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The Count of Altamira commissioned Goya to paint portraits of his entire family. Among all the best known is the portrait of his son Manuel in which Goya inserted elements that he did not paint in the other portraits. Because?Read now
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Kitagawa Utamaro. The kiss
At a glance we understand the great cultural and taste difference between the images of the West and Japan which, moreover, was completely isolated and without communication with other cultures and peoples.Read now -
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the happy painter.
Read nowThe proverb says that a good morning starts in the morning.
If so, part of the credit for Renoir's optimism and happiness would go to his mother who, choosing the name Pierre, added Auguste because "... too many r's in this name ...
His is the phrase: “For me, a painting must be something lovable, cheerful and beautiful; Yeah baby. There are already enough boring things in life without making any more of them. "
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Two in love by Vincent Van Gogh
Read nowIn painting the primary colors are those that cannot be obtained by mixing the other colors and are yellow, blue and red.
The secondaries are those obtained by mixing only the two primaries
While pure colors are those that do not have light or dark shades.
Van Gogh creates the image with pure primary and secondary colors.
In all, six colors spread in thickness, almost without a brush, creating a thick relief surface.
The gesture is also as simple as it is tender. The woman hugs and leans on the man who precedes her a little to support her in defense.
They walk together along a road that is a symbol of a road between green fields.
There is nothing to add to the mastery of telling a world with a few strokes of color, a sensitive expression of one's soul.
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Jacques Louis David - Brushes and revolution
The life of J.L. David is made up of art and politics. The pursuit and practice of power has been a constant in the life of the greatest representative of neoclassicism.Read now -
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.Read now -
Bazille, family reunion
In his short life, Frederic Bazille had time to join the group of Impressionists and to be one of its driving forces with his energy and his expansive character.Read now -
Signorini in Riomaggiore
Telemaco Signorini "discovers" Riomaggiore, takes a house in the small village and paints various glimpses and views of the place, and despite being a Ligurian seaside town, it does not inspire the painter with any view of the sea.Read now -
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.Read now