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.