Author Travels

MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / MADRID – Museo del Prado: Maja Desnuda and Maja Vestida, by Francisco Goya

He was born on 1746 in Fuendetodos, Spain. He began his art studies as a teenager (and even spent time…

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WITH HEADPHONES IN HEAD – David Bowie at MAMbo of Bologna, until November 13, 2016

A special museum, a structure that allows you to retrace the history of Italian art of the last half century…

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WITH THE EYES OF BENOZZO – A virtual trip that can become real, through the lands where the Italian Renaissance was born

The year 1420 (MCDXX) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, but someone special was born.…

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SOMETHING FOREVERYONE IN DENMARK – Midsummer Night near Vejle Fjordis, painting by Harald Slott-Møller

It is approximately 22 km in length, and stretches east from the town of Vejle at the head to the…

8 years ago

SUMMER’S DAYS AND NUDE WOMEN – Ten expressive shades of Danish painters

C.W. Eckersberg /A nude woman doing her hair before a mirror 1841 – In the cool light and with classical…

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / THE HAGUE – Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring

Regarded as Vermeer's masterpiece, this canvas is often referred to as the Mona Lisa of the North or the Dutch…

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / PARIGI – Leonardo da Vinci, La Gioconda

Lisa was born in Florence on June 15 1479. She was named Lisa, like a wife of her paternal grandfather.…

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / CHICAGO – George Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

The painting has precise geometric rules, but the most important is symmetry with respect to the central axis, determined by…

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / AMSTERDAM – Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn: The Night Watch

No, it is not a picture. Almost like a photographer, a famous painter has captured an image, without people he…

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MASTERPIECES OF ART IN THE CENTURIES / ROME – Raphael: The School of Athens

Fifty-eight are the characters depicted in the fresco. Plato and Aristotle are in the center of the composition. Even your…

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