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Catherine Calcagni: Mi crolla addosso la notte

Mi crolla addosso la notte
"your wild kiss in the dark" che...
in assenza di te
sprofonda e avanza
dentro di me...

Mara Light

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Filippo Palizzi | Pastore addormentato con il suo cane, 1850-1855

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) con il fratello Giuseppe, rappresenta il primo tentativo di un indirizzo verista nella pittura italiana dell'Ottocento.
Sulla scia della Scuola di Posillipo e di una spontanea inclinazione orientò il suo lavoro verso una dettagliata osservazione del vero.
Fu tra i primi pittori a interessarsi di fotografia ed a praticarla, sulla base di conoscenze tecniche molto approfondite.


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Filippo Palizzi | Verist painter

Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899) was an Italian painter. Filippo Palizzi was born in Vasto (Chieti).
He moved to Naples in 1837 and enrolled at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but withdrew after a few months to attend the private school of the painter Giuseppe Bonolis.
Contact with his brother Giuseppe, who moved to France in 1844, introduced him to the painting of the Barbizon School.


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Tanvi Pathare | Figurative painter



Tanvi Pathare, born in Mumbai, India, showed a growing interest in the fine arts since a very early age. She graduated with honors from the prestigious Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai where she received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting. Following the allure of the realistic tradition of painting from nature, Tanvi attended The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy, graduating from the Painting Program in 2012.

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Lionel Percy Smythe | Victorian landscape watercolors painter



Lionel Percy Smythe (1839-1918) was Wyllie's older half-brother and the eldest of three illegitimate children that their mother, Katherine Benham, a singer, had with Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford (though the family always claimed a marriage).
He was born in London on 4 September 1839 and spent his early years in France, where his younger sister and brother were born, though the family returned to London in 1843 and lived in Gloucester Crescent, Camden.