Attilio Simonetti | Neo-Pompeian painter

Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925) was an Italian painter and Antiquarian.

He was born and resided mainly in Rome: a son of Francesco, a Roman jeweler and engraver, and Carolina née Raffaeli, from a family of mosaicists.

He showed a talent for art at an early age, which brought him to the attention of a family friend, the painter Marià Fortuny.

At the age of sixteen, he began his formal studies.

Vincenzo Capobianchi | Neo-Pompeian painter

Vincenzo Capobianchi or Capobianchi (1836-1928) was an Italian painter born in Rome, who is best known for painting realistic Neo-Pompeian genre scenes.

He was also a prominent numismatist, and author of papers on Italian coinage.

Among his works are: The Yellow Dress (1875), Roman children practice indoor archery (1881) and The Merchant of Fine Antiquities.

Walter Molino (1915-1997)

Walter Molino was an Italian comics artist and illustrator.

Born in Reggio Emilia, Molino made his professional debut as illustrator and caricaturist in 1935, collaborating with the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and the children's magazines Il Monello and L'Intrepido.

In 1936 he started working for the satirical magazine Bertoldo, and in 1938 he debuted as a comic artist with the series Virus, il mago della Foresta Morta, with texts of Federico Pedrocchi.

Walter Molino | La Singoletta, 1962

Dino Campana e Sibilla Aleramo "Quel viaggio chiamato amore"..

Nel 1916, sulle colline del Mugello, il poeta Italiano Dino Campana (Marradi, 20 agosto 1885 - Scandicci, 1º marzo 1932), conobbe la scrittriceSibilla Aleramo (Alessandria, 14 agosto 1876 - Roma, 13 gennaio 1960), autrice del romanzo "Una donna", con la quale instaurò una intensa quanto tumultuosa relazione, che si sarebbe interrotta all'inizio del 1918, a seguito di un breve incontro nel Natale del 1916, a Marradi.

Nell'ultima lettera qua di seguito, c'è tutto il dolore del poeta che non riesce a dimenticare l'amore per la Sibilla Aleramo.

Charles Amable Lenoir | Reverie, 1893

Marisa Prete | Crazy Museum

"Images are not just objects to contemplate: they are presences that speak to us, question us, seduce us, take us, grasp us, act on us and we on them" - Marisa Prete.

Marisa Prete from Milan has a degree in philosophy and deals with image and photography, writes for some magazines and manages a blog that deals with art, photography and cinema.

As the author says: "To better understand how generative TTI (text-to-image) models work, there is nothing better than starting to use them".

Giovanni Gasparro, 1983

Italian painter and printmaker Giovanni Gasparro was born in Bari.

He graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2007, as a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Modica, with a thesis in art history on the Roman stay of Van Dyck.

His Last Supper painting is exhibited in the film Saturno contro by Ferzan Ozpetek.

The first solo exhibition in Paris is in 2009.

Salvo (1947-2015)

Salvo aka Salvatore Mangione was born in Leonforte in the province of Enna on May 22, 1947.

He spent his childhood in Sicily and in 1956 moved with his family from Catania to Turin.

Since childhood he shows a strong aptitude for drawing and in 1963 participates, with a work taken from Leonardo, depicting an old man's head, at the 121^ Exhibition of the Promoting Society of Fine Arts.

He paints and sells copies from Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Fontana, Chagal, etc.

Bernardo Siciliano, 1969

Bernardo Siciliano was born in Rome, son of the Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual Enzo Siciliano.

Il Gabbiano and Forum Gallery have presented his works at both international and national Fairs: the CIAE in Chicago, the FIAC in Paris, the Arte Fiera of Bologna, the LA Art Show and Art Miami.

In 1992 the director Piero Maccarinelli commissioned him to paint the sets of the comedy Verso la fine dell’estate by Carlo Repetti for the 35th Festival of Spoleto.

In 1995 he collaborated on Bernardo Bertolucci’s movie Io ballo da sola.

Leopoldo Metlicovitz | Modern Poster artist

Leopoldo Metlicovitz (17 July 1868 - 19 October 1944) was an Italian painter, illustrator and poster designer.

Together with Leonetto Cappiello, Adolf Hohenstein, Giovanni Maria Mataloni and Marcello Dudovich, he is considered one of the fathers of modern Italian poster art.

Son of a merchant of Dalmatian origins (the family name was originally Metlicovich), he began working in the family business at a very young age and at fourteen years old he entered as an apprentice in a printing house in Udine, where he learned the technique of lithography.

Rita Levi-Montalcini: "Meglio aggiungere vita ai giorni, che non giorni alla vita"..

• "Tutti dicono che il cervello sia l'organo più complesso del corpo umano, da medico potrei anche acconsentire.

Ma come donna vi assicuro che non vi è niente di più complesso del cuore, ancora oggi non si conoscono i suoi meccanismi. Nei ragionamenti del cervello c’è logica, nei ragionamenti del cuore ci sono le emozioni".

• "Nella vita non bisogna mai rassegnarsi, arrendersi alla mediocrità, bensì uscire da quella zona grigia in cui tutto è abitudine e rassegnazione passiva, bisogna coltivare il coraggio di ribellarsi".

Vittorio Matteo Corcos | Dreams / Sogni, 1896 | Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna Roma

Silvio Porzionato, 1971

Silvio Porzionato was born in Moncalieri (Torino, Italy).

He is a figurative painter who prefers oil paint on large canvases.

He takes photographs of friends and people he meets on the street.

His figures are depicted in statuary close-ups, although ordinary people; have the power to make us forget the typical private dimension of the portrait and, at the same time, they have the power to become icons of the human race.

Francesco Bianchini, 1995

Francesco Bianchini was born in Milan, Italy.

After studying at art high school he attended the Brera Academy Of Fine Arts graduating with 110 cum laude with a thesis of art history.

In 2018 he moved to Florence to study at The Florence Academy of Art where he graduated and became teaching assistant.

Jacques Prevert | Sono quella che sono / I am what I am

Sono quella che sono

Sono fatta così

Se ho voglia di ridere

Rido come una matta

Amo colui che m’ama

Pino Daeni | Romantic painter

Cristina Torre Cáceres: "'Se domani non torno..."

Se domani non rispondo alle tue chiamate, mamma.

Se non ti dico che vengo a cena.

Se domani, non vedi arrivare il taxi.

Forse sono avvolta nelle lenzuola di un hotel, su una strada o in una borsa nera.

Forse sono in una valigia o mi sono persa sulla spiaggia.

Monica Cattaneo, 1953 | Romantic Surrealist painter

Born in Florence, Monica Cattaneo - artist of Italian origin but naturalised Swiss citizen, seems to achieve in her painting a perfect fusion of the three pictorial styles, Marc Chagall’s Expressionism, René Magritte’s Surrealism and Antonio Donghi’s Magical Realism, giving life to a personal and original language in which nature and the human being’s relationship with it become the focal point.

Her protagonists, predominantly women, seem to emerge from a parallel world in which the atmosphere is rarefied, suspended between reality and dream, between images traceable to details that the eye recognises and an almost paradisiacal dimension in which all that surrounds the human being is the element of flora and fauna, which becomes the co-protagonist of the canvas itself.

Vincenzo Sguera, 1950

- "When 18 years old, in 1968, I joined the Architecture Faculty of Florence (Italy) and graduated with the maximum in 1977.

In those 9 years in Florence I alternated study and work, as an artist, advertising illustrator, comics designer and advertising art director.

Once the obligations of military service and University were fulfilled, I opened a Studio for advertising, illustration, fashion and product design, then entering into business with the company "NEXT" in 1982".

Giovanni Muzzioli | Macchiaioli painter

Giovanni Muzzioli (1854-1894) was an Italian painter.

Muzzioli was born in Modena, after his family had moved from Castelvetro.

At the age of 15 years, he began to attend the local Academy of Fine Arts of Modena, working under Antonio Simonazzi and Asioli.

At the age of seventeen (1871), years later, he gained the Poletti scholarship entitling him to four years residence in Rome studying at the Accademia di San Luca, working first under professor Podesti, and later after 1874 under professor Coghetti.

Giuseppe de Sanctis | Genre painter

Giuseppe De Sanctis (1858-1924) was an Italian painter, primarily of portraits and cityscapes.

He was born in Naples. His father, Cesare, was a businessman who loved music, art and the theater.

He was, in fact, a close friend of Verdi, who attended Giuseppe's baptism.

As a result, contrary to the experience of many other aspiring artists, his family encouraged his desire to become a painter.

Fillide Giorgi Levasti | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Fillide Giorgi Levasti (Florence, 1883-1966) was, undoubtedly, one of the most important women painting in Italy in the 1900s.

Deeply influenced by the Macchiaioli movement, Giorgi Levasti (1883-1966) became a student of Giovanni Fattori, attending the Scuola Libera del Nudo at Florence’s Academy, where she made anatomical drawings from live models.

Salvatore Quasimodo / Naturesms | The Sea Still Sounds / S'ode ancora il mare

Già da più notti s’ode ancora il mare,

lieve, su e giù, lungo le sabbie lisce.

Eco d'una voce chiusa nella mente

che risale dal tempo; ed anche questo

lamento assiduo di gabbiani: forse

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