Solo et pensoso i piú deserti campi
vo mesurando a passi tardi et lenti,
et gli occhi porto per fuggire intenti
ove vestigio human l’arena stampi.
Giovanni Fattori | Uomo nel bosco, 1880-1885
Pablo Neruda / Yuri Krotov | Ode to summer / Ode all'estate
Estate, violino rosso,
nuvola chiara,
un ronzio
di catena montuosa
o di cicala
ti precede,
il cielo
a volta,
liscio, luccicante come
un occhio,
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina | Renaissance painter
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina (1489-1536) considered "Spain's most exquisite Renaissance painter" by Elías Tormo was first mentioned in 1575 in Relaciones de los pueblos de España as "licenciado Yáñez" from the village of Almedina.
He also appears in a roster of painters compiled by Hernando de Ávila in his "Art of painting" and included by Diego de Villalta in 1590.
Ambrogio de Predis | Renaissance painter
Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (1455-1508) was an Italian Renaissance painter, illuminator and designer of coins active in Milan.
Ambrogio gained a reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of miniatures, at the court of Ludovico Sforza.
Life
Ambrogio de Predis was born in a family of artists from Lombardy.
Federico Barocci | Baroque / Mannerist painter
Federico Barocci (also written Barozzi) (1535 in Urbino - 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker.
His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio.
He is generally considered the greatest and the most individual painter of his time in central Italy.
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