William-Adolphe Bouguereau | The Mimosa Flower, 1899

In February 1899, the French🎨 painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)🎨 and his wife travelled with their son Paul to Menton, a small town on the French Riviera.

The journey was on the advice of Paul's doctors, who hoped the sea air would improve his recently diagnosed tuberculosis.

Paul (then 30) left behind his law practice, and Bouguereau put his painting aside as they settled into the elegant Hôtel des Îles Britanniques.

Though initially planned to last a month, the trip was extended week by week, and Bouguereau grew anxious to paint, writing to a friend "I finally found a room on the north side of the hotel and a few little models, and set to work" (as quoted from a letter dated March 1, 1899 in Bartoli, p. 394).

Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) Landscape painter

Charles Partridge Adams (January 12, 1858 - October 14, 1942) was a largely self-taught American🎨 landscape artist who painted primarily in Colorado, and secondarily in California. Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and a few in Louisiana, the East Coast and Europe.

Adams was born in Franklin, Massachusetts; his family moved to Denver in 1876. In 1877 he began work in the Chain and Hardy bookstore in Denver, and received lessons from Helen Henderson Chain, an artist who had studied with George Inness🎨.

In 1885 he traveled to the East Coast and visited the studios of George Inness and Worthington Whittredge, and in 1888 he traveled to California and visited the studios of William Keith and Thomas Hill.

Thomas Edwin Mostyn | Jewels

Born in Liverpool and raised in Manchester, Tom Edwin Mostyn R.O.I., R.W.A., R.C.A. (1864-1930), the son of the artist Edwin Mostyn, studied at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

He had his first local exhibition in 1880, and was showing at the Royal Academy (R.A.) by the age of 29.

He is mainly recognized for his romantic garden scenes, although his style was so eclectic throughout his career that it is hard to believe that the same artist created all of his paintings.

Salvador Dalì | Gli Autoritratti

Salvador Dalì iniziò molto presto a dipingere autoritratti.

In quelli realizzati durante l'adolescenza, Dalí si rappresenta con un atteggiamento distante nei confronti dei suoi compagni, ma allo stesso tempo desideroso di incidere su di loro (o provocarli) e sul pubblico in generale.

Alda Merini | Autobiografia in versi e frasi

Victor Nizovtsev

▻ "Io vivo sempre al buio, ma nei miei pensieri brilla sempre un sole".

▻ "Domandano tutti come si fa a scrivere un libro: si va vicino a Dio e gli si dice: feconda la mia mente, mettiti nel mio cuore e portami via dagli altri, rapiscimi".

Lorenzo di Credi (1458-1537)

Lorenzo di Credi, Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo (Firenze, 1459/1460-1537), è stato un pittore Italiano, allievo del Verrocchio che lo nominò suo erede, resse la bottega di quest'ultimo, quando era impegnato a Venezia nella statua equestre del Colleoni e ne riportò a Firenze la salma da Venezia dove il Verrocchio era morto nel 1488.

La sua formazione avvenne nella bottega del Verrocchio da cui derivò lo stile finito costruito con linee incisive e precise, modi che influenzarono il suo condiscepolo Leonardo, successivamente le parti si scambiarono e fu Lorenzo ad accogliere lo sfumato e le sottilissime velature di Leonardo.

Per la bottega eseguì la Madonna di Piazza nel Duomo di Pistoia, opera commissionata al Verrocchio, completata con l'aiuto di altri allievi tra cui Perugino e forse Leonardo da Vinci (del quale si ipotizza la paternità della tavoletta della predella raffigurante l'Annunciazione, spesso attribuita però allo stesso Lorenzo).

Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531-1588) Renaissance painter

Sánchez Coello, Alonso (Benifairó del Valls, Valencia - Spain, 1531/32 - Madrid -Spain, 1588) is a fundamental figure in the history of Spanish painting🎨.

He was the first to bring portraiture to the peninsula, where he followed the model developed by Anthonis Mor in likenesses of the Habsburg family.

Some of his paintings were included in the most important portrait galleries developed during the reign of Philip II, including those at the El Pardo and Alcázar Palaces, both sadly lost to fires in 1604 and 1734, respectively.

Today, his works hang in the Museo del Prado, in Spain’s royal foundations, including the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales and in museums and collections in Austria and Bohemia.