Michail Lermontov | Il Demone, 1829 | Prima parte

Michail Jur'evič Lermontov /Михаил Юрьевич Лермонтов (1814-1841) è una delle personalità letterarie più importanti del Romanticismo russo.

Poeta, scrittore e drammaturgo fu contemporaneo di Aleksandr Sergeevič Puškin (1799-1837) e come lui, morì in duello.

Autore del poema “Il Demone” e di “Un eroe del nostro tempo”, il suo capolavoro in prosa che uscì nel 1840, un anno prima della sua morte.

"Il Demone" / Демон rappresenta uno dei capolavori della Letteratura Russa, oltre che della Letteratura Romantica Europea.

"Il Demone" fu iniziato nel 1829 da un Lermontov sedicenne e concluso nel 1841. Lermontov scrisse ben otto redazioni del poema.

Berthe Morisot | Subjects

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) painted what she experienced on a daily basis.

Most of her paintings include domestic scenes of family, children, ladies, and flowers, depicting what women's life was like in the late nineteenth century.

Instead of portraying the public space and society, Morisot preferred private, intimate scenes.

This reflects the cultural restrictions of her class and gender at that time.

Berthe Morisot | Lo stile artistico

Berthe Morisot (Bourges, 14 gennaio 1841 - Parigi, 2 marzo 1895) è stata una delle interpreti più significative, fantasiose e vivaci del movimento impressionista.

È importante notare inoltre come la Morisot, insieme a Mary Cassat, Eva Gonzalès e Marie Bracquemond, sia stata una delle poche pittrici impressioniste.

Thomas Cole

Berthe Morisot | Style and technique

Because she was a female artist, Morisot's paintings were often labeled as being full of "feminine charm" by male critics, for their elegance and lightness.

In 1890, Morisot wrote in a notebook about her struggles to be taken seriously as an artist: "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they".

Her light brushstrokes often led to critics using the verb "effleurer" (to touch lightly, brush against) to describe her technique.

In her early life, Morisot painted in the open air as other Impressionists to look for truths in observation.

Marianne von Werefkin | Expressionist painter

Marianne von Werefkin (1860-1938), Russian-German-Swiss painter, a member of ancient russian nobility, was born in the Russian town of Tula.

She was well educated according to western standards and the young girl's artistic talents were recognised early and encouraged.

She had her first private academic drawing lessons at the age of fourteen.

She was introduced to Illarion Michailowitsch Prjanischnikow, a member of the "Peredwischniki", where she began her studies, by the Repin family.

When her family moved to St. Petersburg in 1886 Marianne von Werefkin took private lessons under Repin.

Antonio Nunziante, 1956 | Metaphysical art

Italian painter Antonio Nunziante is one of the most important and celebrated painters in Italy today. He was born in Naples 1956, considered an artistic prodigy, having repeatedly experimented with oil paintings at 8 years old. After attaining a secondary school Art diploma in Asti, while demonstrating the maturity of his own painterly hand, he entered at the Fine Arts Academy for two years.

In 1975 his career began to flourish as a professional painter and he returned to Turin, where he completed restoration techniques in Florence. His visits to Italian and Europeans museums enriched his experience bringing him in contact with masterpieces of distinguished painters like Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Adriano Bonifazi | Romantic genre painter

Adriano Bonifazi (1858-1914) was an Italian painter who worked in Capri and Rome and primarily produced idealised or Romantic 'portraits' of young boys and girls, often in rustic dress.

Rather than naturalistic identifiable portraits, Bonifazi often painted pendants, that is paired paintings, depicting a young girl and a young boy, in an Romantic vein, offering flowers to their beloved or looking whistfully out of the picture space.