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Giovanni Antonio Canal was born in Venice on 1697. His father, Bernardo, was a painter, and Canaletto appears to have assisted him. Canaletto’s name, was inscribed in the register of the Venetian artists’ guild in 1720. He adopted the diminutive “Canaletto” – the little Canal – by the mid-1720s. In 1746 Canaletto departed Venice for England where he worked for …

Although he was considered a controversial figure in his day, he is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Joseph Mallord William Turner, was born on 1775. He was an English Romantic landscape painter, whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. Extraordinarily inventive and enduringly influential, he …

Claude Monet, was a famous French painter whose work gave a name to the art movement Impressionism, which was concerned with capturing light and natural forms. He was born on 1840, in Paris. After 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style “Impression,” since it was more concerned with form and light than realism. He struggled with depression and illness …

CARLO SALOMONI 1/3 – He is an Italian artist, born in December day in Ferrara. He is a graduate from the medical faculty, but decides to leave the medical activity, becoming a professional artist. His paintings are mentioned in art catalogues and auctions. All his paints, have origin in surrealism, art fantasy and magic realism. Looking his paints, you can …

AFTER TRYING MANY YEARS After trying many years, and then near death, the able man may know an image living in the alpine stone. If at all, the high and new come slowly, and, for us, they do not last so long. Oh my beloved! Nature’s like that too, who tried for beauty times untold until she triumphed, and made …

Helping children and families, the Innocenti in Florence has worked uninterruptedly for over six centuries, like citizen institution dedicated to taking in children. The institute waiting for you in the old hospital in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, where you can find the precious complex of the Museo degli Innocenti. http://www.istitutodeglinnocenti.it/?q=content/home To protect the rights of childhood and adolescence, but also …

CECILIA BEAUX 1/3 – She – an American society portraitist – have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle, and really become one of the most famous portrait painters of her era. At age 16, she began art lessons, and produced decorative art and small portraits (also gave private art lessons). In 1876, Beaux began attending the Pennsylvania Academy of …

Her special gift (her grandmother), bestows a sense of mystical connection to the Moravians. Hilda Doolittle was born into the Moravian community of her artistic mother, in Pennsylvania, and reared in a Philadelphia. There, her father was director of the Flower Observatory. Her “The Gift” is cast in the voice of a child, who is cognizant of own dreams and …

Her first story was published in 1868. Her main talent as a writer? It was to blend a romantic plot with realistic details of the working class. Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English born playwright and author. After her father died, her family emigrated to the United States. It was there that she began writing. The statue depicts her two …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time of your life. Meeting Benches. The way to making the world a better place is easy. Where Guggenheim Museums? New York, Venice and Bilbao! Solomon R. Guggenheim, founded the Guggenheim Foundation to foster also for you an appreciation …

She was born to wealth, because her paternal grandfather developed the cotton industry of Massachusetts, where two towns (Lowell and Lawrence), are named for the families. Amy Lowell began a lifelong habit of book collecting, accepting a marriage proposal, but the young man set his heart on another woman. She went to Europe and Egypt, to improve her health. 1910, …

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When she was a little angel, her mother wanted a girl child who can become a writer. Her mother believed in pre-natal influences (according to her, parents could influence the soul personality of their little angel child). Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on a farm in Wisconsin, becoming an American poet, and “Poems of Passion” was her best-known work, and …