Giovanni Bellini: Life and works

Monday July 11th, 2016 , Artists and Works

GIOVANNI BELLINI. LIFE AND WORKS

Giovanni Bellini. If you were born in a family of famous artists whose relationships with cultural world are intense, your creativity maybe would be inhibited otherwise stimulated in order to do more.
Giovanni Bellini was born and grew up in a family that concerning incentives there weren’t comparison.
From his father Jacopo to his brother Gentile, to his brother-in-law Andrea Mantegna, you can’t say that inspirations lacked in Giovanni’s life, and he tried to assimilate the best from them.

Giovanni Bellini’s artistic career was long and successful.
He constantly updated his style, and absorbed the novelties, but without reneging his point of reference, which was also his starting point: the Venetian painting.
In this post I will retrace the life and the works of Giovanni Bellini.

Eadweard Muybridge: photography becomes cinema

Tuesday July 5th, 2016 , Artists and Works

EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE: PHOTOGRAPHY BECOMES CINEMA

Eadweard Muybridge. Italy will host an exhibition dedicated to the photographer who captured and reproduced movement, anticipating the birth of cinema.
The exhibition organized by the Gruppo Credito Valtellina Gallery will be on view from May 19^th to October 1^st 2016 and admission will be free.
The exhibition will display the artistic production of one of the pioneers of cinema, and will feature a contemporary reconstruction of the set Eadweard Muybridge used to take shots in sequence.

Don’t you know Eadweard Muybridge and don’t you know why he was so important?
I’ll explain in this post.

Works by Canova: the most beautiful and the most important ones

Monday July 4th, 2016 , Artists and Works

Antonio Canova, Maddalena penitente (1809)

WORKS BY CANOVA: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND THE MOST IMPORTANT ONES

Works by Canova. A photo gallery dedicated to Antonio Canova.
The main works by one of the main neoclassical artists and the last great Italian artist at European level, as well.

Canova’s white marble statues are characterized by harmony and refinement and they represent the universal idea of beauty.
The subjects of his sculptures are two: mythological allegories and funerary monuments.

Bartolomeo Vivarini: Biography

Monday June 27th, 2016 , Artists and Works

Bartolomeo Vivarini, Madonna col Bambino e Santi, 1465, Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli.

BARTOLOMEO VIVARINI

Bartolomeo Vivarini was born in Venice around 1430.
He was Antonio Vivarini’s younger brother (Read also the Biography of Antonio Vivarini) and they worked together for a series of polyptyches during 1450s.

Bartolomeo introduced a lot of new elements in painting, such as a careful attention to the features of faces of his characters, depicted like caricatures, and clear outlines of the figures.

Antonio Canova, life and works

Monday June 20th, 2016 , Artists and Works

ANTONIO CANOVA, LIFE AND WORKS

Antonio Canova was born in Possagno, near Treviso, on November 1^st 1757.
Antonio’s father was a stonecutter and his paternal grandfather led him into the art of sculpting.
Canova soon showed great talent, and was sent to Venice where he spent some time at the most important sculptures’ studios, and created his first works.

Among these works there’s Dedalo e Icaro (Dedalus and Icarus) I’ve showed as his early masterpiece. Thanks to this sculpture, Canova managed to earn money to go to Rome in order to complete his training, and become the most important sculpture of his time.