Donato Bramante, Cristo alla colonna.
DONATO BRAMANTE: ARCHITECT AND PAINTER
Donato Bramante (1444-1514) was one of the most important architects and painters of the Renaissance, and it seems that he studied in Urbino and was a collaborator of Piero della Francesca.
Little is known about Bramante’s life and his early years, but for certain he established himself on the 16th-century artistic scene by bringing back to the top both architecture and classical art.
Bridget Riley, born in London in 1931, was the first woman artist to win the International Prize for Painting when she represented Britain at the 34th Venice Biennale in 1968.
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One of the leading figures of Op Art, Riley explores optical phenomena through the juxtaposition of colored lines or circles.
Tamara de Lempicka lived a long, adventurous and uncommon life.
She was an over- the-top person: transgression and glamour were the central features of her life and her works.
She lived across two continents; her bisexuality became public; she got married twice, obtaining two different noble titles; she was a model, but above all she was an artist.
5 things to know about Tamara de Lempicka.
Vivian Maier. Image source: Monza Reale.com
Vivian Maier. Some people were born in the right place at the right time, like Robert Mapplethorpe; other people are in the right place but don’t have the chance to draw attention to themselves; still other people don’t care about the way to draw attention to themselves and their talent is consigned to oblivion.
That was Vivian Maier’s destiny, the American nanny who has fascinated me, but also the world, due to her mysterious story but also because she was, unbeknown to her, the pioneer of street photography.
Polittico ella Misericordia, dettaglio con autoritratto di Piero della Francesca. Image source: Valtiberina Toscana Turismo.it
Piero della Francesca, one of the greatest 15th century Italian artists, a pioneer of the Italian Renaissance who had significant influence in the development of Italian painting.
Piero della Francesca spending most of his life at the most important Courts in Central and Adriatic Italy.
Among the wide number of Italian Courts, a special place was occupied by Urbino. A small centre in the hills of the Apennines inland, cleverly turned by Duke Federico da Montefeltro into one of the most lively centres of the Renaissance, Urbino gradually become the capital of the intellectual and mathematic orientation of the arts.
5 things to know about Piero della Francesca.
