determination, forcing him to simultaneously attend the workshops of local artists and play in various musical groups.

He began painting at the age of 15, trying different techniques and approaches before his personal style matured.

Sabrina Garrasi | Abstract painter

Italian illustrator Sabrina Garrasi based in Pesaro, Italy, known for her abstract paintings and whimsical fashion illustrations.

Her work balances material texture and ethereal concepts, focusing on themes like memory, space, time and femininity.

She divides her professional time working between Italy and Switzerland.

She frequently combines acrylics, watercolor, gouache, pure pigments, and pencil on premium cotton and fine art paper.

Guido Daniele, 1950 | Hand / Body painting

Guido Daniele, born in Soverato (Italy) and now lives and works in Milan, is renowned for his unique and innovative approach to painting.

He graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) and he has been painting and participating in personal and group art exhibitions since 1968.

In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.

Le Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milano

Situato nel cuore di Milano, il complesso espositivo Gallerie di Piazza Scala propone un viaggio affascinante nell'arte del XIX e XX secolo.

Il polo museale si snoda attraverso quattro edifici storici della città.

Negli storici Palazzo Anguissola e Palazzo Brentani sono esposti 197 dipinti e sculture che partono da bassorilievi neoclassici di Antonio Canova, per toccare quindi le altre correnti che hanno caratterizzato le arti figurative italiane ottocentesche:

Ferrari Arturo - Via San Bernardino in Milano

Pier Paolo Pasolini | Expressionist painter

Considerato tra i maggiori intellettuali Italiani del Novecento, culturalmente versatile, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) si distinse in numerosi campi, lasciando contributi come pittore, romanziere, linguista, traduttore e saggista.

Pasolini è stato un pittore prolifico ed appassionato, un aspetto della sua produzione artistica che ha affiancato la poesia, la letteratura ed il cinema per tutta la vita.

Questa attività, a lungo considerata secondaria dalla critica, rappresenta in realtà una chiave d'accesso fondamentale per comprendere la sua intera estetica visiva.

Pasolini amò visceralmente la pittura.

Tranquillo Cremona | Romantic painter

Tranquillo Cremona (10 April 1837 - 10 June 1878) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Pavia and was the brother of the mathematician Luigi Cremona.

He trained as a young man with Giovanni Carnovali. He lived in Venice from 1852-1859.

Cremona moved to Milan and he became part of the Scapigliatura movement which was characterized by bohemian attitudes and included poets, writers, musicians and artists infused with a combination of rebellious, and later anti-academic and anarchic, tendencies.

Cristoforo Stati | Orpheus with Violin, 1600-1601

Orpheus by Italian sculptor Cristoforo Stati / Cristofano da Bracciano (1556-1619), famous for taming beasts with his music, is here shown entertaining himself, his body swaying to the sound of the lira da braccio.

The statue was carved for the Palazzo Corsi, Florence. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art