Leonardo da Vinci | Dell'occhio...

Trattato della Pittura

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Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

L'occhio, dal quale la bellezza dell'universo è specchiata dai contemplanti, e di tanta eccellenza, che chi consente alla sua perdita, si priva della rappresentazione di tutte le opere della natura, per la veduta delle quali l'anima sta contenta nelle umane carceri, mediante gli occhi, per i quali essa anima si rappresenta tutte le varie cose di natura.

Ma chi li perde lascia essa anima in una oscura prigione, dove si perde ogni speranza di rivedere il sole, luce di tutto il mondo.

E quanti son quelli a cui le tenebre notturne sono in sommo odio, ancora ch'elle sieno di breve vita!

Elena Kukanova, 1979 | Figurative painter

Russian painter Elena Kukanova /Елена Куканова was born in Moscow.

She studied at the Art School and Lyceum of Moscow from 1988-1998.

For the next six years Kukanova attended the Art Academy of Moscow where the focus was entirely on portraits. Her father is a Colonel in the Russian Army.

She grew up in an environment where she was exposed to the military world of Russia.

She loves the theatre and currently works in one of Moscow`s theatres as a costume and scenery designer.

William Shakespeare | Sonetto V

In original english➦ William Shakespeare | Sonnets, 1609

V

L’ore cortesi che squisite danno

le forme al tuo bel viso, onde ogni sguardo

è avvinto, quel potere empio s’avranno:

fare meschino quel ch’era gagliardo.

Richard (Riccardo) Aurili (1834-1914)

Olga Akasi, 1970 | Symbolist painter

Ольга Акаси was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Lives and works in Kiev.

"Ukrainian artist, the unique in the Ukraine, who works in the technology of old masters, without being neither the restorer, nor the museum worker.

Akasi is an artist of the new generation with an original manner and theme characteristic for all her works. However, she never follows methods of actual art specializing in criticizing the public taste or perception standards".

John Atkinson Grimshaw | Moonlight painter

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was an British Victorian artist who became famous for his sombre views of the dockyards and his nocturnal scenes of urban lanes with leafless trees silhouetted against the moonlight sky.
During his later life, he became a close friend of James McNeill Whistler who admired his work and admitted: "I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy’s moonlight picture".
For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Grimshaw see Atkinson Grimshaw | Victorian-era painter.