What are Goya’s paintings and where can you admire them?
Francisco Goya was the most important Spanish artist after Velázquez and the most famous before Picasso.
Just visionary and daring enough to create modern paintings that denounce the horrors of war.
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Leonardo Da Vinci, Annunciation – Uffizi Gallery
To Leonardo painting is a mental act, a way to understand reality and nature. In Annunciation by Leonardo, painted when the artist was probably in his early twenties, you can already see its interest in nature and curiosity about phenomena of the world that Renaissance man was trying to understand.
In this post you’ll discover a masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the Uffizi Gallery.
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There’s a painting that more than others comes to my mind when I listen to any Mozart’s melody. It’s the Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona, which was painted by a Veronese artist during the musician’s first stay in Verona.
In this post you’ll discover this famous portrait.
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 13 in Verona
Degas, The Absinthe (1875-1876)
Once someone asked me what’s beautiful and charming about Degas’s Absinthe. Actually, it’s a painting that doesn’t make you happy; rather, to me, has always had a subheading: “depression”.
No, Degas’s Abisinthe is not beautiful, it’s amazing.
It’s a painting depicting with photographic accuracy a scene that anyone who was in Paris at the end of the 19th century could see. However, Degas didn’t portray only a moment, but he rather told a story, in which it’s easy to imagine feelings and thought of the two protagonists.
In this post you’ll discover one of Edgar Degas’s most intense works.
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A post dedicated to Degas’s most beautiful works and where to find them.
Degas was basically a solitary artist. He had a difficult character, he was introverted, and his life was completely devoted to art.
He is famous for the dancers he depicted in many paintings, but well-known also for his sculptures.
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