Ada Negri | Autumn rain's soothing melody, 1936

Tonight I heard, between waking and

slumber, a song

soft, hushed, and yet vast just as

the world is vast; and I seemed in sleep

to be sailing on a boat with no oars

on grey seas, inside a blanket of rain.

William Butler Yeats | Non dare mai tutto il tuo cuore / Never give all the heart, 1904

Never give all the heart, for love

Will hardly seem worth thinking of

To passionate women if it seem

Certain, and they never dream

That it fades out from kiss to kiss;

For everything that’s lovely is

But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.

Frida Kahlo | The wounded deer, 1946

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Belle Époque painter

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (October 4, 1859 - November 8, 1933) was a celebrated Italian Realist painter and portraitist.

Renowned as the definitive painter of the Belle Époque, Corcos became famous for his highly refined, realistic portraits of European nobility, monarchs, and the upper-middle class bourgeois.

He was particularly unmatched in capturing the essence, psychology, and evolving independence of women during the turn of the 20th century.

Giacomo Leopardi | Night-song of a wandering shepherd of Asia, 1829-1830

Around the end of 1829 or the first months of 1830, Giacomo Leopardi composed the Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia / Night-time chant of a wandering Asian sheep-herder.

In writing this piece, Leopardi drew inspiration from the reading of Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara fait en 1820, by the Russian baron Meyendorff, in which the baron tells of how certain sheep-herders of central Asia belonging to the Kirghiz population practiced a sort of ritual chant consisting of long and sweet strophes directed at the full moon.

Samuel Palmer | Cornfield by Moonlight, with the evening star, 1830 | British Museum

Emily Dickinson | La natura usa poco il Giallo / Nature rarer uses Yellow, 1865

La Natura usa il Giallo più raramente

Di ogni altra Tinta -

Lo serba tutto per i Tramonti

Prodiga d’Azzurro

Camille Claudel, l'ossessione di Rodin: "Mia feroce amica.."

"Mia feroce amica"...

Inizia così il grido d'amore disperato di Rodin a Camille Claudel nei primi anni della loro relazione.

Rodin fu presto affascinato da questa allieva che divenne sua assistente, amante e musa, mentre Camille Claudel, esteriormente è rimasta in completo controllo dei suoi sentimenti.

Consumato e tormentato da un amore ossessivo, lui la implora - "in ginocchio" - per facilitare la sua sofferenza dall'inizio alla fine di questa lettera, scritta in uno stile confuso, con la sintassi errata ed ortografia imperfetta.

Paul Éluard | Ti amo / Je t'aime, 1951

T'amo per tutte le donne

che non ho conosciuto.

T'amo per tutte le stagioni

che non ho vissuto, per l'odore

d'altomare e l'odore del pane

fresco, per la neve che si

scioglie per i primi fiori

per gli animali puri che

l'uomo non spaventa.

T'amo per amare.

Auguste Rodin | L'Addio, 1898

L'Addio (L'Adieu / The Farewell) è una celebre scultura realizzata da Auguste Rodin nel 1898.

L'opera è profondamente legata alla tormentata e dolorosa storia d'amore tra Rodin e l'artista Camille Claudel.

Per la composizione del volto, infatti, lo scultore ha riutilizzato un calco della testa di Camille con i capelli corti (risalente al 1884), aggiungendo davanti al viso due mani indipendenti e giunte, che evocano un senso di separazione, malinconia ed, appunto, un ultimo addio.

Auguste Rodin | L'Adieu /Farewell, 1898 | Musée Rodin, Paris

Rainer Maria Rilke | Io temo tanto la parola degli uomini / I am so afraid of people's words, 1898

Io temo tanto la parola degli uomini.

Dicono tutto sempre cosí chiaro:

questo si chiama cane e quello casa,

e qui è l'inizio e là è la fine.

Auguste Rodin | Detail from The Gates of Hell, 1890

Ernst Barlach, lo scultore censurato dai nazisti

Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) è stato uno dei più importanti scultori, grafici e scrittori Tedesci, appartenente al movimento Espressionista.

Barlach nacque a Wedel nella Germania settentrionale, il più anziano di quattro figli della coppia formata da Johanna Luise Barlach e dal dottore Georg Barlach.

Frequentò i primi corsi di studio a Ratzeburg.

Restò orfano di padre durante questo periodo, nel 1884.

Franz Marc: "Art is nothing but the expression of our dream"!

👉 "Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two".

👉 "Il blu rappresenta il principio maschile, austero e spirituale. Il giallo il principio femminile, gentile, allegro e sensuale. Il rosso è materia, brutale e pesante, ed è sempre il colore che deve essere combattuto e sconfitto dagli altri due".

Oswald Achenbach | Düsseldorf school of painting

Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) was a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe.

Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century.

The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).

Eliseu Visconti | Impressionist / Art Nouveau painter

Eliseu Visconti (born Eliseo d'Angelo; July 30, 1866 – October 15, 1944) was an Italian-born Brazilian painter, designer, and educator widely celebrated for introducing Impressionism and Art Nouveau to Brazil.

Spanning a highly transitional era between academic traditions and early modernism, he remains one of the most versatile and influential visual artists in Brazilian history.

He entered in 1884 the Liceu de Artes e Ofícios do Rio de Janeiro, where studied under Victor Meireles.

Julien Stappers | Still life with Flowers painter

Julien Stappers (1875-1960) was an Belgian flower painter, celebrated for his radiant and technically superb floral still lifes.

Part of the traditional Belgian school, his signature style is defined by a cool, delicate palette and a highly diffusive, luminous management of light that gives his floral arrangements an energetic yet soothing quality.

Training at the The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp in Juliaan De Vriendt (1894-1899) and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp (1899-1901). First exhibition in 1903.

A presentation to the "Rubens" Gallery in Brussels in 1959 and 1960, the "Jordaens" gallery in Ghent in 1957, 1959 and 1960.

Francesco Gioli | Macchiaioli painter

Francesco Gioli (June 29, 1846 - February 4, 1922) was a prominent Italian painter associated with the Macchiaioli movement and Tuscan Naturalism.

Born into a wealthy family in San Frediano a Settimo (Pisa), he became celebrated for his elegant depictions of rural Tuscan life, atmospheric landscapes and intimate portraits.

Gioli initially trained under academic masters like Antonio Ciseri and Enrico Pollastrini, starting his career with traditional historical paintings.

Franz Richard Unterberger | Romantic painter of waterscapes

Austrian painter Franz Richard Unterberger (1838-1902), a Romantic style painter of waterscapes, landscapes, architecture and Genre, was born in Innsbruck, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, on 15th August 1838, one of eleven children of a wealthy bourgeois family.

He decided to pursue a career as an artist at a relatively young age and enrolled in the Academy in Munich.

Here he studied with Albert Zimmerman (1808-1888) a professor and landscape painter at the Academy and with Julius Lange (1817-1878).

Love Letter from Rodin to Camille Claudel, 1886: "My ferocious friend.."

"My ferocious friend".... "

Thus begins Rodin’s desperate cry of love to Camille Claudel in the early years of their relationship.

Rodin was soon captivated by this pupil who became his assistant, mistress and muse, while Claudel outwardly remained in complete control of her feelings.

Consumed and tormented by an obsessive love, he implores her - “on his knees” - to ease his suffering from beginning to end of this letter, written in a muddled style, with erroneous syntax and imperfect spelling.

Vilhelm Hammershøi | Interior painter

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.

In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honour.

Vilhelm Hammershøi was born iin Copenhagen, Denmark.

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Rainer Maria Rilke / Rodin | Love Song, 1907

How shall I hold my soul and yet not touch

It with your own? How shall I ever place

It clear of you on anything beyond?

Oh gladly I would stow it next to such

Things in the darkness as are never found

Down in an alien and silent space

That does not resonate when you resound.

Auguste Rodin - Fugit Amor, 1881

Rainer Maria Rilke | La sera / The evening

Come una indefinibile fata d'ombre...

Vien da lungi la Sera, camminando

per l'abetaia tacita e nevosa.

Johan August Malmström (1829-1901) | Dancing Fairies, 1866