Let's talk about the masterpieces of art

January 15, 2021

Van Gogh. Vase with Iris on a yellow background
One of the few still lifes that Vincent Van Gogh painted from the Saint Remy hospital. This version with a yellow background is kept at the Van Gogh Museum and there is another with a white background exhibited in New York.
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January 12, 2021

The Voynich manuscript
This famous manuscript is still undeciphered. Discovered in 1912 by Wilfred Voynich, many experts have examined it to understand the writings, but without success.
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January 7, 2021

Hokusai Katsushica. The suspension bridge between Edu and Echu
In Japan, a popular art form developed that put painters in direct contact with the public through the prints of their works. Scenes of everyday life, views, portraits, erotic subjects, flowers, everything that could please people who gladly bought these prints.
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December 30, 2020

Vincent Van Gogh - Plowed Field
Vincent Van Gogh used strong and decisive brushstrokes without spreading the color, but using the brush to draw. Vincent, in fact, does not fill the areas with uniform color, but fills them with lines of color as if he were drawing line after line.

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December 29, 2020

Gustave Doré - The Divine Comedy
Gustave Dor * was an exceptional and prolific engraver. In addition to the Divine Comedy he illustrated dozens and dozens of books and even the bible. His stage inventions were used in film up to Star Wars and Shreck.
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Van Gogh. Vase with Iris on a yellow background