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Qualche tempo fa cercando in rete alcune opere di pubblico dominio, mi sono imbattuto in una Collezione di disegni e fumetti di John Leech, vignettista inglese vissuto nel XIX secolo. Le sue opere m……続きを見る

My first duty this evening is to ask your pardon for the ambiguity of title under which the subject of lecture has been announced: for indeed I am not going to talk of kings, known as regnant, nor o……続きを見る

Le piante medicinali raffigurate sugli stipiti delle porte del Battistero fiorentino sono lo spunto per un affascinate viaggio che, passando dalla simbologia e dalla pratica terapeutica, esplora buo……続きを見る

Almanacco 2016: Artisti de La Ruota della Fortuna è l'almanacco che raccoglie 23 eventi d'arte di 160 artisti e amanti dell'arte soci dell'associazione culturale La Ruota della Fortuna di Cagliari. ……続きを見る

Amongst the vestiges of antiquity which abound in this country, are the visible memorials of those nations which have succeeded one another in the occupancy of this island. To the age of our Celtic ……続きを見る

Fuseli was born in 1741 in Zurich. His father, Johann Caspar Fussli, was a painter and writer who pressured him into studying theology and becoming a Zwinglian minister. After rejecting the ministry……続きを見る

Vincent van Gogh practiced a variety of occupations, including that of an art dealer and pastor, before deciding to become a painter at the age of 27. During his artistic career, which lasted 10 yea……続きを見る

"Di tanto in tanto i Testimoni di Geova passano nell'illustrarmi la Bibbia nella loro sbagliata maniera. Leggo la Bibbia quasi tutti i giorni, il libro insegna chiaramente l'Ateismo. In logica di pe……続きを見る

inPRIMERE l'idea - in edizione multilingua italiano/inglese - racconta la preistoria, la storia ed il futuro nella comunicazione attraverso l'ex libris: quel contrassegno, impresso o stampato, usato……続きを見る

Daniela no es una poeta o una artista, sino una madre a tiempo completo. Cuando era una niña, ya sentía el deseo de comunicar sus sentimientos con dibujos y pequeñas composiciones. Este libro nace d……続きを見る

50 curiosità su uno dei più celebri musei del mondo. I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo 続きを見る

Sir Peter Lely (1618 – 1680) was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court. Lely was born Pieter van der Fae……続きを見る

It is a unique story, that of byssus; filaments produced by the largest mollusc in the Mediterranean, and Chiara Vigo, Sardinian from Sant'Antioco (Italy) and last Master left in the world capable o……続きを見る

William Blake was English artist, draughtsman, engraver, philosopher, and poet, one of the most remarkable figures of the Romantic period. In art as in life Blake was an individualist who made a pri……続きを見る

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788) was an English portrait and landscape artist, the most versatile English painter of the 18th century. He was the most inventive and original, always prepared to exp……続きを見る

La presentazione del prof. Italo Zannier per l'inaugurazione della mostra " Al Volo " presso il Centro Candiani a Mestre (Ve) Viviamo una nuova fase dell’Era dell’Iconismo; in parole povere, siamo n……続きを見る

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 – 1666), best known as Guercino, or Il Guercino, was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from the region of Emilia, and active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorou……続きを見る

William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who have been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ……続きを見る

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Ros……続きを見る

Paul Delaroche (1797 – 1856) was a French painter who achieved his greater successes painting history. He became famous in Europe for his melodramatic scenes that often portrayed subjects from Engli……続きを見る

Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Dutch Renaissance painter and printmaker from Brabant, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so called genre painting). He received the nickname "Peasant Bruege……続きを見る

Francis Barlow (c. 1626 – 1704) was an English painter, etcher, and draughtsman, mainly of animal subjects, known as ‘the father of British sporting painting’. He painted numerous large canvases for……続きを見る

Francesco Allegrini da Gubbio (1587–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His children, Flaminio and Angelica Allegrini were also painters. Francesco Allegrini was admired as a battle ……続きを見る

Benedetto Antelami, misterioso artista affiliato a una corporazione di costruttori che aveva custodito il retaggio dei collegia fabrorum romani, ha lasciato nel Battistero di Parma una testimonianza……続きを見る

No art manifestation is really isolated. However new it may seem, it is always based upon the previous epochs. The true masters do not give lessons, because art cannot be taught, but they set the ex……続きを見る

Paul Cézanne forms the connection linking late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new contour of Cubism. Matisse and Picasso together recognize that "Cezanne is the father of al……続きを見る

William Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color, and e……続きを見る

George Frederic Watts, RA (1817 – 1904) was an English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." Watts became famous in his lifetime……続きを見る

International diplomat, savvy businessman, devout Catholic, fluent in six languages, an intellectual who counted Europe's finest scholars among his friends, Peter Paul Rubens were always first a pai……続きを見る

John Constable, RA (1776 – 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home ー now known as "……続きを見る