LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA 1/4 – Dutch born and die English, this is the geographic frame of a painter from the Victorian era. He entered the Royal Academy of Antwerp in Belgium, becaming assistant to the painter and professor Jan de Taeye, whose courses in history. Inside its Merovingian themes you can observe the artist moving by the deepest feeling and the …

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT > They’re both convinced that a sudden feeling united them. It’s beautiful that a certainty, but uncertainty is more beautiful. Not knowing themselves, they believe that it never happened between them. But they think the streets, staircases, hallways where long ago they could interbreed? I would ask them, if they do not remember, once a face …

SONG OF LOVE > And how I will detain my soul, because your not just reach? As I will rise to other spheres, where you most is not? Oh, I would hide it in something, that go missing in the dark alone, in an unknown and silent corner, that does not vibrate more when the rivibrano your depth! But everything …

SATURDAYS > Out there there’s a sunset, dark gem set in time, and a deep blind city of men who did not see you. The night is silent or sings. Someone free longings crucifixes in a plane. Still, the large your beauty. Even when you do not love, your beauty lavishes his miracle in time. It is in you the …

BLUE TREE > When your eyes meet my solitude, silence becomes the fruit, and the storm sleep. Half close doors forbidden, and the water learns to suffer. When my solitude meets your eyes, salt and desire spreads, sometimes insolent tidal wave that runs endlessly, nectar dripping drop by drop, most fiery nectar that a torment, start that never fulfills. When …

A MAP OF EUROPE > As the idea of Leonardo, where gape passages on water droplets, or the dragons lie down in spots, my crumbling wall, into the air clear draw, in the mood of the vein, a map of Europe. On the sill painting, golden rim of a can shines as along a lake of Canaletto in the evening, …

JOHN FREDERICK LEWIS 1/4 – He was a student of his father Frederick Christian (a landscape painter), and to the age of 15 he sold his first painting (a work that represented the animals). This English, who paints in the nineteenth century (during the Romantic period), is known for his paintings oriental, exotic scenes with a Mediterranean flavor, a sea …

http://www.tuscanbreaks.com/Italian/index_italian.htm If you are looking for the place to relax and meditate, maybe you need a refreshing place, perhaps a beautiful place in the center of Italy. Of course, you can also taste the cheese pecorino cheese (along with a good wine), move between beautiful cities (Arezzo, Cortona, Montepulciano, Siena and Assisi), give you a full day in the cradle …