Category Archives: Italian artists

Gare Montparnasse, (The Melancholy of Departure) by Giorgio de Chirico

Posted on January 28, 2013 by

“…One must embrace all forms of art…” With those words from the lecturer who gives us weekly Art History talks still ringing in my ears when I dared query the relevance of Surrealism, Abstract and Performance Art, I will, for … Continue reading →

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Philosophy, a Self Portrait by Salvator Rosa

Posted on December 21, 2012 by

Today’s featured work is another self-portrait, this time by the 17th century Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, Salvator Rosa.  Salvator Rosa was a man of many talents and possibly one of the most daring and inventive artists of the … Continue reading →

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Self-portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel by Sofonisba Anguissola

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

Let me introduce you to a female artist, whom I am ashamed to admit, I had never heard of, but whom Giorgio Vasari, the Italian biographer of artists, made the following comment: “…[She] has shown greater application and better grace … Continue reading →

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La Fornarina by Raphael Sanzio

Posted on December 8, 2012 by

My Daily Art Display today features an Italian lady, Margarita Luti.  She became known as La Fornarina which in Italian means “the baker’s daughter”.  She was the daughter of Francesco Luti, a local baker from Siena who worked in the … Continue reading →

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The Resurrection by Piero della Francesca

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

For today’s blog I am staying with Italian Renaissance art and looking at a work by, some say, the greatest Early Renaissance painter, Piero della Francesca.  This is the second time I have featured this artist in one of my … Continue reading →

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The Transfiguration by Raphael

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

In my last blog I looked at The Raising of Lazarus by Sebastiano del Piombo and talked about how this and a painting by Raphael, entitled Transfiguration, had been commissioned in 1517 by Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici as a high … Continue reading →

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Portrait of Laura Battiferri, wife of the sculptor Bartolomeo Ammannati by Agnolo Bronzino

Posted on June 29, 2012 by

My featured painting bears a strange resemblance to the painting I looked at in my last blog although they were painted about thirty years apart by two different Italian artists.  It is not unusual to see paintings featuring the same … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Woman with a Volume of Petrarch by Andrea del Sarto

Posted on June 24, 2012 by

My blog today centres around three women, an artist and a poet.  The artist in question, and the painter of today’s featured painting, is the Italian artist, Andrea del Sarto. Andrea del Sarto was born in Florence in 1486 and … Continue reading →

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Portrait of a Woman by Bartolomeo Veneto

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

I have over the past blogs featured paintings of a women whose facial beauty I find quite stunning and have commented at length on their great beauty.  Two especially come to mind, Jeunesse Dorée by Gerard Brockhurst (My Daily Art … Continue reading →

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River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl by Salvator Rosa

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

My featured artist today is the 17th century Italian Baroque painter Salvator Rosa.  He was born in 1615 in the small hill town of Arenella above the outskirts of Naples.  His father Vito Antonio was a land surveyor and had … Continue reading →

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