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
Salvatore Quasimodo | Estate / Summer
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.
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