Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)

Simon Glücklich was born in Bielitz, Germany (now Poland) in 1863.

Son of decorator painter Leo Glücklich, Simon Glücklich attended high school in Bielitz and then studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1880-1890 and from 1885-1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).

Pedro Salinas | I look for you! / Al di là della gente ti cerco!

Yes, behind other people

I look for you.

Not in your name if they say it,

not in your image if they paint it.

Behind, behind, beyond.

Francisco Ribera Gómez (Spanish painter, 1907-1996)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard | A Young Scholar, 1778

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter🎨 and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance and hedonism.

One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings (not counting drawings and etchings), of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings.

Auguste Leroux | Figurative / Genre painter

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux (1871-1954) was a French painter and illustrator. His younger brother Georges Paul Leroux (1877-1957) was also a brilliant artist who won the Prix de Rome in painting in 1906 and was a member of the Académie des Beaux-arts.

Jules Marie Auguste Leroux was born in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris on 14 April 1871, during the Commune.

Angele Dubos (1844-1916)

Angèle Dubos born Laure Constance Angèle Dubos was a student of the great painter Charles Chaplin (1825-1891)🎨, which opens a course devoted solely to women artists🎨, among which we can mention Mary Cassatt🎨 and Louise Abbéma.

Chaplin encourages its students to participate. She is the first winner🎨 of the contest that gets the gold medal.

18th century Inventions

Piano by Bartolomeo Cristofori, 1726

The inventions of the 18th century made the modern world that we live in possible.

The 18th century was a time of innovation. The industrial revolution would not be possible if it were not for the men who created the inventions to make life easier and more productive.

Some inventions were improvements on older machinery.

1700s

1701 ‣ Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709 ‣ Bartolomeo Cristofori crafts the first piano.
1709 ‣ Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the alcohol thermometer.

Salvatore Quasimodo / Fabian Perez | Mi chiedi parole..

Mi chiedi parole. Ma il tempo

precipita come un masso sulla mia anima

che vuole certezze, e più non ha sillabe

da offrire se non quelle silenziose

del sangue legate al tuo nome,

o mia vita, mio amore senza fine.