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Dante Alighieri | Ladies that have intelligence in love..

Ladies that have intelligence in love,
⁠Of mine own lady I would speak with you;
⁠Not that I hope to count her praises through,
⁠But telling what I may, to ease my mind.
And I declare that when I speak thereof,
Love sheds such perfect sweetness over me
That if my courage failed not, certainly
⁠To him my listeners must be all resign'd.


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Paolo and Francesca | Dante Alighieri | Inferno, Canto V

Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona,
mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
che, come vedi, ancor non m’abbandona.

Amor condusse noi ad una morte.
Caina attende chi a vita ci spense".
Queste parole da lor ci fuor porte.

Auguste Rodin | The Kiss (Paolo and Francesca) detail | Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

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Douglas Kirkland, 1934 | Hollywood's photographer

Douglas Kirkland is a Canadian photographer based in the United States.
Douglas Kirkland is the legendary photographer who captured Hollywood elite.
Kirkland has been the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, working for the world’s most reputable magazines for more than 50 years.
As a young photographer in 1961 he was assigned to shoot Marilyn Monroe during several hours in a closed studio one night, captured a stunning portfolio of alluring and intimate images that survive to this day as a testament to her beauty and vulnerability.

Douglas Kirkland | Marilyn Monroe, 1961

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Edoardo Ettore Forti | Neo-Pompeian painter

Edoardo Ettore Forti (1850-1940) was an Italian painter, active late 19th century - early 20th century.
was an Italian painter, who was prolific in depicting realistic Neo-Pompeian scenes of Ancient Roman life and events. These subjects were popular in the late-Victorian period, as exemplified by the popularity of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
He concentrated on ancient Roman subjects, which were rarely based on actual historical events.


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Eugeniusz Żak / Post-Impressionist painter

Eugeniusz Żak (1884-1926), also known as Eugène Zak and Eugene Zak, was a Polish artist, born to a family of Polish Jews in Minsk, Belarus.
As a boy he moved to Warsaw, where he graduated from a non-classical secondary school.
In 1902, he left for Paris to undertake studies, first at the École des Beaux-Arts in the studio of the aged master of academism Jean-Léon Gerôme, and then at Académie Colarossi in the studio of Albert Besnard.
In 1903, he traveled to Italy and toward the end of the year to Munich, where he entered a private school run by the Slovenian Anton Ažbé. His fame grew rapidly.


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Madeleine Lemaire | The Empress of Roses

Madame Madeleine Lemaire, née Coll (1845-1928) was a French painter and illustrator specialized in watercolour and oils of still-lives of flowers, especially roses, genre scenes and portraits.
Madeleine Lemaire was a pupil in Paris of the artists Madame Herbelin and of Charles Chaplin.
In 1864, she made her debut in the Paris Salon where she was to exhibit throughout her life, winning awards in 1877 and 1900.
She also exhibited at the Société des Aquarellistes from 1879.


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Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach | Quotes / Aforismi

"Your whole body… is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too…"
▻ "Il vostro corpo non è altro che il vostro pensiero, una forma del vostro pensiero, visibile, concreta. Spezzate le catene che imprigionano il pensiero, e anche il vostro corpo sarà libero".


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18 Marzo, Giornata Nazionale in Memoria delle Vittime Covid-19

Quel giorno anche la mia città era deserta. Deserta di persone, di negozi, di vita!
Uscita con i miei barboncini, ero sola per la strada, sola con la paura e la tristezza.
Non avrei mai pensato di vivere scene del genere.
La sera, il telegiornale trasmise la fila dei 70 camion militari che stava lasciando il cimitero di Bergamo per portare via i feretri delle vittime del coronavirus della prima ondata.

Tutto il mondo rimase scioccato di quella scena.

Bargamo, 18-marzo 2020 | Covid-19

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Ozz Franca | Figurative painter

Ozz Franca (1928-1991) - born and grew up in Sao Paolo, Brazil, and from an early age he showed talents an artist, as well as exceptional prowess as a competitive swimmer.
At 14 he won first prize at the annual Spring Salon Art Competition. At 15, he qualified for the Brazilian Olympic Swimming Team.
With two amazing talents, Franca was unsure what he should do with his life. Fate stepped in, and the Olympic Games were canceled the year Franca was to compete due to the outbreak of World War II.


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Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston | Parte terza

"Jonathan è quel vivido piccolo fuoco che arde in tutti noi, che vive solo per quei momenti in cui raggiungiamo la perfezione" - Richard Bach.


Jonathan volteggiava lentamente sopra le Scogliere Remote, e osservava il suo discepolo. Fletcher Lynd, giovane e acerbo, era quasi perfetto come allievo. Era forte e leggero e veloce e, quel che più contava, era divorato dalla passione del volo.
Eccolo là che arriva, grigia piccola meteora, eccolo che esce da una picchiata, e sfreccia a centocinquanta miglia all'ora davanti al suo istruttore. Ed ecco che ora cabra repentino e tenta un mulinello verticale lento, in sedici movimenti staccati successivi. E li enumerava a uno a uno a voce alta, i vari passaggi da una fase all'altra.
- "…otto…nove…dieci…mamma mia come rallento…undici…vorrei poter frenare forte come te…dodici…mannaggia..noncelafopiù…tredici…'stiultimitremovimenti…quattor…aaaaak!"

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Christophe Vacher, 1996 | Fantasy painter


Christophe Vacher is a two-time Emmy Award winner and Annie Award Nominee French artist who has provided Backgrounds, Visual Development and Art Direction for Disney, Dreamworks, Universal Studios and the film industry since 1989.
He worked in many small animation studios before joining Disney's Paris-based animation unit for three years, where he painted backgrounds for such animated films as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Runaway Brain" and served as head of background for the 1995 feature, "A Goofy Movie".

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Dante Alighieri | My lady looks so gentle and so pure / Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare..

La "Vita Nuova" (The New Life) or "Vita Nova" (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) published in 1294.
It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.
La "Vita Nuova" contains 42 brief chapters with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love.

Raffaello Sorbi | Dante incontra Beatrice

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Olga Darchuk /Ольга Дарчук, 1976


La pittrice ed insegnante d'arte Ucraina Olga Darchuk è nata nella città di Krivoy Rog, nella regione di Dnepropetrovsk.
Si è laureata presso il Liceo Artistico e l'Università pedagogica Krivoy Rog - Facoltà di grafica artistica.
Darchuk crede che l'arte dovrebbe portare alle persone gioia, ispirazione e trasmettere emozioni positive. La sua creatività è ispirata e basata sul lavoro con il colore.
Le vivaci composizioni di Darchuk sono dipinte esclusivamente con una spatola, usa molto raramente i pennelli. Preferisce creare utilizzando la tecnica Alla Prima con oli su tela.
I soggetti urbani e naturali dai colori forti e fluenti trasmettono un sentimento di speranza e leggerezza.

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Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston | Seconda parte

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

Richard Bach and Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Sicché questo è il paradiso, egli pensò, e gli venne da sorridere fra sé. Non era mica molto rispettoso, criticare il paradiso, quando ancora non ci sei manco arrivato.
Provenienti dalla Terra, oltre le nubi, lui e gli altri due gabbiani volavano in formazione compatta, e d’un tratto, egli si accorse che il suo corpo si era fatto splendente come il loro. Sì sì, lui era sempre il gabbiano Jonathan, era lo stesso giovane gabbiano che sempre si era sentito, dentro di sé, di essere: solo che la forma esteriore era cambiata, adesso.
Il suo pareva sempre un corpo di gabbiano, ma già volava molto molto meglio di quello di prima. Guarda qua, disse a se stesso, ora con metà fatica vado il doppio più veloce: due volte tanto, rispetto ai miei migliori risultati sulla terra!
Le sue penne splendevano adesso d’un candore soave, le sue ali erano lievi, lisce come d’argento polito, perfette. Si mise subito, tutto contento, a provarle, a imparare a usarle, a imprimere potenza alle sue nuove ali.

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Georgi Lapchine (1885-1950)


Georgi (Georges) Alexandrovich Lapchine / Георгий Александрович Лапшин è nato a Mosca.
All'inizio del 1900 ha studiato alla scuola Stroganov. Ha vissuto a Parigi, dove ha studiato con Cormon e JF L'Hermitte.
Ritornato a Mosca, partecipò alla mostra collettiva dell'indipendenza (1910) e fu fondatore / partecipante permanente di "Arte libera" (1911-1917).

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Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston, 1970 | Prima parte

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

Mario Lupo | Il gabbiano Jonathan Livingston, 1986 | San Benedetto del Tronto

"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.

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Giuliano Grittini, 1951 | Photographer / Pop Art painter


Giuliano Grittini was born and lives in Corbetta (Milan - Italy), where he attended the School of Graphic Design and had the opportunity to develop his skills especially in printing of author's books.
He has collaborated with important Italian and international artists like Baj, Fiume, Sassu, Guttuso, Scanavino, Tadini, Warhol, Vasarely, Rotella, which he photographed during different times of their artistic activity.

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Alda Merini / Camille Claudel | Smile woman / Sorridi donna

Camille Claudel | The Mature Age, 1913 (detail) | Claudel room at the Musée Rodin in Paris

Sorridi donna
sorridi sempre alla vita
anche se lei non ti sorride
Sorridi agli amori finiti
sorridi ai tuoi dolori
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Alda Merini /Anne-Christine Roda | A tutte le donne!


Fragile, opulenta donna, matrice del paradiso
sei un granello di colpa
anche agli occhi di Dio
malgrado le tue sante guerre
per l'emancipazione.

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Il simbolismo poetico di Arunas Rutkus, 1961

Arunas Rutkus (nato a Vilnius, Lituania) è uno di quei rari artisti che, avvertendo il ritmo della globalizzazione, si sono uniti alla scena artistica globale con grande fiducia.
Nel 1987, nell'ambito della gara individuale dell'Unione degli Artisti, ha partecipato al Simposio di arte monumentale sotto la direzione di A. Karnaukhov a Mosca.
L'artista ha esposto le sue opere in più di 50 mostre personali e collettive in tutto il mondo, e le sue opere possono essere trovate in musei, gallerie e collezioni private negli Stati Uniti, Qatar, Monaco, Francia, Emirati Arabi Uniti, Cina, Russia, Regno Unito, Italia, Olanda, Belgio, Austria, Danimarca, Germania, Svezia, Estonia, Ungheria, Spagna, Israele, Nuova Zelanda, Lituania.


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The Muses frescoes at the Pompeii’s Moregine

Pompei - Affreschi di Moregine(primo triclinio) | Erato (detail)

Pompeii’s Moregine frescoes, which were unearthed inside a Roman villa discovered in 1959 during construction works for the Naples-Salerno highway, are on display inside the newly-restored Large Gymnasium.
The Moregine architectural complex is located outside the walls of Pompeii, approximately 600 meters South of the Stabian Gate.
The ancient villa was discovered at the mouth of the river Sarno and of its ancient trading post: a porticoed courtyard fronted by at least five frescoed triclinia, or formal dining rooms, and thermal baths under construction.

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Louis Valtat | Still life of flowers


Louis Valtat was a French painter and printmaker, associated with the Fauves, who exhibited at the first Salon des Indépendants of 1884.
He is noted as a key figure in the stylistic transition in painting from Monet to Matisse.
Louis Valtat was born in Normandy in 1869, he is the son of the famous painter François Victor Valtat.
Two years later, Louis Valtat entered the School of Fine Arts and attended courses at the Julian Academy, where he met the Nabis group, including Edouard Vuillard.

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Emilio Gola (1851-1923) | Genre painter


Emilio Gola was an Italian painter.
Born in Milan into a noble family, Emilio (Conte) Gola was encouraged to develop his interest in art in his adolescence by his father, a dilettante painter.
He graduated in industrial engineering from the Milan Polytechnic in 1873 and devoted himself to painting under the guidance of Sebastiano De Albertis. His training also involved frequent trips to Paris and the Netherlands.

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Max Ernst | Dada / Surrealist painter

Max Ernst, in full Maximilian Maria Ernst (born April 2, 1891, Brühl, Germany - died April 1, 1976, Paris, France), German painter and sculptor who was one of the leading advocates of irrationality in art and an originator of the Automatism movement of Surrealism.
He became a naturalized citizen of both the United States, 1948 and France, 1958.
Ernst’s early interests were psychiatry and philosophy, but he abandoned his studies at the University of Bonn for painting.


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Cesare-Auguste Detti (1847-1914)

Cesare Agostino Detti, o Cesare-Auguste Detti è stato un pittore Italiano, noto soprattutto per le sue scene di genere storico, in gran parte del XVII e XVIII secolo, ispirate allo stile del Trovatore.
Nato a Spoleto nel 1847, Cesare Augusto Detti si trasferisce a Roma nel 1862 e segue all’Accademia di San Luca le lezioni di Francesco Podesti e Francesco Coghetti (che Detti poteva avere conosciuto anche a Spoleto in occasione della realizzazione del sipario del teatro).


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Edmond Rostand | A kiss, when all is said, what is it? / Un bacio, dopo tutto cos’è?


"Cyrano de Bergerac" is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. There was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, and the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life.
The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

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Olga and Sergey Kamennoy


Sergey ed Olga sono la coppia di artisti che lavorano insieme sotto lo pseudonimo di "KAMU Sergey and Olga" per più di 15 anni.
- Sergey Kamennoy / Сергей Каменной è nato nel 1959 a Kharkov, Ucraina.
Ha studiato alla scuola d'arte, frequentando l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Kharkov dal 1978-1983.
E' membro dell'Unione degli Artisti di Ucraina dal 1988.
Durante gli studi si rese conto che era daltonico, anche se lui eccelso in disegno e incisione.
Ha costruito una carriera di successo nella stesura.

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Dora Meeson (1869-1955)

Dora Meeson was an Australian artist and an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, England.
She was a member of the British Artists' Suffrage League.
Although born in Melbourne, Dora Meeson moved with her family to London as a child, and commenced her art studies at the Slade School.
In 1895 she returned to the antipodes and spent two years at Melbourne's National Gallery School, where she met her future husband, George Coates, before returning again to Europe just as Coates won the Travelling Scholarship.


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Raoul Dufy | Still Life


Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) was a French Fauvist painter, brother of Jean Dufy.
He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings.
He is noted for scenes of open-air social events.
He was also a draftsman, printmaker, book illustrator, scenic designer, a designer of furniture, and a planner of public spaces.

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Fatima Tomaeva-Gabellini, 1967 | Figurative painter


Born in the city of Vladikavkaz, Russia, Fatima Tomaeva-Gabellini / Фатима Томаева - is a talented Osetinian artist.
From 1986-1991 she studied and graduated from the Art School of Vladikavkaz. Later she studied art in Italy.
Since 1998 Tomaeva Gabellini lives and works in Italy.
Multifaceted talent, ranging from fifteenth-century Russian Orthodox iconography to more modern shapes of the female body in the most diverse attitudes and plastic movements.

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The Ladies of the Renaissance

Although women artists have been involved in the making of art throughout history, their work, when compared to that of their male counterparts, has been often obfuscated, overlooked and undervalued.
Many of their works have been wrongly attributed to men artists.
Renaissance Europe was not a promising place for female artists to emerge. Women were expected to marry and have children, and those who did work were not welcomed into male-dominated professions.
In fact women were unable to even receive formal art training (a cornerstone of which was the study of the figure).


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Plautilla Nelli | The first Woman painter of Florence

Sister Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588) was a self-taught nun-artist and the first-known female Renaissance painter of Florence.
She was a nun of the Dominican convent of St. Catherine of Siena located in Piazza San Marco, Florence, and was heavily influenced by the teachings of Savonarola and by the artwork of Fra Bartolomeo.

Plautilla Nelli | The Last Supper, 1570 (detail) | Museo di Santa Maria Novella, Florence

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Fatima Ronquillo, 1976 | Magic realism painter


Fatima Ronquillo is a self-taught painter who combines old master techniques with a playful modern sensibility to create a world where art history meets with imagined characters from literature, theatre and opera.

Biography
Born in Pampanga, Philippines, Fatima Ronquillo emigrated as a child to the United States in 1987 where her family settled in San Antonio, Texas.
She began exhibiting her work from the age of fifteen and is now widely collected in the United States and internationally.

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Levina Teerlinc (1510-1576) | Renaissance miniaturist


Levina Teerlinc was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
She was the most important miniaturist at the English court between Hans Holbein the Younger and Nicholas Hilliard.
Her father, Simon Bening was a renowned book illuminator and miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and probably trained her as a manuscript painter. She may have worked in her father's workshop before her marriage.

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Catharina van Hemessen (1528-1587) | Renaissance painter


Caterina or Catharina van Hemessen was a Flemish Renaissance painter.
She is the earliest female Flemish painter for whom there is verifiable extant work.
She is mainly known for a series of small scale female portraits completed between the late 1540s and early 1550s and a few religious compositions.
Van Hemessen is often given the distinction of creating the first self-portrait of an artist (of either gender) depicted seated at an easel.

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Diana Scultori (1547-1612) Mannerist painter


Diana Scultori, Diana Montovano, or Diana Ghisi was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy.
She is one of the earliest known women printmakers.
She was one of four children of the sculptor and engraver Giovanni Battista Ghisi. Diana learned the art of engraving from her father and the artist Giulio Romano.
She received her first public recognition as an engraver in Giorgio Vasari’s second edition of his Vites (1568).

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Carol Carter, 1955 | Watercolor painter


American painter Carol Carter is an internationally recognized artist whose career has spanned more than 35 years. Carol has taught workshops for over 30 years, as well as in university.
Her paintings have been in many national and international exhibitions, both juried and invitational.
She has been featured in global publications including, International Arts Magazine, Art of Watercolour, Watercolor Artist and L’Aquarelle Magazine.
In 2012 she was an AIRE fellow for the Everglades National Park. She is part of the Art in Embassies program with art currently in the American Embassy in Montenegro.

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Sherree Valentine Daines, 1956 | Ballet dancers