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Raphael’s life was short but totally devoted to art.
He was a highly talented artist but he had an aptitude for business, in fact he managed his workshop like a firm hiring dozens of assistants able to create any kind of works.
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Raphael, life and works: 5 things to know
When I decided to write a post about the movies you must see to know the lives of the artists, I would never have imagined that I’d be spoilt for choice.
After writing a post dedicated to Romantic movies: the most beautiful love declarations in movies, now I’ll make a list of the movies you must see, that is the most beautiful and latest films, released from 2000 onwards just to make it clear, which depict the lives of the most famous artists.
Movies you must see
If you had to give the story between Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel a title, it would probably be “Beauty and the Beast”.
When they met he was already a famous sculptor, he was more than 40 years old, lame, short and also short-sighted.
Camille, instead, was a beautiful 18-year-old girl who had arrived in Paris in the 1880s from northern France with a head full of dreams.
She was the pupil, he was the master.
Eventually they became lovers, and the works they created seem to be the representation of their tumultuous love.
Vincent Van Gogh was a mad and visionary painter.
Symbol of the tormented artist who mixes genius with madness, his life was a race towards self-destruction, full of turns of events and violence, but also genial artworks ignored by his contemporaries and considered masterpieces by all those who came after him.
There are a little more than 800 artworks by Van Gogh left, admired by scholars and adored by visitors of the museums housing them.
In this post you’ll find 5 things to know about Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent van Gogh life and works e opere: 5 things to know
Pauline Bonaparte was Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister and the wife of Prince Camillo Borghese. Her name is famous because she was portrayed as Venus by Antonio Canova, who made her splendid and immortal.
The whiteness of the marble and the perfection of each detail of this statue made Canova’s Pauline Bonaparte one of the most captivating works of art ever.
In this post I’ll explain who Pauline Bonaparte was, why Canova portrayed her as Venus, and where the statue is located.
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