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Last chapter of the trilogy "Leonardo’s life". Werecked the star of Cesare Borgia, Leonardo returns to Florence. His fellow citizens do not love him. They are divided among those who …

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 – 1898) was a Russian painter. He was born in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army. Yaroshenko chose a m …

Rembrandt produced etchings for most of his career, from 1626 to 1660, when he was forced to sell his printing-press and virtually abandoned etching.. He took easily to etching and, though he also le …

Jan van Scorel was a Flemish artist from the northern part of the Netherlands who is one of the leading figures of the romanticism movement in the Flemish Renaissance painting. Undoubtedly, his great …

In this complete chapter of my book ‘Drawing By Observation”, the Basic and Complete Course, we observe … Why in the Academies  we have to balls and plaster statues… and we learn how to draw …

22 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 6 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: ‘Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was …

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Even though Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres regarded himself to be an artist of the past in the tradition of Jacques-Louis David and Pou …

WAKE UP EVERYTHING, AGAIN! for a new infrastructure of art and reality… WAKE UP to (i)reality! we are small in a huge universe. we live in a lovely horror of death. flies conquering empires of dust …

Eyes wide open is a collection of Mario Calabresi's interviews with renowned international photographers: Steve Mc Curry, Josef Koudelka, Don Mc Cullin, Elliott Erwitt, Paul Fusco, Alex Webb, Gab …

Carl Larsson (1853 – 1919) was a Swedish painter and interior designer, representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He considered his f …