Auguste Raynaud | Awaiting his return

Auguste Raynaud (1854-1937) was a popular 19th-century Genre and portrait painter.

Born and raised in Lyon, Auguste Raynaud attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied with Danguin, Henri Lehmann and Félix-Auguste Clément.

In 1876, he moved to Lyon, rue de l'Annonciade, and presented a painting to the Société des Amis des Arts d'Avignon, entitled "Giotto, enfant dans la campagne du Tyrol".

Jules Breton | The painter of peasant life

Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1827-1906) was a 19th-century French naturalist painter.

His paintings are heavily influenced by the French countryside and his absorption of traditional methods of painting helped make him one of the primary transmitters of the beauty and idyllic vision of rural existence.

He was one of the best known painters of his period in his native France as well as England and the United States.

Jules-Breton | The Song of the Lark, 1884 | Art Institute of Chicago

Victor Hugo: "Ti Auguro"

Ti auguro in primo luogo di amare e che, amando, tu sia riamato.

E se non è così, che sia breve il ricordo, e finito il ricordo che tu non conservi rancore.

Ti auguro che non sia così,

ma se così fosse, che tu sappia vivere senza disperazione.

Antonio Nunziante

Ginevra Cantofoli (Bologna, 1618-1672)

Ginevra Cantofoli è stata una pittrice Italiana dell'epoca Barocca.

Nata da Francesco Cantofoli ed Ottavia Buldrini, si avvicinò tardi alla pittura.

Studiò presso l'Accademia del disegno di Elisabetta Sirani e quindi operò presso la sua bottega.

Masaccio raccontato da Giorgio Vasari

Costume della Natura, quando ella fa una persona molto eccellente in alcuna professione, molte volte non la far sola: Ma in quel tempo medesimo, et vicino a quella, farne un’altra a sua concorrenza; a cagione, che elle possino giovare l’una all’altra nella virtù, e nella emulazione.

La qual cosa, oltra il singular giovamento di quegli stessi, che in ciò concorrono; accende ancora oltra modo, gli animi di chi viene dopo quella età, a sforzarli con ogni studio, et con ogni industria, di pervenire a quello honore, e a quella gloriosa reputazione, che ne’ passati, tutto ’l giorno altamente sente lodare.

William Bouguereau / Franz Liszt | Liebestraum (Dreams of Love)

Liebesträume (German for Dreams of Love) is a set of three solo piano nocturnes (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt published in 1850.

Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath.

In 1850 two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for high voice and piano, and as transcriptions for piano two-hands.

Camille Pissarro | Jardin et poulailler chez Octave Mirbeau, Les Damps, 1892

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) spent two weeks during September 1892 as the guest of the writer Octave Mirbeau and his wife Alice at their country home in Les Damps, a hamlet in the department of the Eure in northern France.

The artist eagerly anticipated the visit throughout the summer, both for the company, Mirbeau was among the most sensitive interpreters of his work and a fellow advocate of anarchist ideals, and for the splendid motifs to be found at Les Damps.

Camille Pissarro | Jardin et poulailler chez Octave Mirbeau, Les Damps, 1892 | Christie's

James Clarke Hook | Pittore di genere

James Clarke Hook RA (1819-1907) è stato un pittore ed incisore Inglese di scene marine, di genere e storiche e paesaggi.

Nel 1844 e nel 1845 la British Institution espose due dipinti di Hook - soggetti tratti da Shakespeare e Burns - che, insieme ai precedenti, dimostrarono la sua capacità di trattare temi del sentimento romantico e del pittoresco, allora in voga, ma in modo originale e vigoroso.

"The Song of Olden Times" (Royal Academy, 1845) segnò nettamente il futuro percorso dell'artista sotto molti aspetti tecnici.

René Henri Gengoux (Bellor), 1911-2000

René Henri Gengoux (1911-2000), detto Bellor, nacque ad Arlon il 30 luglio 1911, dove trascorse la giovinezza e l'adolescenza.

Intorno ai 14/15 anni, un amico lo portò a un corso serale di disegno all'accademia, dove dopo alcune settimane il suo insegnante gli disse che non aveva più niente da insegnargli. I genitori di questo ragazzo dotato lo iscrissero alla scuola St. Luc di Tournai per studiare architettura.

Kaoru Yamada | Illustratrice e copywriter a Tokyo

"Sono una illustratrice, copywriter ed artista AI.

Combino espressioni realistiche ed astratte per creare un mondo che esplora i confini tra realtà e sogno" - Kaoru Yamada / 山田カオル, nata a Kamakura, in Giappone.

Oggetto delle illustrazioni della Yamada sono i paesaggi, le persone nella vita quotidiana, lestagioni e così via.

La sua passione è rappresentare la bellezza, sia nel mondo digitale che attraverso l'Intelligenza Artificiale.

William Bouguereau | Les oranges, 1865

The image of a mother and child is a symbol of universal relevance. It exists and is celebrated within every culture, throughout its respective history.

Through iconic works like Les Oranges, Bouguereau has made an enduring contribution to this fundamental canon of imagery and he continues to have a profound impact on how such images are produced and received to this day.

The present painting is among Bouguereau's greatest achievements. His virtuosity is apparent in every element of the painting, which was executed at the height of his genius.

Wisława Szymborska | L'Odio

Guardate com'è sempre efficiente,

come si mantiene in forma

nel nostro secolo, l'odio.

Con quanta facilità supera gli ostacoli,

come gli è facile avventarsi, agguantare.

Non è come gli altri sentimenti,

insieme più vecchio e più giovane di loro.

René Magritte

Franz Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, S.244/2, is the second in a set of 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies by composer Franz Liszt, published in 1851, and is by far the most famous of the set.

The Hungarian-born composer and pianist Franz Liszt was strongly influenced by the music heard in his youth, particularly Hungarian folk music, with its unique gypsy scale, rhythmic spontaneity and direct, seductive expression.

These elements would eventually play a significant role in Liszt's compositions.

Josef Nikolaus Kriehuber | Portrait of Franz Liszt, 1846

Jules Breton, il Poeta della Luce

Louis Aimé Aldolphe Jules Breton (1827-1906) è stato un pittore e poeta Francese.

Vincent van Gogh amava sia l'arte che la poesia.

Amava in particolar modo l'arte realista del XIX secolo e la poesia francese di Jules Adolphe Aime Louis Breton (1827-1906).

Sia l'arte che la poesia di Breton si concentravano sulla campagna francese, sui temi contadini ed, a volte, sulla sua fede cristiana.

Gustave Caillebotte | Painter - Member and patron of the Impressionists

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.

Caillebotte's sizable allowance, along with the inheritance he received after the death of his father in 1874 and his mother in 1878, allowed him to paint without the pressure to sell his work.

It also allowed him to help fund Impressionist exhibitions and support his fellow artists and friends (Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, and Camille Pissarro among others) by purchasing their works and, at least in the case of Monet, paying the rent for their studios.

Marc Chagall | Flowers and lovers

"You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers".

"Potresti chiederti per ore cosa significano i fiori, ma per me sono la vita stessa, in tutto il suo felice splendore. Non potevamo fare a meno dei fiori".

Salvatore Quasimodo / Fabian Perez | Mi chiedi parole, 1967

Mi chiedi parole. Ma il tempo

precipita come un masso sulla mia anima

che vuole certezze, e più non ha sillabe

da offrire se non quelle silenziose

del sangue legate al tuo nome,

o mia vita, mio amore senza fine.

Eugene de Blaas | Gypsy Girl

Eugene de Blaas, also known as Eugene von Blaas or Eugenio Blaas (24 July 1843 - 10 February 1931), was an Italian-Austrian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism.

He was born at Albano, near Rome, to a Tyrolean father and Italian mother.

His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher.

His mother, Agnesina Auda, was a well-to-do Roman woman.

The family moved to Venice when Karl became professor at the Academy of Venice.

He often painted scenes in Venice, but also portraits and religious paintings.

Angelo Morbelli | Per 80 centesimi! 1895

"Per 80 centesimi!", opera di Angelo Morbelli, uno dei capolavori del Museo Borgogna, venne acquistata nel 1912 alla Mostra d’Arte della campagna irrigua tenutasi a Vercelli, a pochi anni dall'apertura al pubblico del Museo.

Il dipinto, firmato e datato 1895, ha avuto una lunga e tormentata elaborazione, come testimonia la corrispondenza fra l’artista e il collega Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo: iniziato nel 1893, venne ripreso prima di essere esposto nel 1895 alla Biennale di Venezia.

Luigi Pastega | Genre painter

Luigi Pastega (Venice, 1858-1927) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.

He was a pupil of Pompeo Marino Molmenti and Napoleone Nani at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.

He continued to reside in Venice painting vedute and genre subjects in a style that recalled Giacomo Favretto.

Kajetan Kovič | Istruzioni per dormire

Certo, addormentarsi.

Scacciare la luna

dalla finestra.

Mettere in contumacia

le zanzare.

Stabilire per i gatti

lo spazio notturno.

Zittire i malinconici

cani dei vicini.

Sigismondo Coccapani | Baroque painter

Sigismondo Coccapani (1585-1643) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Born in Florence, he studied under Ludovico Cigoli in Rome, before returning to his native city.

He at first studied literature and mathematics, but abandoned them for painting, becoming a pupil of Ludovico Cigoli in Rome where he assisted him on his work at Santa Maria Maggiore in 1610-13.

Using his scientific background he showed Cigoli, who was making a record of solar activity for his friend Galileo, how to observe and record sunspots through a method of projection.

Wisława Szymborska | Le donne di Rubens

Ercolesse, fauna femminile,

nude come il fragore di botti.

Fanno il nido in letti calpestati,

nel sonno la bocca si apre al chicchirichì.

Le pupille rovesciate all’indietro

Penetrano dentro le ghiandole da cui i lieviti stillano nel sangue.

Peter Paul Rubens | Frans Snyders - Ceres with two Nymphs, 1624 | Museo Nacional del Prado

Vincent van Gogh | Landscape under a stormy sky, 1889

Van Gogh's dramatically atmospheric Paysage sous un ciel mouvementé is one of the finest of the artist's Arles landscapes.

Painted amidst the most fruitful period of the artist's career, when his canvases were flooded with rich passages of densely-painted color, the composition depicts a verdant field under threat of an explosive rainstorm.

Van Gogh creates a scene of intense anticipation here, replete with psychological drama as the laborers hurry to finish their work before the heavens rain down upon them.

Vincent van Gogh | Landscape Under a Stormy Sky, 1889 | Sotheby's

Peter Paul Rubens | Mars and Rhea Silvia, 1617

Mars and Rhea Silvia is a 1617 painting by Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna.

It shows Mars's rape of Rhea Silvia, which resulted in the birth of Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.

Anwen Keeling, 1976 | Figurative painter

Anwen Keeling is an Australian portrait painter.

Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings.

She has "always been influenced by Caravaggio".

Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows.