Pellizza da Volpedo | Spring Idyll / Girotondo, 1906

"Spring Idyll" is an oil on canvas created in 1906 by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (Italian Neo-Impressionist painter, 1868-1907).

The painting, measuring Ø 101 cm, is part of the collection of the GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan.

This is the second version - left incomplete by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and then finished by the painter Angelo Barabino (1883-1950) - of another canvas that was long considered lost and then reappeared for auction at Sotheby's in London in 1980, having been kept in a private collection in England for almost 40 years.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo | Idillio campestre nei prati della pieve a Volpedo (Il girotondo), 1906 | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano

Sibilla Aleramo | Son tanto brava / I'm so good..

Sibilla Aleramo (born Marta Felicina Faccio; 14 August 1876 - 13 January 1960) was an Italian feminist writer and poet known for her autobiographical depictions of life as a woman in late 19th century Italy.

I am so good all day long.

I understand, I accept, I do not weep.

I almost learn to be proud as if I were a man.

But, at the first quiver of violet in the sky

all daytime strength vanishes.

Man Ray | A l'heure de l'observatoire, les Amoureux, 1970

Giuseppe Molteni | Romantic painter

Giuseppe Molteni (1800-1867) was an Italian painter.

Forced to abandon his studies at the Brera Academy for financial reasons, Molteni took up the restoration of ancient paintings as a pupil of Giuseppe Guizzardi in Bologna.

On his return to Milan, he soon became one of the most sought-after restorers of the day, a consultant to the Louvre and the British Museum as well as the leading collectors and connoisseurs in Milan and Europe as a whole.

Heinz Geilfus | Repairing Hearts

Heinz Geilfus (born Johannes Karl Heinrich Geilfus on November 25, 1890 in Gießen - died January 25, 1956 in Bad Nauheim) was a German commercial artist, cartoonist and hunting painter.

Johannes Karl Heinrich "Heinz" Geilfus was born in late November 1890 as the son of the justice secretary Otto Geilfus and his wife Minna (née Rühl) in Gießen.

He grew up with his younger brother August and attended secondary school in Gießen.

He then completed a commercial apprenticeship and training as a technical draftsman.

Joseph Christian Leyendecker | Art Nouveau illustrator

German-American illustrator Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951) was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the U.S.

He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and paintings for hundreds of posters, books, advertisements, and magazine covers and stories.

He is best known for his 80 covers for Collier's Weekly, 322 covers for The Saturday Evening Post, and advertising illustrations for B. Kuppenheimer men's clothing and Arrow brand shirts and detachable collars.

He was one of the few known reportedly gay artists working in the early-twentieth century U.S.

Elenco dei 426 articoli pubblicati da Tutt'Art@ durante il 2024

Questa raccolta inizia con l'ultimo articolo del 2024: "When was it decided that January 1st is the new year?" / "Quando è stato deciso che il 1° gennaio diventasse il primo giorno dell'anno?", pubblicato il 31 Dicembre 2024 e finisce con l'articolo dedicato al pittore impressionista Olandese René Jansen (1956-2022).

When was it decided that January 1st is the new year? 2024-12-31
Kike Meana, 1969 | Figurative painter 2024-12-29
Marlène Dietrich and Édith Piaf 2024-12-29
Vincent Van Gogh | Butterflies series2024-12-28

José Luis Corella, 1959 | Classical realism painter

Beethoven | Heiligenstadt Testament, 1802

Il Testamento di Heiligenstadt è una lettera manoscritta del musicista tedesco Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) indirizzata ai suoi fratelli Kaspar Karl e Nikolaus Johann, scritta il 6 ottobre 1802 a Heiligenstadt, un sobborgo di Vienna, dove il compositore aveva la residenza.

A soli 32 anni, Beethoven intuisce che la sua sordità sarà irreversibile.

I primi sintomi erano stati già individuati dal grande compositore tedesco nel 1796, cioè a 26 anni.

Joseph Karl Stieler | Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis, 1820

Seven Colours of the Rainbow

A rainbow is an optical phenomenon caused by refraction, internal reflection and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a continuous spectrum of light appearing in the sky.

The rainbow takes the form of a multicoloured circular arc.

Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section of sky directly opposite the Sun.

Rainbows can be caused by many forms of airborne water.

These include not only rain, but also mist, spray, and airborne dew.

Jean-Léon Gérôme | La République, 1848 | Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais

Eastman Johnson | Co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) was an American painter and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance.

Best known for his Genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters whom he studied while living in The Hague, and he was even known as The American Rembrandt in his day.

Guy Hoff (1889-1962)

Born in Rochester, New York and trained at the Art School of the Albright Gallery in Buffalo and the Art Students League in New York City, Guy Hoff (1889-1962) is known for his cover pages for The Saturday Evening Post, McCall's and Ladies Home, among others, which often star young, beautiful women.

Guy Hoff is among the American painters who also used their talent to design illustrations for books, magazines and newspapers during the so-called 'Golden Age of American Illustration'.

Giovanni Boldini | Treccia bionda / Blonde Braid, 1891

Giovanni Boldini | Blond Braid, 1891

Based on its messy and impulsive pictorial style, "Treccia bionda" is generally dated to the beginning of the 1890s, by which point Giovanni Boldini (1842 -1931) had already moved to Paris.

In addition to serving as an example of Impressionist painting from that time, the faintness of the strokes showcases an in-depth knowledge of Frans Hals' chiaroscuro technique; it seems that Boldini may have become close with him during a trip to Amsterdam in 1876.

Unlike many of the artist's female portraits, in which the entire figure functions as a means of showcasing all the details of the protagonists' elegant and elaborate dresses, this painting limits the appearance of the figure to the bust.

Giovanni Boldini | Treccia bionda, 1891 (detail) | GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano

Skagen painters | Art History and Sitemap

The Skagen Painters (Danish: Skagensmalerne) were a group of Scandinavian artists who gathered in the village of Skagen, the northernmost part of Denmark, from the late 1870s until the turn of the century.

Skagen was a summer destination whose scenic nature, local milieu and social community attracted northern artists to paint en plein air, emulating the French Impressionists - though members of the Skagen colony were also influenced by Realist movements such as the Barbizon school.

They broke away from the rather rigid traditions of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, espousing the latest trends that they had learned in Paris.

Peder Severin Krøyer | Summer Evening at Skagen Beach - The Artist and his Wife, 1899 | Hirschsprung Collection

When was it decided that January 1st is the new year?

The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner.

In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 (New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve).

This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC).

Vincent Van Gogh | Butterflies series

Butterflies is a series paintings made by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 and 1890.

Van Gogh made at least four paintings of butterflies and one of a moth.

The metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly was symbolic to Van Gogh of men and women's capability for transformation.

Vincent van Gogh | Butterflies and Poppies | Van Gogh Museum

Giuseppe De Nittis | Vita ed opere

De Nittis Giuseppe (1846-1884) - Nacque a Barletta (Bari) il 25 febbr. 1846, da Raffaele e da Teresa Buracchia. Visse gli anni della sua prima giovinezza nella città natale con i fratelli, dopo la morte di entrambi i genitori.

Compiuti i primi studi con G. B. Calò e con V. Dattoli, iniziò a dipingere trovando ispirazione nella natura, con quell'istintiva gioia e dedizione che saranno le doti primarie del suo operare.

Quindicenne, entrò all'istituto delle belle arti di Napoli, dove studiò sotto la guida di G. Smargiassi e di G. Mancinelli.

Così parlò Zarathustra | Nietzsche, 1885

Così parlò Zarathustra

Parte seconda | Il canto notturno

È notte: solo ora si svegliano tutti i canti degli amanti. E anche la mia anima è il canto di un amante.

Qualcosa di insaziato, insaziabile è in me; che vuole farsi sentire. È in me un desiderio d'amore, che parla il linguaggio dell'amore.

Io sono luce: ah, fossi notte! Ma questa è la mia solitudine, che io sono cinto di luce.

Ah, fossi io oscuro e notturno! Come vorrei attaccarmi alle mammelle della luce!

Caspar David Friedrich | Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 | Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Rabindranath Tagore | Dove la mente è senza paura / Where the mind is without fear

"Dove la mente è senza paura" è una poesia scritta dal premio Nobel (1913) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) prima dell'indipendenza dell'India.

Rappresenta la visione di Tagore di una India nuova e risvegliata.

La poesia originale fu pubblicata nel 1910 e fu inclusa nella raccolta di poesie Gitanjali del 1910.

"Dove la mente è senza paura" è la 35a poesia di Gitanjali ed una delle poesie di Tagore più antologizzate.

Rabindranath Tagore | Dove la mente è senza paura

Dove la mente non è afflitta dalla paura e il capo è tenuto alto,

Dove la conoscenza è libera.

Dove il mondo non si è infranto

in frammenti delimitati da angusti muri domestici.

René Magritte

Charles Dickens | Mr. Pickwick's Christmas

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers, 1836) is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens.

The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise.

The Pickwick Papers was published in 19 issues over 20 months, and it popularised serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings.

Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers, 1836

Chapter 28

And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment.

How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilised nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

How many old recollections, and how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken!

Charles Dickens illustrated by Roberto Innocenti (Italian, 1940)

Christmas with Jenny Nyström

Jenny Eugenia Nyström (1854-1946) was a painter and illustrator mainly known as the creator of the Swedish image of the jultomte on Christmas cards and magazine covers, thus linking the Swedish version of Santa Claus to the gnomes and tomtar of Scandinavian folklore.

Her father was a school teacher and piano teacher, and also the cantor of the Kalmar Castle Church.

When Jenny Nyström was eight years old, the family moved to Gothenburg, where her father had found a better paying teaching job.

Théophile Deyrolle | Genre painter

Théophile-Louis Deyrolle (16 December 1844, Paris - 14 December 1923, Concarneau) was a French painter, illustrator and ceramicist.

He came from a family of entomologists and naturalists who owned a well-known taxidermy shop in Paris.

Achille and Émile Deyrolle were among his relatives.

Originally, he studied architecture at the École des Beaux-arts.

While working for Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, he met Alfred Guillou who convinced him to give up architecture for painting.