CAGNACCIO DI SAN PIETRO – His real name was Natale Scarpa, but we know him by his pen name: Cagnaccio di San Pietro. Born in Desenzano del Garda in a January day in 1897, he would become a hyper-realist Italian painter. Initially, his creativity had approached to Futurism, briefly, because the Magic Realism had grown inside him.                               CAGNACCIO DI …

FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN 1/3 – He baptized in a church of Extremadura November 7, 1598, was the son a wealthy merchant. Large monastic cycles, devotional works and still lifes, are what he has given us, forever. He was the artist who painted the Counter-religiosity of the Spanish Church of the 17th century. Since 1614 he works as an apprentice in …

It was when a worst nightmare came true that she realised life was too short (and too precious), for compromise, prompting her to stop teaching and start writing. She knows, like no other writer, how to illuminate the intimate, daily, domestic lives of ordinary women and their families. Exciting and elegant, her writing is all of these things, and a …

SAN FELIPE – Poetry by Lee Anne Sittler Don’t watch the blooms make love, the visual screams they make, incongruous, dissonant, cantankerous spirits cascading into cloud wisps, re-forming around María trapped in her chapel. María, don’t watch too closely, in summer, the children swimming in the river; the white houses lapping over the river’s edge like abandoned kittens. Don’t watch …

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …