Ippolito Caffi, tra Venezia e l’Oriente

Arte e vita di Ippolito Caffi

Dai bagliori delle vedute al clamore delle battaglie.

Sarà a Roma, dove giunge nel 1832 - abbandonato il "soffocante" ambiente dell’Accademia di Venezia che frequentava dal ’27 - che Caffi imbocca definitivamente la strada del vedutismo raggiungendo ben presto un’autonomia creativa che lo porta a rapido e sicuro successo.

Yarek Godfrey | Figurative painter

Yarek Godfrey (real name Jaroslaw Pawel Nowicki, 1957-2014) was a Polish artist of French, British and Austrian origins.

Godfrey received numerous awards for his work: The Gold Medal of the XXXVIII Salon of Young Artists, Grand Palais, Paris, 1987; Grand Prix of the XXVI International Salon of Art Côte d'Azur, Cannes, 1990.

He presented his works at numerous group and solo exhibitions, primarily in the United States and France, but also in Belgium, Monaco and Italy.

Pavel Mitkov, 1977 | Romance in Paris

Pavel Mitkov is a contemporary Bulgarian painter who was born in Sofia, is treated as one of best selling living painters in the country.

Extremely talented, his philosophy of life pertains to wisdom unusual for his young age.

The paintings of Pavel Mitkov reflect not only his natural artistic talent, but also his passion for painting.

Tamara de Lempicka | The Baroness with a Brush

Born Maria Gorska in Warsaw, Poland (then a sovereign state of Russia), Tamara de Łempicka (1898-1980) has come to be recognized both by her epithet, "Baroness with a Brush", and as icon of the Roaring Twenties.

As the daughter of wealthy parents, she was sent to Lausanne, Switzerland, to attend boarding school as a child - an experience she despised.

During the summer of one of her final years in Lausanne, however, her grandmother took her on a tour of Italy, where she first witnessed the work of Old Masters, an encounter that would ultimately inspire her life-long passion for art.

Galleria Ny Carslberg Glyptotek

Appassionato di storia ed arte, Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914) riuscì a mettere insieme una straordinaria collezione di opere e manufatti grazie agli ingenti profitti del suo birrificio.

Questa collezione, donata alle amministrazioni pubbliche nel 1888, rappresenta il nucleo originario dell’attuale museo.

Una decina d’anni dopo Jacobsen fece poi un’altra cospicua donazione di reperti antichi e la galleria si ampliò ulteriormente, continuando poi ad espandersi negli anni successivi.

Ada Breedveld, 1944 | Naïve painter

Ada Breedveld was born in The Netherlands, in Dordrecht and brought up in Rotterdam.

She has lived and worked in Amsterdam since 1983.

Ada is a self-taught artist. Since childhood, it has been her lifelong aspiration to become an artist.

Perseverance paid off and her work is now recognized in the world of Art Naïf.

Paul Cézanne: "Esiste una sola maestra: la Natura!"

Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), così come gli altri pittori vissuti durante gli ultimi decenni dell'Ottocento, all'inizio della sua carriera non esitò a far riferimento alla rivoluzione impressionista.

Gli alfieri dell'Impressionismo - pensiamo a Monet e al primo Renoir - per ritrarre la realtà in maniera più realistica, si affidavano ai fenomeni percettivi della luce e del colore, rapportandosi a quello che volevano dipingere in maniera soggettiva, ovvero basandosi esclusivamente sull'impressione fuggevolissima e irripetibile suscitata nei loro sensi.