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16/08/2024

CANALETTO 👨‍🎨🎨🇮🇹
Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697 - 1768)
Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, was born in Venice, the son of a theatrical scene painter. He was very influential, famed for his precisely depicted and evocative views of the city (vedute).
He visited England repeatedly between 1746-56, painting works like 'Eton College'. His most important assistant was his nephew Bellotto, who became an accomplished artist. Canaletto often made meticulous preparatory drawings. He may have used a camera obscura for topographical accuracy in creating some of his designs, but he always remained concerned with satisfying compositional design, not simply slavishly recording views.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/canaletto

16/08/2024

" Assumption of the Virgin " from 1516 to 1518
Oil on panel 690 cm × 360 cm
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice⛪️🇮🇹

TITIAN, Tiziano Vecellio or Tiziano VecellI 👨‍🎨🎨🇮🇹
the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school.
(born 1488/90, Pieve di Cadore, Republic of Venice [Italy]—died August 27, 1576, Venice).
He was recognized early in his own lifetime as a supremely talented painter, and his reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Titian......................
" Assumption of the Virgin " from 1516 to 1518
Oil on panel 690 cm × 360 cm
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice⛪️🇮🇹
Titian’s 'Assumption of the Virgin', popularly known as the 'Assunta', is the largest painting on wood panel in the world and among the most influential altarpieces in European art.
The masterpiece is housed in a monumental Istrian stone frame, attributed to Lorenzo and Giambattista Bregno and designed in collaboration with Titian. Modeled on an ancient Roman triumphal arch, the ensemble is topped by three over-life sized sculptures of Saint Francis, Saint Anthony, and Christ the Redeemer.
Extraordinarily innovative, the painting broke with tradition for its sheer size, bold use of color, heroic figure scale, and novel portrayal of the Virgin rising into heaven while the apostles watch in amazement from below.
The basic compositional formula consists of two geometric shapes: the Virgin Mary in a circle, and the amazed apostles in a rectangular block. Titian depicted the ascending Virgin, clad in crimson, in an explosion of brilliant light. The bold color of her robe is echoed in the red worn by two of the apostles below, unifying the two halves of the scene through color. The divine Mary is bathed in gold, while the apostles below are set against a blue sky, further separating the heavenly and earthly spheres. God the Father hovers above with an angel, ready to crown Mary as Queen of Heaven.
The golden half-dome that frames her recalls the ecclesiastical architecture and gold mosaic tesserae of Byzantium, and, of course, the Basilica of San Marco at the very heart of Venice.
https://www.savevenice.org/project/assumption-of-the-virgin?fbclid=IwAR2CEiDaeAyi-MrHoZxYOERrJfj5iw-LXjmdNj2DaC2M2nSvC9V1AKZt7xg
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Titian, Assumption of the Virgin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MzPOrcsWB0

16/08/2024

"Assumption of the Virgin"
painting,religious art between 1404 and 1405.
Stained glass window with the Assumption of the Virgin drawn by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Collection : Florence Cathedral

Lorenzo Ghiberti 🇮🇹
(1378 – 1 December 1455)
born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was a Florentine Italian artist of the Early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, called by Michelangelo the 'Gates of Paradise.'
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"Assumption of the Virgin"
painting,religious art between 1404 and 1405.
Stained glass window with the Assumption of the Virgin drawn by Lorenzo Ghiberti
Collection : Florence Cathedral
The cathedral rose window - an absolute masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti - depicts the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in 28 colourful panels made by Niccolò di Pietro Tedesco, an expert glassmaker, in 1405. This 10 Florentine “braccia” wide – approximately 6 mts – rose window belongs to a complex cycle of 44 stained glass windows hosted inside Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral, the Florentine Duomo.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Niccol%C3%B2_di_piero_tedesco_su_dis._di_ghiberti,_vetrata_dell%27assunta,_1405,_01.JPG
https://www.caftours.com/magazine/florence-cathedral-rose-window-finally-restored/index.html
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assunzione_della_Vergine_(Ghiberti)
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La Porta del Paradiso di Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1425-52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlaar7NVBc

16/08/2024

" High Noon in the Alps " / " Pomeriggio nelle Alpi " 1892
Signature and date bottom right: G Segantini / 1892
oil on canvas height: 860 mm (33.85 in); width: 800 mm (31.49 in)
The Ohara Museum of Art , Kurashiki, Japan 🏦🇯🇵

Giovanni Segantini 🎨🇮🇹
(15 January 1858 – 28 September 1899)
Divisionism manifested itself in 1891 at the Triennale di Brera with the first public exhibition of a group of young artists: Giovanni Seganti, Giuseppe Pellizza de Volpedo, Angelo Morbelli, and Emilio Longoni.
What those artists showed upset and divided art critics and public, not only because they used a new painting technique consisting of juxtaposition of colour spots applied on the canvas, but also because they gave an innovative interpretation of social subjects and nature.
ivisionism is similar to French Pointillism, of which George Seurat is the main proponent. Those painters used not only the basics of Impressionism, but also the colour theory studied by the chemist Chevreul starting from 1840, who noticed how juxtaposition of two colours seemed a unique colour if you looked at it from afar.
https://www.theartpostblog.com/en/divisionism/...................................
" High Noon in the Alps " / " Pomeriggio nelle Alpi " 1892
Signature and date bottom right: G Segantini / 1892
oil on canvas height: 860 mm (33.85 in); width: 800 mm (31.49 in)
The Ohara Museum of Art , Kurashiki, Japan 🏦🇯🇵
https://web.archive.org/web/20191025040058/http://www.ohara.or.jp:80/201001/jp/C/C3a12.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Segantini_-_High_Noon_in_the_Alps_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg?fbclid=IwAR12Lm7YwXLyCNx1RPMzLD6vKvySLP6K7zyO7qiprkMIUHJ2-4UXR36Pl-4
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GIOVANNI SEGANTINI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMtwFvd08VQ

07/08/2024

" Pietà " : Michelangelo 🇮🇹
The 'Pietà' (1498–1499) is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same subject by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was the French ambassador in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the basilica, in the 18th century.

" Pietà " : Michelangelo 🇮🇹
The 'Pietà' (1498–1499) is a key work of Italian Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, now in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same subject by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was the French ambassador in Rome. The sculpture, in Carrara marble, was made for the cardinal's funeral monument, but was moved to its current location, the first chapel on the north side after the entrance of the basilica, in the 18th century. It is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed.
This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion. Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is unprecedented in Italian sculpture. It is an important work as it balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0_(Michelangelo)

07/08/2024

August 7, 1420: The start of construction of the Brunelleschi's dome 🇮🇹

August 7, 1420: The start of construction of the Brunelleschi's dome 🇮🇹
On August 7, 1420 – a banquet with melons and wine inaugurated the construction of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Cathedral’s dome, designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The dome is the symbol of the Italian Renaissance, it has the largest vault made of bricks and the biggest diameter in history of art. Actually, it is the first modern architecture able the overcome the ancient roman buildings!!!
In sixteen years only, less than one hundred skilled workers built this absolute masterpiece of engineering.....We know the dome consisted in two vaults: one supporting the other. Moreover, there are two ribs on the centre and two on the edges of each shell, and a series of horizontal arches between them. The structure is reinforced by hidden chains that surround it. .........We also know that the dome was raised thanks to ingenious machines designed by Brunelleschi himself......
https://duomo.firenze.it/en/opera-magazine/post/5017/august-7-1420-the-start-of-construction-of-the-dome....................................
Il 7 agosto 1420 Brunelleschi inizia la cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore, con metodi antichi ma anche innovativi.
https://www.facebook.com/raicultura.it/videos/705920640200715..............................
Florence Cathedral 4K | Duomo di Firenze and Brunelleschi Dome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cVfP7d3_KE

10/07/2024

Milano e la sua storia
I ❤️ Milano

Foto: 📷

10/07/2024

Milano - Castello Sforzesco
Fu eretto nel XV secolo da Francesco Sforza, divenuto da poco Duca di Milano, sui resti di una precedente fortificazione medievale del XIV secolo nota come Castello di Porta Giovia (o Zobia).
Notevolmente trasformato e modificato nel corso dei secoli, il Castello Sforzesco fu, tra il Cinquecento e il Seicento, una delle principali cittadelle militari d'Europa; restaurato in stile storicista da Luca Beltrami tra il 1890 e il 1905, è oggi sede di istituzioni culturali e di importanti musei.
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_Sforzesco

Milano e la sua storia
I ❤️ Milano

Foto: 📷

02/06/2024

2 giugno. Festa della Repubblica.🇮🇹
June 2 1946 : Italian plebiscite chooses Republic over monarchy -National Day🇮🇹

30/05/2024

Milano
Naviglio Grande, Porta Genova

Photophonico📸