Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) Landscape painter

Charles Partridge Adams (January 12, 1858 - October 14, 1942) was a largely self-taught American🎨 landscape artist who painted primarily in Colorado, and secondarily in California. Some paintings were also made in other Rocky Mountain states, the Pacific Northwest and Canada, and a few in Louisiana, the East Coast and Europe.

Adams was born in Franklin, Massachusetts; his family moved to Denver in 1876. In 1877 he began work in the Chain and Hardy bookstore in Denver, and received lessons from Helen Henderson Chain, an artist who had studied with George Inness🎨.

In 1885 he traveled to the East Coast and visited the studios of George Inness and Worthington Whittredge, and in 1888 he traveled to California and visited the studios of William Keith and Thomas Hill.

Thomas Edwin Mostyn | Jewels

Born in Liverpool and raised in Manchester, Tom Edwin Mostyn R.O.I., R.W.A., R.C.A. (1864-1930), the son of the artist Edwin Mostyn, studied at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.

He had his first local exhibition in 1880, and was showing at the Royal Academy (R.A.) by the age of 29.

He is mainly recognized for his romantic garden scenes, although his style was so eclectic throughout his career that it is hard to believe that the same artist created all of his paintings.

Salvador Dalì | Gli Autoritratti

Salvador Dalì iniziò molto presto a dipingere autoritratti.

In quelli realizzati durante l'adolescenza, Dalí si rappresenta con un atteggiamento distante nei confronti dei suoi compagni, ma allo stesso tempo desideroso di incidere su di loro (o provocarli) e sul pubblico in generale.

Alda Merini | Autobiografia in versi e frasi

Victor Nizovtsev

▻ "Io vivo sempre al buio, ma nei miei pensieri brilla sempre un sole".

▻ "Domandano tutti come si fa a scrivere un libro: si va vicino a Dio e gli si dice: feconda la mia mente, mettiti nel mio cuore e portami via dagli altri, rapiscimi".

Lorenzo di Credi (1458-1537)

Lorenzo di Credi, Lorenzo d'Andrea d'Oderigo (Firenze, 1459/1460-1537), è stato un pittore Italiano, allievo del Verrocchio che lo nominò suo erede, resse la bottega di quest'ultimo, quando era impegnato a Venezia nella statua equestre del Colleoni e ne riportò a Firenze la salma da Venezia dove il Verrocchio era morto nel 1488.

La sua formazione avvenne nella bottega del Verrocchio da cui derivò lo stile finito costruito con linee incisive e precise, modi che influenzarono il suo condiscepolo Leonardo, successivamente le parti si scambiarono e fu Lorenzo ad accogliere lo sfumato e le sottilissime velature di Leonardo.

Per la bottega eseguì la Madonna di Piazza nel Duomo di Pistoia, opera commissionata al Verrocchio, completata con l'aiuto di altri allievi tra cui Perugino e forse Leonardo da Vinci (del quale si ipotizza la paternità della tavoletta della predella raffigurante l'Annunciazione, spesso attribuita però allo stesso Lorenzo).

Alonso Sánchez Coello (1531-1588) Renaissance painter

Sánchez Coello, Alonso (Benifairó del Valls, Valencia - Spain, 1531/32 - Madrid -Spain, 1588) is a fundamental figure in the history of Spanish painting🎨.

He was the first to bring portraiture to the peninsula, where he followed the model developed by Anthonis Mor in likenesses of the Habsburg family.

Some of his paintings were included in the most important portrait galleries developed during the reign of Philip II, including those at the El Pardo and Alcázar Palaces, both sadly lost to fires in 1604 and 1734, respectively.

Today, his works hang in the Museo del Prado, in Spain’s royal foundations, including the Monastery of the Descalzas Reales and in museums and collections in Austria and Bohemia.

Karl D. Witkowski (1860-1910) | Genre painter

Karol (Karl) Dominik Witkowski (16 August 1860, Yazlovets, now Buchach Raion - 17 May 1910) was a Polish🎨-American🎨 portraitist and genre painter🎨, better known in the USA as Karl Witkowski.

He painted scenes of contemporary daily life in America.

Karol Dominik Witkowski was born to a Polish family in Jazłowiec (Jaslowiec), near Buchach, Czortków (Podole, Poland, now Ukraine).

As young boy he showed unusual talent in making drawings and his parents sent him to school in Chortkiv (12 miles from Yazlovets).

In 1879 he enlisted in the Austrian Army (in 19th century southern Poland was occupied by Austria and named Galicia), where he gained popularity by making portraits of his fellow soldiers and commanding officers, including a portrait of General Duke William of Württemberg and portrait of Lieutenant Field Marshal Emanuel Salomon of Friedberg - Mírohorsky (this army officer also was a genre painter, it is possible, why later in USA Karl Witkowski became genre painter).

Ronit Baranga, 1973 | Israeli sculptor

Ronit Baranga is a contemporary Israeli artist who lives and works in Israel. As a sculptor and installation artist, she creates figurative art on the border between living and still life, dealing with emotional states and relationships.

Her work has been displayed in museums and galleries around the world and is a part of many museum and private collections. Key exhibitions include Banksy’s group exhibition "Dismaland" and numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Istanbul, Taiwan, China, Germany, Tel-Aviv and Australia.

Baranga holds a B.A. in Psychology and Literature from Haifa University, studied Art History in Tel-Aviv University, and Fine Arts in Beit Berl College ('HaMidrasha'), Israel.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta: "Ama la vita così com'è"..

Ama la vita così com'è

Amala pienamente, senza pretese;

amala quando ti amano o quando ti odiano,

amala quando nessuno ti capisce,

o quando tutti ti comprendono.

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg | Alcyone's Farewell to her Husband - From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Song XI

Renoir | Reading Woman on the Bench, 1905

• "Resto al sole non tanto per eseguire dei ritratti in piena luce, ma per scaldarmi e per osservare. Così, a forza di vedere l'esterno, ho finito con l'accorgermi solo delle grandi armonie senza più preoccuparmi dei piccoli dettagli che spengono il sole anziché infiammarlo".
• "So I am staying in the sun - not to paint portraits but while I am warming myself and looking hard at things I hope I will have acquired some of the grandeur and simplicity of the old masters [...] So, by looking around outside, I have finished by seeing only the broad harmonies, and am no longer preoccupied with the little details, which only extinguish the sunlight, instead of increasing its brilliance".

Auguste Rodin / Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet, 1905

Silenzio! Quale luce irrompe da quella finestra lassù?

È l'oriente, e Giulietta è il sole.

Sorgi, vivido sole, e uccidi l'invidiosa luna,

malata già e pallida di pena

perché tu, sua ancella, di tanto la superi in bellezza.

Non essere la sua ancella, poiché la luna è invidiosa.

Il suo manto di vestale è già di un verde smorto,

e soltanto i pazzi lo indossano. Gettalo via.

È la mia donna; oh, è il mio amore! se soltanto sapesse di esserlo.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Sol io ardendo all'ombra mi rimango | Le Rime

Sonetto 1 | Molti anni fassi qual felice, in una

Molti anni fassi qual felice, in una

brevissima ora si lamenta e dole;

o per famosa o per antica prole

altri s'inlustra, e ’n un momento imbruna.

Cosa mobil non è che sotto el sole

non vinca morte e cangi la fortuna.

A man who's happy many a year, one hour

- even less! - undoes; all's lost in grief and worry.

Another basks in his family name; that glory

is out in a flash as blacker heavens lour.

None so alive but death cuts short the story;

nothing so sweet but fortune turns it sour ...