Francesco Bachiacca | Portrait of a young lady holding a cat, 1525-30

A Florentine painter and draughtsman, Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, called Bachiacca [1494-1557] is chiefly recognized as an artist who helped evolve the style of Mannerism🎨.

He is said to have studied with Umbrian painter, Pietro Perugino🎨 (1446-1524) and also collaborated with other artists of the time such as Franciabigio (1482-1525) and Pontormo🎨 (1494-1557).

Canaletto | The Molo Seen from the San Marco Basin, 1730

Canaletto | The Molo Seen from the San Marco Basin, 1730 | Louvre Museum, Paris

Canaletto (1697-1768)🎨 painted some ten versions of this subject, the most similar to this one being in the Uffizi in Florence.

The prototype for the series can be dated to around 1730.

Beginning in the 15th century, and especially in the 18th century, Venetian painters delighted in depicting parts of their city in exact detail.

The Rome-trained painter Luca Carlevaris (1663-1730) adopted the tradition in Venice and handed it on to his apprentice Antonio Canal, who combined it with experience gained from his father, a theatre set designer.

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Telemaco Signorini | Bapin de Lilela, 1895

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Auguste Rodin | Fugitive Love, 1886

Auguste Rodin | Fugit Amor, 1886 | Musée d'Orsay, Paris

This small group which originally featured in La Porte de l'Enfer (The Gates of Hell) commissioned in 1880, was the biggest project of Rodin's🎨 life.

The sculptor chose to illustrate Dante's L'Enfer (Inferno), populated by the tortured souls of the damned.

He worked on it for at least twenty years without ever finishing it.

This monumental work of one hundred and eighty six figures was, for Rodin, an opportunity to create a ‘reservoir' from which he would draw for future compositions.

Paul Cézanne al Museo Ermitage di San Pietroburgo

Le opere di Paul Cézanne (1839-1906)🎨, a cui è dedicata la sala 410 dell'Ermitage di San Pietroburgo, presentano l'opera di una delle figure principali del post-impressionismo, dai dipinti del 1879-80 alle opere degli ultimi anni della sua vita.

Tele di vari generi sono state eseguite nella maniera matura dell'artista.

Ci sono Smoker (circa 1890-1892) e Still Life with a Curtain (circa 1894-1895), una delle opere più significative del pittore in questo genere.

Telemaco Signorini | Bapin de Lilela, 1895

Telemaco Signorini (1835-1901) was born in Florence. He was a key figure in the Macchiaioli🎨 - a group of artists centred in Florence who were forerunners of the Impressionists.

The Macchiaioli rejected the conventions taught by Italian art🎨 academies in favour of an art based on modern life.

They worked outdoors in order to capture natural colour and light.

Signorini travelled frequently to London and Paris.

Michelangelo Buonarroti | Celestial Love | Sonnet 105

No mortal thing enthralled these longing eyes

When perfect peace in thy fair face I found;

But far within, where all is holy ground,

My soul felt Love, her comrade of the skies:

Non vider gli occhi miei cosa mortale

allor che ne’ bei vostri intera pace

trovai, ma dentro, ov’ogni mal dispiace,

chi d’amor l’alma a sé simil m’assale;