Paolo Fiammingo | Mannerist painter

Pauwels Franck - known in Italy as Paolo Fiammingo and Paolo dei Franceschi (1540-1596), was a Flemish painter, mainly of landscapes with mythological and religious scenes, who was active in Venice for most of his life.

He was likely born c. 1540 but his birthplace is not known. He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1561.

He is recorded in Venice from 1573 but was likely an assistant in Tintoretto’s workshop there already in the 1560s.

He worked in Venice for the rest of his career.

Allegory of Music

The "Allegory of Music" is a classic artistic theme used to personify the beauty, harmony, and theory of sound.

Historically, these artworks often feature a female figure (sometimes a Muse like Euterpe or Polyhymnia) surrounded by various instruments, sheet music, and symbolic animals.

Historically, it is often depicted as one of the Seven Liberal Arts, representing the mathematical and harmonic ratios that govern the universe.

The theme remains relevant today; for instance, modern songwriters use allegory in lyrics to convey deep moral lessons or complex emotions through surface-level stories.

Francesco Trevisani (Italian Rococo Era painter, 1656-1746) | An allegory of music

Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions.

And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.

The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away.

The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.

Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston, 1970 | Prima parte

Richard Bach: "Al vero Gabbiano Jonathan che vive nel profondo di tutti noi!"

"Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston" (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) è un celebre romanzo breve di Richard Bach (1936).

Best seller in molti paesi del mondo negli anni settanta, diventato per molti un vero e proprio cult, Jonathan Livingston è essenzialmente una fiaba a contenuto morale e spirituale.

La metafora principale del libro, ovvero il percorso di autoperfezionamento del gabbiano che impara a volare/vivere attraverso l'abnegazione, ricordando il periodo del Rinascimento, il sacrificio e la gioia di farlo è stata letta da diverse generazioni secondo diverse prospettive ideologiche, dal cattolicesimo al pensiero positivo, l'anarchismo cristiano e la New Age.

Giorgio Conta, 1978 | Figurative sculptor

Italian artist Giorgio Conta was born in Cles and lives and works in Monclassico in Val di Sole (TN).

He grew up in an artistic environment where, being his father a well known artist, he came into contact with various personalities from the art and culture world, including the great pianist Arturo Benedetti Michel-angeli, close friend of the family, who expressed the wish to be his Godfather.

After having earned his high-school diploma he attended a sculpture school devoting himself to painting and drawing as well.

Giorgio Vasari: "Vita di Sandro Botticello - Pittor Fiorentino"

Ne’ medesimi tempi del Magnifico Lorenzo Vecchio de’ Medici, che fu veramente per le persone d’ingegno un secol d’oro, fiorì ancora Alessandro, chiamato a l’uso nostro Sandro e detto di Botticello per la cagione che appresso vedremo.

Costui fu figliuolo di Mariano Filipepi, cittadino fiorentino dal quale diligentemente allevato e fatto instruire in tutte quelle cose che usanza è di insegnarsi a’ fanciulli in quella età, prima che e’ si ponghino a le botteghe, ancora che agevolmente apprendesse tutto quello che e’ voleva, era nientedimanco inquieto sempre; né si contentava di scuola alcuna, di leggere, di scrivere o di abbaco; di maniera che il padre infastidito di questo cervello sì stravagante, per disperato lo pose a lo orefice con un suo compare chiamato Botticello, assai competente maestro allora in quell’arte.

Lilliana Comes | Magic realism painter

Daughter of an artist -her father was a sculptor, painter-, Lilliana Comes graduates from Istituto d’Arte di Napoli “Filippo Palizzi”, where she studies under sculptor Lelio Gelli and painter Enrico Cajati.

She has her works displayed in many exhibitions, both individual and collective, in places such as Copenaghen, Berlin, Bern, London, New York, and at the International Boat Show of Qingdao (China) with the Mediterranean series.

History of Poetry

Poetry is one of the oldest forms of human expression, predating literacy and evolving from oral traditions used to preserve history, genealogy and law.

The word "poet" originates from the Greek poiētēs, meaning "maker".

The Echo in the Cave

The first voice wasn't a voice at all, not really.

It was a rhythm.

In the dim coolness of a limestone cave, millennia ago, Elara, a woman of the Clan of the Whispering Winds, beat a steady pulse on a stretched animal skin.

Enheduanna's head - celebrated as the earliest known named Author in world history | Morgan Library / The Penn Museum