Federico del Campo (1837-1923) | Vedute painter

Federico del Campo was a Peruvian painter who was active in Venice where he was one of the leading vedute painters of the 19th century.

Del Campo was born in Lima and left his native Peru at a young age.

Nothing is known with certainty about his early studies in Peru.

He studied at Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando) in Madrid from around 1865. Here he established a friendship with Lorenzo Valles, a history painter.

Emily Dickinson | Tutto imparammo dell'amore / We learned the Whole of Love

Tutto imparammo dell'amore

Alfabeto, parole.

Il capitolo, il libro possente

Poi la rivelazione terminò.

Ma negli occhi dell'altro

Ciascuno contemplava l'ignoranza

Divina, ancora più che nell'infanzia:

L'uno all'altro, fanciulli.

Camille Claudel 1864-1943

Renoir | Landscapes with Figures

• "If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
• "Se dipingi la foglia su un albero senza usare un modello, la tua immaginazione ti fornirà solo poche foglie; ma la natura ti offre milioni, tutti sullo stesso albero. Non ci sono due foglie esattamente uguali. L'artista che dipinge solo ciò che ha in mente deve ben presto ripetersi" - Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Leo Tolstoy: "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"

Ilia Efimovich Repin (Ukrainian-born Russian Realist painter, 1844-1930)| Portrait of Leo Tolstoy, 1887

Best known for his two classic novels, 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina' Leo Tolstoy, in full Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy / Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й (1828-1910), was a Russian writer, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists.

• "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself".

• "Tutti pensano a cambiare il mondo, ma nessuno pensa a cambiare se stesso".

• "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

• "Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo".

• "If you look for perfection, you'll never be content".

• "Se cerchi la perfezione, non ti accontenterai mai".

Ivan Kramskoi | An unknown lady, 1883

‣ Author: Ivan Kramskoi / Ива́н Крамско́й (Russian painter and art critic, 1837-1887).

‣ Title: Portrait of an Unknown Woman, also known as The Unknown Woman, An Unknown Lady or Stranger - Russian: Неизвестная.

‣ Medium: oil on canvas.

‣ Date: 1883.

‣ Provenance: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.