Lo distinguiamo dagli altri
come se fosse un cavallino
diverso da tutti i cavalli.
Gli adorniamo la fronte
con un nastro,
gli posiamo sul collo sonagli colorati,
Olga Darchuk, 1976
Karl Feiertag | Genre painter
Karl Holiday (1874, Vienna - 1944, Weidling) was an Austrian painter.
Karl Urlaub studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Franz Rumpler, Kasimir Pochwalski and Josef Mathias Trenkwald.
He worked in Vienna and Munich for various advertising companies and moved to Weidling with his wife.
Luigi Pirandello | Sogno di Natale, 1896
Sentivo da un pezzo sul capo inchinato tra le braccia come l'impressione d'una mano lieve, in atto tra di carezza e di protezione. Ma l'anima mia era lontana, errante pei luoghi veduti fin dalla fanciullezza, dei quali mi spirava ancor dentro il sentimento, non tanto però che bastasse al bisogno che provavo di rivivere, fors'anche per un minuto, la vita come immaginavo si dovesse in quel punto svolgere in essi.
Era festa dovunque: in ogni chiesa, in ogni casa: intorno al ceppo, lassù; innanzi a un Presepe, laggiù; noti volti tra ignoti riuniti in lieta cena; eran canti sacri, suoni di zampogne, gridi di fanciulli esultanti, contese di giocatori. . . E le vie delle città grandi e piccole, dei villaggi, dei borghi alpestri o marini, eran deserte nella rigida notte. E mi pareva di andar frettoloso per quelle vie, da questa casa a quella, per godere della raccolta festa degli altri; mi trattenevo un poco in ognuna, poi auguravo:
- Buon Natale - e sparivo. . .
Tiziano Vecellio | La Madonna di San Niccolò dei Frari, 1533-1535
Salvatore Quasimodo | Natale / Christmas
Natale. Guardo il presepe scolpito,
dove sono i pastori appena giunti
alla povera stalla di Betlemme.
Anche i Re Magi nelle lunghe vesti
salutano il potente Re del mondo.
Jacopo Tintoretto | The Madonna of the Stars, c. 1575-1585 | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Ellen Thesleff | Expressionist painter
Ellen Thesleff (5 October 1869 - 12 January 1954) was an expressionist Finnish painter, regarded as one of the leading Finnish modernist painters.
Thesleff was born in Helsinki, the eldest daughter of five siblings and her father was an amateur painter.
She took private lessons and then, in 1887, studied for two years at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School (now known as the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) with Gunnar Berndtson.
Harriet Backer | Impressionist painter
Biography from: Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norvegia
Harriet Backer inspired a new generation of artists.
In Backer’s family, art and culture were part of how the children were raised.
Her older sister Agathe was musically gifted and wanted to become a pianist.
She had to go abroad to learn, and Harriet became her sister's traveling companion.
Asta Nørregaard | Portrait painter
Asta Nørregaard (13 August 1853 - 23 March 1933) was a Norwegian painter who is best known for her portraits.
Nørregaard was born in Christiania (now Oslo), Norway.
She was the daughter of Hans Peter Nørregaard (1818–1872) and Elise Jacobine Hesselberg (1821–1853).
Galileo Chini | Art Nouveau painter
One of the leading players in the Art Nouveau style, or Liberty style as it is known in Italy, the Tuscan painter Galileo Chini (1873-1956) - who was also a graphic artist and a ceramicist) - occupies a unique place in the panorama of Italian art.
Born in Florence, Galileo Chini pursued his artistic studies in a sporadic, desultory manner, attending the Scuola Libera di Nudo at the city's Accademia di Belle Arti for a while, but without ever gaining any kind of diploma from it, he was to break off his studies in order to work as an artisan in the workshop of his uncle, a restorer and decorator.
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