Giovanni Battista Moroni | Mannerist painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/4-1579) is one of the most famous North Italian portrait specialists of the 16th century.

He was a native of Albino, near Bergamo.

In his early years he worked in Brescia and at Trent (1551-2).

Later altarpieces and portraits were painted for clients in and around Bergamo and Albino, where he settled in 1561.

His portraits have great psychological penetration, which owes less to his master and more to the Venetian tradition of portraiture as it had been evolved by Giorgione and Titian. | Source: © The National Gallery, London

Konstantinos Kavafis | La Città / Η Πόλις / The City

Hai detto: "Andrò per altra terra ed altro mare.

Una città migliore di questa ci sarà.

Tutti gli sforzi sono condanna scritta. E qua

giace sepolto, come un morto, il cuore.

E fino a quando, in questo desolato languore?

Pavlos Samios / Παύλος Σάμιος (1948-2021)

Leonardo da Vinci | Del dare i lumi..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 744-759

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

744. Regola del porre le debite ombre e i debiti lumi ad una figura, ovvero corpo laterato.

745. Regola del porre le vere chiarezze de' lumi sopra i lati del predetto corpo.

746. Perché pare piú chiaro il campo illuminato intorno all'ombra derivativa stando in casa che in campagna.

747. Del dare i lumi.

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist.

In 1882 the sculptor Auguste Rodin agreed to supervise a small group of young women students, one of whom was the seventeen-year-old Camille Claudel.

Auguste and Camille fell in love almost at first sight.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Umbrellas, 1881-1886

Renoir's 'Umbrellas' shows a bustling Paris street in the rain.

The composition of the painting does not focus on the centre of the picture which is a tangle of hands. It even cuts of figures at either edge like a photographic snapshot.

This kind of unconventional arrangement was something that several of the Impressionists, including Renoir and Degas, enjoyed experimenting with.

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