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Read More »SPEAKING ABOUT LOVE – Italian Renaissance poetry, when nothing’s sure about tomorrow
The most notable Italian writers, who contributed to the flowering of poetry were Marsilio Ficino and Angelo Poliziano, but later Renaissance literary achievements include some special books (such as the Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato, Baldassare Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier, and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso). Number of women writers and poets arose that time too (best known are …
Read More »THE BOTTICELLI SPRING – Museum of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
She was born between 1477 and 1482. This wonderful work of art was painted for a man named Pierfrancesco, cousin of Lorenzo dei Medici. Pictorially, this Spring http://www.florence-museum.com/ is very refined work, partly because full of hundreds of types of flowers. Whoever watch it, remains entranced with this art created by Sandro Botticelli. Perhaps it is the use of color, …
Read More »PICTORIAL LANDSCAPES OF THE KINGDOM OF VENUS – The soft hills around Florence
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Read More »SWEET SOUNDS OF THE SPRING
Try to tune into the sounds of spring. To encourage all of us to get outdoors Jason Singh has vocally recreated the nation’s best-known songbirds. Before creating the album, he visited National Trust places which features birds and wildlife (including blackbirds and robins, woodpeckers, owls, frogs and crickets). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDDaCO32Ipg The Sound of Spring, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAn–Mu4Vgk is the album of compositions related …
Read More »SPRING SHADES IN BOOKS AND MUSIC
At the spring equinox days are 12 hours long with day length increasing as the season progresses. It’s springtime outside, slugger. It’s springtime and soon all the trees will have leaves. Cherry trees bloom in the springtime. Springtime synonyms? Blossom, florescence, floruit, flower, flush, heyday, high noon, prime, salad days. Springtime refers also to ideas of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection …
Read More »WORDS WITH FRAGRANCE OF SPRING
Spring time is calling you. Your world becomes filled with color and the scent of delicious greenery. Spring gives you hope for rejuvenation. https://www.amazon.com/Spring-Poems-Grande-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811216853 It is time to renew the excitement. It is a miraculous experience, because the whole world comes alive after the winter, in which it seemed, everything was dead. The world, that seemed so dull and cold, …
Read More »CLAUDE MONET, MORE THAN JUST A FOUNDER OF IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING
CLAUDE MONET 1/3 – One of his most famous Spring-related pieces is titled The Spring. In order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons, his ambition of documenting the countryside led him to adopt a method of painting – the same scene many times. The Earth was Monet’s muse. He was more than just a …
Read More »WHEN PAINTINGS REVEAL AFFINITY FOR THE SEASON OF NEW BEGINNINGS – The Claude Monet’s Springs
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Read More »BREATHE WITH YOUR EYES – Paint the spring
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Read More »VIRTUAL MUSEUM AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITION – Sharing History at the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Neue Burg -Heldenplatz, 1010 Wien) – one of the world’s foremost fine arts museums, https://www.khm.at/en/ enriches your Vienna itinerary. To design this special exhibitions, the curators had access to a database of 2,490 objects (specially brought together for this project). Entering into to the virtual museum, you can also use this database, to conduct further research. Through the …
Read More »A BOY, WHO COMES FROM AFAR – The Young of the Magdalensberg at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Noricum was the Latin name for a Celtic kingdom, which in the first century AD became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube on the north, Raetia and Vindelicia on the west, Pannonia on the east and southeast and Italia (Venetia and Histria) on the south. This kingdom had its capital at the royal residence at …
Read More »TRANSLATING BODILY SENSATION INTO A VISUAL LANGUAGE – The strange bodies of Maria Lassnig
MARIA LASSNIG 1/3 – She was an Austrian artist, known for her theory of body awareness. The starting-point while painting: the only true reality are her feelings, played out within the confines of her body. She, one of the most significant and innovative painters on the contemporary art scene was born in Carinthia in 1919. http://meetingbenches.com/2017/03/carinthias-inner-landscapes/ Her mother gave birth …
Read More »MARIA LASSNIG (1919/2014), AUSTRIAN PAINTER – The body awareness
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Read More »CARINTHIA’S INNER LANDSCAPES
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