David Garrett | Smile (Charlie Chaplin song) 🌹

In the final scene of Modern Times, Charlie and the gamine set off down the road to a new life.

When they get up off the grass verge to go, he pauses and points to the corners of his mouth, indicating that she should smile.

"Smile" has become a popular standard since its original use in Charlie Chaplin's film and has been recorded by numerous artists.

"Smile" is a song based on the theme song used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times.

Peter Demetz, 1969 | Hyperrealistic wood sculptor

Peter Demetz is best known for his incredibly realistic hand-carved sculptures of people, caught in contemplative, in-between moments.

His installations push beyond the framework of daily life, capturing the simple gestures and unique poses of his subject.

Peter Demetz was born in Bolzano-Italy and lives and works in Ortisei (BZ).

Coppélia, The Girl with the enamel eyes

Dr. Coppélius is a doctor who has made a life-size dancing doll.

It is so lifelike that Franz, a village youth, becomes infatuated with it and sets aside his heart's true desire, Swanhilda.

She shows him his folly by dressing as the doll, pretending to make it come to life and ultimately saving him from an untimely end at the hands of the inventor.

Edgar Degas | Woman Ironing, 1876-1887

Women at work provided inspiration for Degas.

In addition to ballet dancers and cabaret singers, he also painted milliners and dressmakers, laundresses and ironers-such as the young woman here.

Writer Edmond de Goncourt described a visit to Degas' studio when the artist showed him "washerwomen and still more washerwomen...."

Degas was interested in their movements and postures, the patterns and rhythms of their work.

Degas, de Goncourt continued, had gone about "speaking their language, explaining to us technically the downward pressing and circular strokes of the iron, etc...."

Edgar Degas | Woman Ironing, 1876-1887 | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Fritz Kreisler | Love's Joy

Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen (Old Viennese Dances) is a set of three short pieces for violin and piano composed by Austrian-American violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962).

Kreisler wrote a number of pieces for the violin, including solos for encores, such as "Liebesleid" and "Liebesfreud".

Marc Chagall | La Danse

Richard Strauss and Nietzsche: "Also Sprach Zarathustra"

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 is a tone poem by German composer Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's 1883-1885 philosophical work of the same name.

Strauss conducted its first performance on 27 November 1896 in Frankfurt.

A typical performance lasts roughly 33 minutes.

The initial fanfare - titled "Sunrise" in the composer's programme notes - became well known after its use in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Eumir Deodato's jazz-funk hit version won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.

The Strauss monument in Vienna

Johannes Vermeer | View of Delft, 1660-61

"Ever since I saw the View of Delft in the museum in The Hague, I have known that I had seen the most beautiful painting in the world" - Marcel Proust.

View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer (Dutch painter, 1632-1675), painted c. 1659-1661.

The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known.

It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft, and his only cityscape.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Joie de vivre

"To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty!

There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

William Henry Gore | Pittore romantico

William Henry Gore RI (1857–1942) è stato un pittore ed acquerellista inglese vissuto tra la fine dell'epoca vittoriana e l'inizio del XX secolo.

È noto per i suoi paesaggi rurali del Berkshire, sua terra natale, e per i suoi piccoli dipinti di genere, raffiguranti bambini ed animali.

Gore si collocava nella tradizione del tardo Romanticismo e Naturalismo vittoriano, fioriti nel periodo a cavallo tra l'inizio del XX secolo, ma che rapidamente divennero fuori moda all'indomani della Grande Guerra e dei successivi cambiamenti sociali e politici.

Salvatore Quasimodo | Estate / Summer

Cicale, sorelle, nel sole

con voi mi nascondo

nel folto dei pioppi

e aspetto le stelle.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Summer Evening at Skagen Beach, The Artist and his Wife, 1899

Vincent van Gogh | Garden with Courting Couples, 1887

Van Gogh called this sunny park scene 'the painting of the garden with lovers'.

Couples in love are strolling under the young chestnut trees and sitting along the winding paths.

He used a free variation on the technique of the Pointillists.

Essential Facts:

Title: Garden with Courting Couples: Square Saint-Pierre

Date: Paris, May 1887

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 75.0 cm x 113.0 cm

Current location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Václav Brožík | Pittore accademico

Václav Brožík (1851-1901) è stato uno storico dell'arte, considerato il più grande pittore accademico Ceco.

Nel 1896 divenne il primo, e finora unico artista Ceco, a diventare membro dell'Académie des Beaux-Arts.

Václav Brožík studiò dal 1868 presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti di Praga sotto Emil Lauffer.

Nel 1871 si trasferì per poter proseguire i suoi studi all'Accademia di Dresda e dal 1873 all'Accademia di Monaco di Baviera, dove fu influenzato in particolare da Carl Theodor von Piloty.

Frederick Morgan ROI | Genre painter

Frederick Morgan ROI (1847-1927) is known mostly for his romantic and sentimental paintings of children in the same style as his contemporary Arthur John Elsley.

His paintings achieved great popularity in his lifetime and were widely published.

He exhibited with the Royal Academy and was a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI).

Morgan's paintings are exhibited at many art galleries and museums including the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth.

His Turn Next was used to advertise Pears' Soap and is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.

Elli Michler | Ti auguro Tempo

Non ti auguro un dono qualsiasi,

ti auguro soltanto quello che i più non hanno.

Ti auguro tempo, per divertirti e per ridere;

se lo impiegherai bene potrai ricavarne qualcosa.

Anton Dieffenbach | Pittore di genere

Anton Heinrich Dieffenbach (1831-1914) è stato un pittore paesaggista e di genere Tedesco, noto per i suoi ritratti di bambini.

Si trasferì a Strasburgo con i suoi genitori nel 1840 e prese lezioni da un artista locale di nome Charles Duhamel.

Grazie alla raccomandazione di Duhamel, poté recarsi a Parigi e studiare con lo scultore James Pradier.

Fabio Cipolla | Orientalist painter

Fabio Cipolla (1852-1935) was a distinguished Italian painter of genre scenes and "costume paintings".

He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and his works were published in various periodicals.

He made his first appearance at the exhibitions in Milan in 1879 and in Turin in 1880, and in the following years he developed the adoption of a mannered narrative realism on genre subjects.

Fabio Cipolla lived and worked in Rome all his life.

Nikolai Belsky | Genre painter

Russian painter Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) painted mostly genre paintings, especially of the education of peasant children, portraits, and impressionistic landscapes studies.

Bogdanov was born in the village of Shitiki in Smolensk Governorate in 1868, then he added to his surname "Belsky" in accordance with the name of the Uyezd where he was born.

He studied at the elementary school where his teacher was Sergey Rachinsky, then studied icon-painting at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra in 1883, modern painting at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1884 to 1889, and at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg from 1894 to 1895.

Adolf von Becker | Something for the Cat, 1882

Adolf von Becker (1831-1909) was a Finnish genre painter and art professor of German descent, one of the first Finnish artists to study in Paris, who taught many of the young artists of the Golden Age of Finnish Art.

Becker was born in Helsinki, where he began his artistic studies at the newly founded Finnish Art Society Drawing School; he also studied law.

In 1853, he completed his law degree and became a trainee at the Court of Appeals in Turku.

Adolf von Becker | Something for the Cat, 1882 | Paris Salon, 1882 | Finnish National Gallery

Tomaso Albinoni | Oboe concerto in D minor op. 9

"Oboe Concerto in D minor" has long been regarded as one of the finest concertos composed for the instrument.

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1671-1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era.

His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos.

Samuel Scott | London, a view of the Thames and Old Westminster Bridge looking towards Westminster Abbey

Vincenzo Migliaro | Mercato del pesce a Porta Capuana, 1893

Vincenzo Migliaro (1858-1938) was an Italian painter born in Naples.

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.