Isaac Levitan | Impressionist painter

Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н (1860-1900) was a classical Lithuanian-Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".

Levitan's work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape.

Levitan did not paint urban landscapes; with the exception of the View of Simonov Monastery (whereabouts unknown), mentioned by Nesterov, the city of Moscow appears only in the painting Illumination of the Kremlin.

Edgar Degas | Life and Artworks

Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist", preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent". Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members.

Like the Impressionists, he sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his Academic training.

Boris Pasternak | Sometime at a concert hall.. / Negli anni un giorno o l'altro in un concerto, 1931

Boris Beside The Baltic At Merekule 1910 | Portrait by his father Leonid Pasternak

Negli anni un giorno o l'altro in un concerto

Mi soneranno Brahms, - proverò la nostalgia.

Trasalirò, ricorderò l'unione di sei cuori,

I passeggi, i bagni, l'aiola di casa mia.

La fronte dritta della pittrice, timida come sogno,

Con un sorriso mite, un beato sorriso,

Un sorriso immenso e chiaro, come globo,

Il sorriso della pittrice, la fronte e il viso.

Lavinia Fontana | The first professional Woman painter in the Italian history of art

Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614) was an Italian painter.

She is regarded as the First Woman artist, working within the same sphere as her male counterparts, outside a court or convent.

She was the first woman artist to paint female figures, and was the main breadwinner of a family of 13.

Lavinia Fontana was born in Bologna, the daughter of the painter Prospero Fontana, who was a prominent painter of the School of Bologna at the time and served as her teacher. Continuing the family business was typical at the time.

Boris Pasternak | Sunrise / L’alba

Sunrise

You were my life sometime ago.

Then came the war, the devastation.

You vanished, leaving me alone,

Without a trace or explanation.

When many years had passed me by,

Your voice awakened me by chance.

I sat and read Your Word all night

And came to life out of a trance.

Pavlos Samios (1948-2021)

Pavlos Samios - Παύλος Σάμιος - was a Greek painter and professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Samios was born in Athens, Greece. His interest about art rose during his early childhood when he used to spend many hours at his father's workshop (Samios’ father was a shoemaker).

As a teenager he worked at Dionysios Karoussos icon-painting studio and at the same time he attended drawing lessons under Panos Sarafianos so that he could pass the exams in order to enter the School of Fine Arts where he became accepted in 1969.

Federico García Lorca | Serenade / Serenata

Along the banks of the river

the night is bathing

and on the breasts of Lolita

die of love the branches.

Die of love branches.

Vanessa Lemen | Harmony in the Ebb and Flow

Dino Buzzati / Alex Alemany | Lettera d'amore

Alex Alemany, 1943

Sono finalmente ritornato, tesoro, ed ora aspetto che tu mi raggiunga.

Nell’ultima tua lettera, che ho avuto un mese fa, dicevi appunto che non potevi più vivere senza di me. Ti credo, perché uguale è il sentimento mio. Non è come un’attrazione fatale, quasi un castigo?

Di solito, tra uomo e donna, soltanto uno dei due si innamora. L’altro, o l’altra, accetta, o subisce. Nel nostro caso, meravigliosamente, la passione è pari in entrambi. Pazzi tutti e due. Ciò è bellissimo ma fa anche paura. Siamo come due foglie furiosamente sospinte l’una verso l’altra da opposti venti.

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Michelangelo Buonarroti | Vita ed Opere

Michelàngelo (o Michelàngiolo; propr. Michelàgnolo) Buonarroti - Architetto, scultore, pittore, poeta (Caprese, od. Caprese Michelangelo, Arezzo, 1475 - Roma 1564). Culmine della civiltà rinascimentale, celebrato come il massimo genio del suo tempo, ne rappresentò anche la drammatica conclusione. Apprendista dal 1487 nella bottega di D. Ghirlandaio, intorno al 1489 venne in contatto presso il giardino di S. Marco, domicilio della collezione di antichità della famiglia Medici, con la statuaria classica e la filosofia neoplatonica, componenti essenziali per lo sviluppo della sua produzione artistica.

Nel 1498 il cardinale J. Bilhères gli commissionò per la sua tomba in S. Petronilla a Roma la Pietà : per il carattere di perfetta armonia, grazia e bellezza, l'opera suscitò universale ammirazione. Tornato a Firenze, Michelàngelo realizzò la statua di David🎨(1501-04), quindi nel 1505 fu di nuovo a Roma per eseguire la tomba di Giulio II in S. Pietro, i cui tormentati lavori si sarebbero protratti per oltre quarant'anni.