Peter Falk (Lieutenant Columbo), the painter

Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer.

He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo (1968-1978, 1989-2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973).

In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk No. 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.

He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.

Federico Garcia Lorca | Desiderio / Wish

Solo il tuo cuore ardente…

niente più.

Il mio paradiso…

un campo senza usignolo né lire,

con un fiume discreto e una fontanella.

Senza lo sprone del vento sopra le fronde

né la stella che vuole essere foglia.

Tranquillo Cremona | The ivy / Edera, 1878

Rembrandt | The Night Watch, 1642

Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq, also known as The Shooting Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, but commonly referred to as The Night Watch (Dutch: De Nachtwacht), is a 1642 painting by Rembrandt van Rijn.

It is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum but is prominently displayed in the Rijksmuseum as the best-known painting in its collection.

The Night Wahtc is one of the most famous Dutch Golden Age paintings.

Rembrandt's large painting (363x437 cm (12 by 14+1⁄2 feet)) is famed for transforming a group portrait of a civic guard company into a compelling drama energized by light and shadow (tenebrism).

The title is a misnomer; the painting does not depict a nocturnal scene.

Giovanni Segantini: ".. Amè piace fare all'amore colle mie concessioni…"

• "… Sarò felice quel giorno che noi in un eletto drappello combatteremo uniti contro la volgarità per la bellezza del senso del colore, per la luce che dà vita alla natura, per la purezza viva e ardente della forma di tutte le cose che dà all’opere nostre quell’armonia ideale dell’anima che si dona all’opera per vivere in essa".

• "… Se si volesse entrare a discorrere seriamente d'arte, per farsi ben capire ed evitare equivoci, sarebbe necessario far precedere un breve trattato di psicologia (nientemeno!). Che altro è l'arte, l'arte bella, vera, elevata, se non l'immagine fotografica, il misuratore che segna il grado di perfezione dell'anima umana?"

Giovanni Battista Moroni | Mannerist painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni (1520/4-1579) is one of the most famous North Italian portrait specialists of the 16th century.

He was a native of Albino, near Bergamo.

In his early years he worked in Brescia and at Trent (1551-2).

Later altarpieces and portraits were painted for clients in and around Bergamo and Albino, where he settled in 1561.

His portraits have great psychological penetration, which owes less to his master and more to the Venetian tradition of portraiture as it had been evolved by Giorgione and Titian. | Source: © The National Gallery, London

Konstantinos Kavafis | La Città / Η Πόλις / The City

Hai detto: "Andrò per altra terra ed altro mare.

Una città migliore di questa ci sarà.

Tutti gli sforzi sono condanna scritta. E qua

giace sepolto, come un morto, il cuore.

E fino a quando, in questo desolato languore?

Pavlos Samios / Παύλος Σάμιος (1948-2021)

Leonardo da Vinci | Del dare i lumi..

Trattato della Pittura

Parte quinta | Capitoli 744-759

Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura | Testo Integrale

Indice

744. Regola del porre le debite ombre e i debiti lumi ad una figura, ovvero corpo laterato.

745. Regola del porre le vere chiarezze de' lumi sopra i lati del predetto corpo.

746. Perché pare piú chiaro il campo illuminato intorno all'ombra derivativa stando in casa che in campagna.

747. Del dare i lumi.

Camille Claudel (1864-1943)

Camille Claudel was a French sculptor and graphic artist.

In 1882 the sculptor Auguste Rodin agreed to supervise a small group of young women students, one of whom was the seventeen-year-old Camille Claudel.

Auguste and Camille fell in love almost at first sight.