Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter

Giovanni Sottocornola (1855-1917) was an Italian painter🎨.

He was born in Milan of humble origins.

In 1875 he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where he attended the courses of Raffaele Casnedi and Giuseppe Bertini until 1880 and met his fellow students Gaetano Previati🎨, Emilio Longoni🎨 and Giovanni Segantini🎨.

While the portraits and still lifes presented at the Brera exhibitions of the following years enjoyed considerable success on the art market, he began to address social themes early in the new decade and experimented with the Divisionist technique in paintings like The Worker’s Dawn (1897, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan).

Giovanni Sottocornola | The worker's dawn / L'alba dell'operaio, 1897

Giovanni Sottocornola🎨 was an Milanese painter, best known for his charming genre scenes set in Italy’s Lombardy region.

Sottocornola was born in Milan, Italy, in 1855.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Sottocornola see:

• Giovanni Sottocornola | Divisionist / Genre painter🎨

Gaspar van Wittel | Baroque / Veduta painter

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel - born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel; Italian name variations: Gaspare Vanvitelli, Gasparo degli Occhiali- (1652/1653, Amersfoort - September 13, 1736, Rome) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome.

He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta.

He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.

Angelo Morbelli | Divisionist / Genre painter

Angelo Morbelli (1853-1919) was an Italian painter of the Divisionist style.

A grant from the City Council of Alessandria enabled Morbelli to enrol at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, in 1867.

He was awarded the Fumagalli Prize at the Brera exhibition of 1883 for Last Days (Milan, Galleria d’Arte Moderna) as well as a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889.

Frida Kahlo to José Bartoli | Love letter, 1946

"My Bartoli-Jose-Guiseppe-my red one,

I don’t know how to write love letters.

But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you.

Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty.

I would like to give you the prettiest colors, I want to kiss you…

[I want] our dream worlds to be one.

I would like to see from your eyes, hear from your ears, feel with your skin, kiss with your mouth. In order to see you from below [I would like] to be the shadow that is born from the soles of your feet and that lengthens along the ground upon which you walk….