Leonardo da Vinci | De' movimenti dell'uomo e proporzione di membra..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte terza | Capitoli 259-286

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

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259. Delle mutazioni delle misure dell'uomo pel movimento delle membra a diversi aspetti.

260. Delle mutazioni delle misure dell'uomo dal nascimento al suo ultimo crescimento.

261. Come i puttini hanno le giunture contrarie agli uomini nelle loro grossezze.

262. Delle differenti misure che v'hanno fra i putti e gli uomini.

263. Delle giunture delle dita.

264. Delle giunture delle spalle, e loro accrescimenti e diminuzioni.

265. Delle spalle.

266. Delle misure universali de' corpi.

267. Delle misure del corpo umano e piegamenti di membra.

268. Della proporzionalità delle membra.

269. Della giuntura della mano col braccio.

Loggia dei Lanzi, 1380 | Open-air museum in Florence

In the Piazza della Signoria, adjoining the Uffizi Palace, there is a masterpiece of Medieval architecture: the Loggia della Signoria, built in about 1380, to host public ceremonies and assemblies, during the republican period.

It is called Loggia dei Lanzi, because it is said that landsknechts (lanzichenecchi or lanzi in Italian) encamped here in 1527, while they were going to Rome.

According to another version, landsknechts - who were German mercenary soldiers - formed the guard of the Duke Alessandro de’ Medici and they stayed in the loggia to occupy an important and symbolic place for the republic, that was dead.

The Loggia is also called "dell'Orcagna", because it was once thought that Andrea di Cione, called the Orcagna, built it: actually his brother Benci with Simone Talenti made it. Maybe Orcagna worked on the project of the building.

Built during the 14th century, the loggia is a Gothic style building, but its three big rounded arches paved the way to the great Renaissance architecture: it seems that Brunelleschi took inspiration for his Spedale degli Innocenti from it. During the 16th century, the Loggia lose its original function and became an open air museum.

It hosts some ancient Roman sculptures and some masterpieces from the 16th century:

The Perseus with the Head of Medusa | Benvenuto Cellini - On the far left there is Perseus, a magnificent bronze statue by Benvenuto Cellini, commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici and placed here in 1554.

Donatello | The marble David, 1409

Donatello*, in his early twenties, was commissioned to carve a statue of David in 1408, to top one of the buttresses of Florence Cathedral, though it was never to be placed there. Nanni di Banco was commissioned to carve a marble statue of Isaiah, at the same scale, in the same year.

Tarcsay Bela, 1952 | Abstract painter

Béla Tarcsay was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. He lives in Szeged since 2000.

He is dealing with fine arts since 1994.

He intends to show in his paintings his love of nature.

He got his knowledge in fine arts in a self-educated manner. Beside oil paintings he makes attempts at graphics and pastel technique.

Willem Haenraets / William Shakespeare | Romantic Rhythm

Il mio occhio s'è fatto pittore ed ha tracciato

L'immagine tua bella sul quadro del mio cuore;

il mio corpo è cornice in cui è racchiusa,

Prospettica, eccellente arte pittorica,

Ché attraverso il pittore devi vederne l'arte

Per trovar dove sia la tua autentica immagine dipinta,

Tenaya Sims | Figurative painter

Tenaya Sims received a BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After working several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision, he began his classical studies at the Jeff Watts🎨 Atelier in Encinitas, CA.

He then moved to Seattle where he has completed four years of full-time study in the Gage Classical Atelier.

Rosso Fiorentino | Mannerist painter

Italian painter and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.

Pontormo | Portrait of Maria Salviati, 1543-1544

Portrait of Maria Salviati is an oil on panel painting attributed to Pontormo, executed c. 1543-1544, in the Uffizi, Florence.

It was acquired by the Uffizi early in the 20th century as a work by Domenico Beccafumi.

Soon afterwards Lányi identified it as a portrait of Cosimo I's mother Maria Salviati by Pontormo mentioned in Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari.

Jacopo Pontormo | Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici, 1543-1544 | Uffizi, Florence

Vitaly Tikhov | Social realist painter

Тихов Виталий Гаврилович (1876-1939) was an Ukrainian painter, one of the best and most talented students in Vladimir Makovsky's studio.

In the early 1910s his magnificent, large-format "bath-house" paintings were especially successful and much admired, and for these he was twice awarded the graduation Gold Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, having studied there on two separate occasions.

Cesare Augusto Detti | Belle Époque painter

A painter from Spoleto who moved to Paris during the Belle Epoque, Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) was an Italian artist, best known for his historical genre paintings in the nineteenth century.

Some of his works are included in the collections of the Uffizi and Galleria Borghese of Rome.

His father, Davide Detti, was an engineer and an amateur painter. As a result, his early interest in art was encouraged.

In 1861, he made the acquaintance of Francesco Coghetti, a painter from Rome who was creating murals at the Teatro Nuovo (now known as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti).

Janet Hill | Fashion painter

Janet Hill, Canadian painter, discovered her passion for painting as a teenager. Janet’s work is both elegant, yet whimsical, often with an underlying narrative that instantly captures the imagination. Her painting style evokes a sense of nostalgia, timeless beauty, mystery, humour and comfort.

Tomek Sętowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter

Once upon a time, a long time ago in the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic Highland Chain (Polish: Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) Tomek Sętowski was born.

Extraordinary sensitivity that characterized him as a little boy could be seen as soon as he was only three years old when his first painting was created.

A young dreamer had been developing his painting techniques for years, taking giant steps from local galleries to the top-rank exhibitions salons, and, at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Częstochowa Pedagogical University he gained knowledge of the history of art.

David FeBland, 1949 | Cityscape painter

David FeBland is an internationally recognized British artist known for contemporary figurative oil paintings and expressionist urban landscapes.

He has presented 52 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in the US, Europe and Asia.

James R. Eads, 1989 | The New-Age Van Gogh

James R. Eads was born in Los Angeles, he went to college at Skidmore in upstate New York and then lived in Brooklyn for a few years before relocating to Los Angeles.

He lives and works at the Brewery Arts in Los Angeles.

His studio is open to the public during the bi-annual artwalks.

Despite his modern method, it’s easy to see traces of past painters and movements in his pieces.

Van Gogh is an obvious inspiration, though there are nuances of numerous other impressionist artists’ styles in each and every piece.

Tyson Snow, 1977 | Figurative Sculptor /painter

Award winning artist Tyson Snow has always had a passion for fine art and a desire for an outlet where he could create work that was powerful, personal and beautiful.

Tyson has worked tirelessly to improve that idea and has since found the pathway to success.

Tyson has focused on fine art for more than 10 years.

Igor Goncharov / Игорь Гончаров, 1959 | Figurative painter

Russian artist Игорь Гончаров graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture in 1984. Since 1991, he has successfully held his solo exhibitions in Moscow, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York and other cities around the world.

He currently lives and works in Siberian environmental settlement "Dwelling of Dawn" Krasnoyarsk Krai (foothills of Sayan).

Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин | Abstract Figurative painter

Ukrainian-born painter Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин was born in Odessa, one of the main cultural centers of the coasts of the Black Sea and the former Soviet Union.

From an early age she studied the basic principles of Visual Art at Odessa Art School.

In 1978 she graduated from Odessa Pedagogical University, majoring in Fine Art and Graphics.

Since 1989 worked in Greece.

Her works are found in many galleries and private collections.

Khalil Gibran | Sulla libertà / Freedom

Alle porte della città e presso il focolare vi ho veduto, prostrati, adorare la vostra libertà,

Così come gli schiavi si umiliano in lodi davanti al tiranno che li uccide.

Sì, al bosco sacro e all'ombra della rocca ho visto che per il più libero di voi la libertà non era che schiavitù e oppressione.

Bellor 1911-2000 | Belgian Symbolist painter

Pablo Picasso | Cubist painter / sculptor

The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)🎨 has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude.

His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social and amorous messages.

Christian Della Giustina, 1959 | Sculptor and 3D painter

Born in Gonesse-France and of Italian origin (from Venice), Christian Della Giustina grew up in an artistic atmosphere.

He makes masterpieces in bronze.

His coloured patinas catch the light and touch the emotion.

To reinvent and model life, to transform it with his sensitivity and emotions: that is Christian Della Giustina's aspiration.

He uses small formats for his work, a human dimension.

Jeffrey Randolph Richter

Jeffrey Randolph Richter: While I have been interested in art for as long as I can remember, I did not have a chance to begin developing my talent until my third year of high school. It was in this class that I gained experience with drawing and painting mediums.

I began attending East Central College in Union, MO, in the fall of 1999. While there I was able to expand my skills through a wide variety of classes, including drawing, painting, printmaking, figure drawing, design, and business of art.

Caravaggio | The crowning with thorns, 1607

Title: The Crowning with Thorns;

Painted by: Caravaggio;

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria;

Dimensions: 64.96 inch wide x 50.00 inch high;

The Vienna Crowning with Thorns is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Executed probably in 1607, it is now located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

According to Caravaggio's biographer Giovanni Bellori a Crowning with Thorns was made for Caravaggio's patron Vincenzo Giustiniani, and this painting can be traced convincingly to the Giustiniani collection.

Oksana Yambykh, 1966 | Surrealist painter

Oksana Yambykh / Оксана Ямбых is a French painter🎨 of Ukrainian origin, born in Poltava.

After her art studies in Ukraine, Oksana came to France at the age of 26.

She joined at first Art’partage, then the Figuration Critique in 2005. She joined the Narro group in 2007, her career went international and she today she shows her work regularly in Paris and in Europe.

Natalia Tour /Наталья Тур, 1972 | Figurative painter

Наталья Тур, pittrice Russa, si è diplomata al Liceo Artistico Serov a San Pietroburgo, e poi ha ricevuto un diploma della San Pietroburgo Accademia di Belle Arti nella classe di pittura. Dal 1999, Natalia ha partecipato in numerose mostre internazionali. Espone regolarmente in Francia, Parigi, Strasburgo, Cote d'Azur. Dal 2006 è stata l'attività espositiva attiva a Mosca. Le sue opere si trovano in collezioni private in Russia, Francia, Gran Bretagna, Paesi Bassi e Stati Uniti. Membro dell'Unione degli artisti russi.

Joadoor | Conceptual Neo-Classical painters

The artist name Joadoor labels the work of two Dutch painters, Ger Doornink and Hans-Jochem Bakker. Both men are conceptual artists, painters and photographers. Their work is characterized by Neo-Classical style that covers works of various themes.

Christine Comyn, 1957

Christine Comyn was born in Tielt, Belgium.

She studied at the St. Luke Academy in Ghent, Belgium, and later on at the Pedagogic Institute for Promotion, also in Ghent with the intention of becoming an educator.

As a result of the sold out status of her watercolors at the first solo exhibition, she began in 1989 to commit her time solely to producing the abstract watercolors that literally sold as quickly as she could paint them.

Kevin Sloan | Magic realism painter

Kevin Sloan is a Denver-based painter working primarily with acrylic on canvas, drawings and paintings on paper, and mixed media sculpture.

Growing up in Des Moines, Iowa, his early interest in art was nurtured by student classes at the Des Moines Art Center.

It was clear upon high school graduation that he would continue to study art in college.

Diane Leonard | Impressionist painter

Diane Leonard is an award winning artist, and one of America’s most highly respected contemporary impressionists.

A self-taught artist, Diane began painting in her early twenties while she lived in Boston.

She has enjoyed great success with her artwork, including numerous One-Woman Shows here in the U.S. and Japan.

She has studied with two renowned painters, Bettina Steinke and Helen Van Wyk.

Andrius Kovelinas,1958

Andrius Kovelinas è da molti anni in prima linea nel panorama dell'arte contemporanea internazionale.

Più recentemente ha vinto l'ambito secondo premio alla più prestigiosa biennale dell'Accademia d'Arte Anglo-Italiana al Museo d'Arte di Chianciano, in Italia, con il suo dipinto 'Red Dance'. Vive in Irlanda da quasi 10 anni.

Abdalieva Akzhan,1975 | VideoArt

Abdalieva Akzhan /Aбдалиева Aкжана is an painter from Alma-Ta, Kazakhstan, known for working in the Figurative style. For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works see Abdalieva Akzhan ~ Figurative painter

Charles Bukowski | Che cosa diranno i vicini?

I miei genitori erano sempre dietro a

chiederlo,

naturalmente non mi importava un fico di

che cosa diranno i vicini.

mi facevano pena i vicini,

codardi che spiavano da dietro le

tendine.

Waldemar J. Marszałek

Salustiano Garcia Cruz, 1965

Spanish painter Salustiano García Cruz graduated from the University of Seville.

The paintings of this artist are red or white pictures in a pure concept of Renaissance style, transmitting calm through a detailed study of form and a clear brush stroke.

The characters are lone busts and faces over an empty and monochrome space, appearing like in dreams where everything turns red.

Loui Jover, 1967 | Abstract /Surrealist painter

Loui Jover is an Australian based painter with a unique style of art. He basically uses ink on pages from vintage books to create eye-catching and emotionally charged images of women’s faces. His images also incorporate couples in intensely emotional states. His works have been hailed as truly creative and emotional. As an avid artist who draws every single day creating books of cartoons and drawings, Loui has travelled extensively all over Europe and Asia.

Nefertiti, la Dea dell'Egitto

Il pezzo più pregiato della collezione di reperti archeologici egizi è senza dubbio il busto della regina Nefertiti.
C'è chi afferma che valga da solo un viaggio a Berlino.

Nefertiti, che per gli egiziani "la bella che è arrivata", identifica la regina egiziana (XIV secolo a.C.), sposa di Amenophis IV (Akhenaton, 1364-1347 a.C.).

Non si limitò ad interpretare il ruolo di grande sposa reale, poiché il faraone l’aveva coinvolta nella gestione del potere, e la sua influenza sulla guida politica del regno fu notevolissima.

Arthur Braginsky, 1965 | Abstract | Figurative painter

Arthur Braginsky is an award-winning artist based in Hungary whose paintings have been exhibited nationally, as well as in France, Austria, Russia, Belgium.

In 1982 graduated from Mukachevo art school.

Later studied in Lviv I.

Fedorov polygraphic Institute.

Since 1987 to 1989 has been working as a lights artist in regional philharmonic (Uzhgorod), later – in Russian dramatic theater as a decorator (properties artist).

Since 1994 till now he takes part in international planners in Hungary and in Ukraine.

Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962

William Merritt Chase | Impressionist painter

Born in Indiana, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) showed artistic talent as a young boy.

His family arranged for him to begin formal training in art at the age of eighteen with a local portrait painter in Indianapolis.

In 1869 Chase went to New York, where for two years he was a student at the National Academy of Design.

Ippolito Caffi | View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1843-1857

Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) modernized the veduta vocabulary inherited from Canaletto, selecting new points of view, and he showed an interest in nocturnal scenes with artificial or lunar illumination, in recording the effects of light and atmosphere at particular times, and in chronicling unusual events such as eclipses and balloon flights.

His most famous work, the Last Hour of Carnevale in Rome (The Candles) (1837; Venice, Ca' Pesaro), displays the originality of his style.

Hans Zatzka | Water Lilies

Austrian painter with an academic style, Hans Zatzka (1859-1945) is also known under the pseudonyms of Zabateri, P.Ronsard, Bernard Zatzka and Joseph Bernard.

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1877 to 1882, where he took lessons with Christian Griepenkerl, Carl Wurzinger and Carl Von Blaas.

In 1880, the twenty years old painter received his first reward, the Goldene Füger-Medaillen.

Paintings of Children by Garmashs

Mr. Mikhail (Michael) Garmash (1969 Lugansk, Ukraine) and Mrs. Inessa Garmash (1972 Lipetsk, Russia) are two award winning Russian painters, known for working in the Romantic /Impressionist /Figurative style.

Both work on the same piece, which is extraordinarily unique in the art industry.

Several years after their marriage, Michael began a painting of their daughter for a project at school.

However, their two-year old found the painting during his absence and painted her own version of the subject.

Lionello Balestrieri | Triptych of Chopin, 1904

Lionello Balestrieri | Chopin Triptych, 1904 | Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

The Balestrieri's Triptych of Chopin is a series of three panel painting:

╰┈➤ Chopin and George Sand;

╰┈➤ Chopin at Piano;

╰┈➤ Chopin Dying.

Location: Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA.

Alexander Gorbikov, 1966 | Plein air painter

Александр Горбиков was born in Stavropol, Russia. In 1998 he has graduated Repin Academy of painting, a sculpture and architecture in St. Petersburg. Is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, the International Federation of Artists. Now Александр lives and works in a Stavropol.

Karen Tarlton, 1965 | Storia d'amore sotto la pioggia

Le opere di Karen Tarlton sono altamente collezionabili e sono esposte in gallerie e case negli Stati Uniti ed in Europa.

Riconosciuta e acclamata in tutto il mondo, il suo lavoro è attualmente in mostra alla Gallerie Severn a Metairie, Louisiana ed al Tupelo Honey Cafe, Arlington, Virginia.

Inoltre, è stata premiata con la copertina dei numeri di dicembre 2014 e 2016 di Pink Magazine, la copertina del 2016 di Sasee Magazine ed è apparsa in molti altri, tra cui Gallerie d'arte e artisti del sud, ed è stata premiata come EMERGENTE ARTIST di Art Business News Magazine nel settembre 2009.

Romantic paintings by the Garmashs

The Garmashs incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

Mr. and Mrs. Garmash are considered two of the finest Romantic Impressionists of our day.

Their incredible talent is only matched by their love and career stories.

In similar fashion to the determination of his artwork, Mr. Garmash courted his future wife, after seeing her for but a moment, by painting her image all over her hometown while she slept.

Ms. Garmash, born Inessa Kitaichik, immediately recognized the passion with which this man cared so dearly and married him shortly thereafter.

Fulvio De Marinis, 1971 | Figurative painter

Fulvio De Marinis born in Naples, Italy. He graduated from the Secondary School of Art and attended the Academy of Arts in Naples.

De Marinis is a painter inspired by classical painting, but his works are extremely topical, through the representation of places, colours, and customs of the present day.

His characters and still-lives are distinguishable in the use of delicate tones and light shades, proving his technical qualification and ability to express moods of the characters represented.

Despite his young age, his paintings are requested by collectors and prestigious galleries.

Konstantin Korovin | Paris painting

"Paris was a shock for me … Impressionists… in them I found everything I was scolded for back home in Moscow", wrote Konstantin Korovin (1861-1939), Russian Impressionist painter.

Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin / Константи́н Алексе́евич Коро́вин was born in Moscow to a merchant family officially registered as "peasants of Vladimir Gubernia".

His father, Aleksey Mikhailovich Korovin, earned a university degree and was more interested in arts and music than in the family business established by Konstantin's grandfather.

Ippolito Caffi between Venice and the Orient

150 years ago during the Battle of Lissa, Ippolito Caffi (1809-1866) lost his life on the sinking ship Re d’Italia, on which he had embarked to document the events of the war through his swift and accurate drawings.

Caffi, born in Belluno but Venetian by choice, was an extraordinary painter and reporter, a restless observer of society and a convinced patriot. 150 years ago (almost a sign of fate!) the Veneto and Venice were annexed to Italy.