Rabindranath Tagore | Sonno /Sleep

Antonio Tordesillas, 1960

Nel tuo sonno, al limite dei sogni,

aspetto guardando in silenzio il tuo viso,

come la stella del mattino che appare per prima

alla tua finestra.

Con i miei occhi berrò' il primo sorriso

che, come un germoglio, sboccerà'

sulle tue labbra semiaperte.

Il mio desiderio e' solo questo...

Evgeniy Monahov, 1974 | VideoArt

Evgeniy Monahov è un pittore Russo, laureato presso il Collegio d'Arte di Mosca.

Nel 2001 espone le sue opere nella prestigiosa galleria californiana Richard Thomas.

Da quel momento in poi i suoi quadri hanno iniziato a viaggiare in tutto il mondo.

Il lavoro di Evgeniy si ispira principalmente ai pittori dell’Impressionismo: pennellate rapide e allentate per dare dettagli e “sostanza” ai suoi soggetti.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Lovesight / Visione d'Amore

Lovesight

When do I see thee most, beloved one?

When in the light the spirits of mine eyes

Before thy face, their altar, solemnize

The worship of that Love through thee made known?

Or when in the dusk hours (we two alone)

Close-kissed and eloquent of still replies

Thy twilight-hidden glimmering visage lies,

And my soul only sees thy soul its own?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love Enthroned / Amore sul Trono

Love Enthroned

I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-

Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;

And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past

To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;

And Youth, with still some single golden hair

Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last

Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love's Testament / Testamento d'amore

Love's Testament

O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically

Unto my heart dost evermore present,

Clothed with his fire, thy heart his testament;

Whom I have neared and felt thy breath to be

The inmost incense of his sanctuary;

Who without speech hast owned him, and, intent

Upon his will, thy life with mine hast blent,

And murmured, “I am thine, thou'rt one with me!”

Dusan Jovanovic, 1949 | Magic Realism painter

Dušan Jovanović is an Serbian painter of portraits and still lifes.

Jovanović was born May 1, 1949 in Belgrade. He has attended many esteemed educational institutes, such as Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, School of Art for Interior Decoration, School Restoration-Painting etc.

He took participation in more than two hundred art exhibitions throughout Europe, including: Show World "My country, my home" (Moscow, Russia, 1965) and Exhibition "Selections 1984" Nation Gallery (Paris, France, 1984).

Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter ⁽¹⁾

Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 - 8 February 1935)🎨 was a German🎨-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.

The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann🎨 grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate.

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

• Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter🎨

Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle

This painting is emblematic of the refined and dramatic nocturnes that form the small catalogue of works by Adam de Coster.

Benedict Nicolson was the first scholar to isolate a corpus of works by this Flemish candlelight painter in a series of publications.

He based this group around Lucas Vorsterman’s engraving after a lost work by de Coster, which depicted tric-trac players and a musician illuminated by two burning candles on a table.