Jaroslav Seifert / John Singer Sargent | Viaggio a Venezia

Si può dire forse cosí:

l’amore va e va e va

e non v’è angolo

dove non sia a casa sua.

E i baci si allungano veloci

come a primavera le giornate.

Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)

Mantegna, Andrea - Pittore ed incisore padovano, nato nel 1431, probabilmente a Isola di Carturo, allora in territorio di Vicenza, morto a Mantova il 13 settembre 1506. Fu l'iniziatore del Rinascimento nel Veneto e il rinnovatore della pittura nell'Italia settentrionale.

Era figlio di contadini; ne scoprì il genio e lo indirizzò all'arte Francesco Squarcione; strana figura di pittore e più di pedagogo e d'imprenditore, arrivato all'arte a trentadue anni dalla sartoria, a cui la vecchia storiografia, per vanità provinciale, assegnò il compito d'inventore d'un rinascimento particolare, non possibile in una terra ancora sotto il fascino pieno dell'arte bizantina e della gotica, e che il mondo non ebbe se non da Firenze.

Bernard Pras, 1952 | Surrealist sculptor

F rench artist⏭ Bernard Pras combines surrealism⏭ and anamorphosis by assembling commonplace materials that can be seen as recognisable people when photographed from the precise position of alignment.

The assembled objects are not arbitrary but are selected to marry with the theme of the portrayed person.

Djordje Prudnikov (Serbian, 1939-2017)

Đorđe Prudnikov / Djordje Prudnikov /Ђорђе Прудников was an Russo-Serbian painter, graphic artist and designer, championed as one of the greatest and most original contemporary artists to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.

It was the hand of God that joined a serbian woman and a russian man, who had come to Serbia as boy, with his parents, after the October Revolution in Russia.

So, on April 19th 1939 in Uzice, they got their son: Djordje Prudnikov.

In 1946, the family moved to Belgrade. After completing his grammar school, Djordje was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts.

Few months later he left it to enroll at the Academy of Applied Arts where he graduated in the class of Professor Mihailo Petrov.

Jaume Huguet | Early Renaissance painter

Jaume Huguet (1412–1492) was a Catalan painter.

Originally from Valls, he moved to Tarragona to stay with his uncle Pere Huguet, who was also a painter. When they moved to Barcelona he was exposed to modern trends of the time. Between 1440-1445 he worked in Zaragoza and later in Tarragona, where he was influenced by the Flemish style of Luis Dalmau.

A retablo from Huguet is in the Monastery of Pedralbes, while another, depicting the Adoration of the Magi (or Epiphany) is housed in the Chapel of St. Agatha in Barcelona's Palau Reial Major.

Guido Reni | La Vita

Fonte: La Galleria Borghese, Roma

Guido Reni (1575-1642) nasce a Bologna nel 1575, da Daniele Reni musicista e maestro della Cappella di San Petronio, e Ginevra Pozzi.

Nel 1584 abbandonati gli studi di musica entra come apprendista nella bottega del pittore fiammingo Denijs Calvaert, dove incontra altri artisti destinati a grande successo, i giovani Francesco Albani e Domenichino.

Nel 1594 lascia questa bottega per accedere all’Accademia degli Incamminati, la scuola di pittura fondata dai Carracci nel 1582, dove approfondisce lo studio della pittura ad olio e dell’incisione a bulino.

Guido Reni | Baroque painter

Guido Reni, (born Nov. 4, 1575, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]-died Aug. 18, 1642, Bologna) early Italian Baroque painter noted for the classical idealism of his renderings of mythological and religious subjects.

First apprenticed to the Flemish painter Denis Calvaert at the age of 10, Reni was later influenced by the novel naturalism of the Carracci, a Bolognese family of painters.

Andrea Mantegna | Renaissance painter

Andrea Mantegna, (born 1431, Isola di Cartura [near Vicenza], Republic of Venice [Italy]-died September 13, 1506, Mantua), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi ("Room of the Bride and Groom"), or Camera Picta ("Painted Room") (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment. Mantegna’s other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes (1448-55) in the Eremitani Church in Padua and the Triumph of Caesar (begun c. 1486), the pinnacle of his late style.