Gustave Caillebotte | Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877

This complex intersection, just minutes away from the Saint-Lazare train station, represents in microcosm the changing urban milieu of late nineteenth-century Paris.

Gustave Caillebotte grew up near this district when it was a relatively unsettled hill with narrow, crooked streets.

As part of a new city plan designed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, these streets were relaid and their buildings razed during the artist’s lifetime.

In this monumental urban view, which measures almost seven by ten feet and is considered the artist’s masterpiece, Caillebotte strikingly captured a vast, stark modernity, complete with life-size figures strolling in the foreground and wearing the latest fashions.

William Turner | Romantic painter

J.M.W. Turner, in full Joseph Mallord William Turner, (born April 23, 1775, London, England - died December 19, 1851, London), English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity.

Turner was perhaps the greatest landscapist of the 19th century.

Although brought up in the academic traditions of the 18th century, he became a pioneer in the study of light, colour, and atmosphere.

Venice in the 19th-Century paintings

Friedrich Nerly🎨 (German painter, 1842–1919) Piazza San Marco in Venedig bei Mondlicht, 1871

A Visit to Venice

by Ivan Sergeevič Turgenev - Novel "On the Eve", 1860

"Whoever has not seen Venice in the month of April will find it hard to picture to himself the indescribable charm of this fairy city. The softness and mildness of spring are to Venice, what the bright summer sun is to glorious Genoa, or what the purple golden autumn is to ancient Rome.

Like spring, the beauty of Venice excites and arouses our softest desires; it animates and stirs the unspoiled heart like the promise of some near, undefined, mysterious pleasure".

Marco Ortolan, 1973

Marco Ortolan - "Drawing is the fundamental basis of my painting, it is what keeps it afloat. I pay particular attention to composition and light. Our role as an artist is to awaken the spirit and sensitivity of the viewer as art is linked to the spirit".

Marco Ortolan was born in Arquitecto, Argentina.

Since 1985 he trained in the plastic arts at the Miguel Perez Macias Academy where he developed Drawing and Painting with references to the Italian Renaissance and French Impressionism.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Venice / Venezia

Luca Carlevarijs (Italian painter, 1663-1730) | View of the Molo Venice looking west

Venice

By the bridge I stood

recently in the brown night.

From the distance came the sound of song;

golden drops surged away

over the vibrating surface.

Venezia

Stavo sul ponte,

poco tempo fa, nella notte bruna.

Di lontano giungeva un canto:

gocce d’oro affioravano

sulla superficie vibrante.