Since we're in a 16th century frame of mind thanks to #BookWormSat, my weird picture of the day is one of Fabrizio Riccardi's illustrations for Rabelais' 'Pantagruel'. Riccardi is a contemporary Italian #surrealist.
#weird #weirdart #surrealism #ItalianArt #artsky #Rabelais
Now the vernal equinox is here, we're really looking forward to more color in the world!
Nicholas Briganti (1861-1944) Italian Pines
#nicholasbriganti #art #arteditalia #antique #antiqueart #antiques #langtrygallery #italianart #antiquario #arte #antiquités #kunst #springequinox #vernalequinox
The work of Giorgio de Chirico represents an unexpected form of classicism in early avant-garde painting. This canvas, one of six in a series, combines a Mediterranean cityscape with still-life objects. Familiar elements appear in many of de Chirico’s paintings like pieces of a mysterious puzzle: a classical arcade, oddly oversize artichokes, a cannon and cannonballs, a clock, an industrial brick chimney, a monumental tower, a running train, and a square-rigged sailing ship. Here the stage set for this extraordinary juxtaposition of objects is an Italian piazza, virtually deserted except for the menacing shadowy figures outside the edge of the scene. De Chirico represented objects with a matter-of-fact, though intentionally crude, precision. He painted his scenes flatly, in bright colors, and illuminated them with a cold white light. Rendered in this clear style, works like The Philosopher’s Conquest seem rife with meaning, though they remain resolutely enigmatic. Indeed, by juxtaposing incongruous objects, the artist sought to produce a metaphysical quality, what he called “art that in certain aspects resembles … the restlessness of myth.” De Chirico’s works would profoundly affect the Surrealists, who in the 1920s and 1930s attempted to portray dreams and images of the subconscious in their work.
The Philosopher’s Conquest
oil on canvas
1913–14
Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978)
Italian, born Greece
#surrealism #surrealistart #dechirico #thephilosophersconquest #oilpainting #c1913 #art #modernart #italianart #italianmodernism #modernism
Two young women with light skin sit close together on a broad gray rock at the edge of a still pond. They’re framed by dense green foliage of large leaves, tangled stems, and thin branches that arc down like a soft curtain. The woman on the left has long brown hair gathered back with small gold accents. She wears a pale, off-shoulder dress that pools in luminous folds over the stone, and a small hoop earring catches the light. Her body turns toward her companion, chin lifted, as if mid-sentence or listening intently. The woman on the right has dark, curly hair held by a band. She wears a rose-pink sleeveless bodice and a red patterned skirt, cinched with a dark belt, plus a blue-green necklace. She leans in with an open, attentive posture, one arm relaxed on a knee, her gaze steady on the other woman’s face. Behind them, a misty landscape opens to show a tall waterfall that drops into a gorge, with faint buildings far in the distance, softened by haze. Italian artist Gustavo Mancinelli stages intimacy as the subject: not spectacle, not courtship, but the quiet gravity of women speaking to one another where the world feels safely far away. The waterfall and drifting mist add a sense of the sublime (and nature’s scale), yet the emotional center stays small and human via a shared pause, a held gaze, and the comfort of being heard. In 1873, Mancinelli was in the phase of his career where he was based in Naples and actively participating in the city’s main exhibition circuit, especially the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti (Naples). This scene echoes 19th-century genre painting’s interest in everyday narratives, while subtly shifting power toward women’s interior lives with conversation as agency and companionship as refuge. The distant architecture reads almost like “society” pushed to the horizon, while the foreground offers a private clearing where attention, trust, and selfhood can unfold in real time.
"Women Talking" by Gustavo Mancinelli (Italian) - Oil on canvas / 1873 - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (Hungary) #WomenInArt #GustavoMancinelli #Mancinelli #MuseumofFineArtsBudapest #SzépművészetiMúzeum #artText #art #BlueskyArt #PortraitofWomen #MuseumOfFineArts #ItalianArt #ItalianArtist #MFAB
Caravaggio fa il suo ritorno STORICO in Italia al 📍Palazzo Venezia il 15 marzo per l’uscita di 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙤: 𝙑𝙤𝙡 𝐼𝐼.
L’evento è gratuito. Ci saranno:
Firma del libro, Buffet aperto, Arte storica, e storico ospite
⏰6pm
15 marzo
#graphicnovel #booksigningevent #queerart #italianart #writersofbluesky
Happy Lunar New Year!
Leonetto Cappiello's superb 1910 poster for Cinzano vermouth
#art #antique #antiqueart #leonettocappiello #vintageillustration #cinzano #1910s #advertisingart #lunarnewyear #italianart #arteditalia #antiqueillustration #langtrygallery #antiquario #arte #antiquités #kunst
Caravaggio, "Basket of Fruit," oil on canvas, c.1597-1600; Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan. #caravaggio #traditionalart #classicalpainting #classicalart #stillllife #paintings #peintures #art #arte #museum #italianart #artgallery
A figure of Death with a bloody scythe wears a gown with black, stylised owls upon it.
Weird picture of the day: Augusto Roma 'La Vittoriosa', 1915. If I'm right about the design on its gown, this is also suitable for #OwlishMonday.
#weird #weirdart #ItalianArt #artsky #Gothic
A giant skull-faced figure representing Death beats a drum while walking a cross a landscape strewn with corpses.
Weird picture of the day: an allegory of War by Antonio Rizzi, 1914.
#weirdart #ItalianArt #FirstWorldWar #Death
Opening on Thursday 12th February at 6 p.m.
Fondazione del Banco di Napoli.
In the video: resin/copper element from my new painting “La piuma bianca” (The White Feather).
#contemporaryart #artexhibition #italianart #figurativepaintings #artoftheday #epoxyresin #experimentalart
The Dead Christ Mourned by Two Angels
1617-18
Oil on copper, 39 x 44 cm
National Gallery, London
#Art #Painting #Baroque #Guercino #ItalianArt #DeadChrist
Painted by Italian artist Girolamo di Benvenuto in Siena, Italy around 1508, this portrait turns luxury into biography via a transparent veil, pearls, and jewel-bright pendant that signal wealth, against an empty black backdrop that keeps attention on her steadiness. A young adult woman with very light skin is shown from the chest up. Her body turns slightly while her head tips back toward our right, so she meets us sideways, looking from the corners of brown eyes under faint arched brows. Her features are delicate including a long narrow nose, softly rounded cheeks, and pale pink lips with a hint of dimples and a small cleft chin. Blond hair is drawn back beneath a sheer, gauzy veil that drapes over her shoulders in translucent folds, held by a narrow band around the crown. She wears an asparagus-green gown with a tightly laced bodice over a white chemise. White fabric is pulled through at the shoulders where sleeves would be tied on. The neckline and edges shimmer with gold bands patterned in tiny floral and geometric motifs, echoed by a gold belt at her waist. She wears necklace strand of pearls with a gem-set pendant of red and blue stones ending in three hanging pearls and a second star-linked chain tucked into her bodice. One hand is lifted and lightly cupped near her chest, as if pausing mid-gesture. A painted gold border with knot-like geometry frames the panel. The lifted, lightly cupped hand feels like a practiced pause or an embodied kind of “voice” in a world where many women’s public speech and movement were constrained. Details of her dress like tight lacing and the suggestion of detachable sleeves show fashion as identity and family investment, often linked to portraits made at the threshold of adulthood, even though this woman’s name is unknown. Some painting owners called her “Petrarch’s Laura,” but the painting itself resists any certainty. Instead, it balances ornament with privacy to leave her dignified, present, and intentionally enigmatic.
“Ritratto di giovane donna (Portrait of a Young Woman)” by Girolamo di Benvenuto (Italian) - Oil on poplar panel / c. 1508 - National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) #WomenInArt #NationalGalleryofArt #GirolamodiBenvenuto #Benvenuto #ItalianRenaissance #art #artText #arte #RenaissanceArt #ItalianArt
Painting of the battle of Romano by Paolo Uccello. The central figure is Niccolo Mauruzi da Tolentino. One of three paintings coveted by Lorenzo de’Medici. He bought one but he forcibly removed the other two to the Palazzo Medici #ItalianArt #nationalgallery
The Pistoia Santa Trinità Altarpiece is egg tempera, tempera grassa and oil on wood painting, begun by Pesellino and completed by Fra Filippo Lippi and his workshop. #Pistoia #Altarpiece #ItalianArt @nationalgalleryldn.bsky.social
Santi di Tito --Vision of St Thomas Aquinas -- 1593 -- Oil on panel -- San Marco, Florence
If I ever get to Florence again, this will be on my my Must See list.
#Art #Painting #ItalianArt #FlorentineArt #SantiDiTito #VisionOfStThomasAquinas #16thCenturyArt #Countermannerism
CONGRATULATIONS! Looted: Rescuing Italy's Stolen Treasures has won an Earphones Award! Read the full Kirkus audiobook review!
Kirkus Audiobook Review: [https://tinyurl.com/mr3964w8]
#Looted #FrancesVieta #ItalianArt #Italy #VaticanArt #Vatican #Art #TrueStory #Audiobook
Museo Arte Italiano de Lima, Perú. Lo que ves acá es el frontis y algunas de las obras que tiene el Museo de Arte italiano en #LimaPeru Este lugar tiene algunas obras clásicas de artistas italianos que influenciaron al #peru con su arte. . #jomigacitrip . #italianart #artlife #travelllers
Museo Arte Italiano de Lima, Perú. Lo que ves acá es el frontis y algunas de las obras que tiene el Museo de Arte italiano en #LimaPeru Este lugar tiene algunas obras clásicas de artistas italianos que influenciaron al #peru con su arte. . #jomigacitrip . #italianart #artlife #travelllers
Museo Arte Italiano de Lima, Perú. Lo que ves acá es el frontis y algunas de las obras que tiene el Museo de Arte italiano en #LimaPeru Este lugar tiene algunas obras clásicas de artistas italianos que influenciaron al #peru con su arte. . #jomigacitrip . #italianart #artlife #travelllers
Museo Arte Italiano de Lima, Perú. Lo que ves acá es el frontis y algunas de las obras que tiene el Museo de Arte italiano en #LimaPeru Este lugar tiene algunas obras clásicas de artistas italianos que influenciaron al #peru con su arte. . #jomigacitrip . #italianart #artlife #travelllers
Museo Arte Italiano de Lima, Perú.
Lo que ves acá es el frontis y algunas de las obras que tiene el Museo de Arte italiano en #LimaPeru
Este lugar tiene algunas obras clásicas de artistas italianos que influenciaron al #peru con su arte.
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#jomigacitrip
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#italianart #artlife #travelllers
A book entitled "Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States, by William N. Morgan. The cover is in black with white and blue highlights, white titles and a decorative grid showing sections of maps and ancient emblems.
A book entitled "Il Neoclassicism in Italia da Tiepolo a Canova", published by Skira. The cover shows a marble relief sculpture with dancing figures.
A large format book about trains, entitled "Steam with Variations". The author is Richard F. Lind. The cover photo in sepia tones shows a train moving through a landscape under a cloudy sky.
A book entitled "Sculpture and Cosmology in Ancient Guerrero". The black cover shows a partial view of a figural sculpture. Titles appear in white.
Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#BookSelling #booksky #earthworks #PrehistoricArchitecture #AncientWorld #Neoclassicism #ItalianArt #trains #railroad #SteamEngine #MexicanArt #Guerrero #MesoAmerica #archaeology
HAPPY RELEASE DAY!! Looted: Rescuing Italy’s Stolen Treasures by Frances Vieta and narrated by Lisa Flanagan is NOW available on audible [ tinyurl.com ] or Downpour [https://www.downpour.com/products/book-xzw3%5C]
#Looted #ComingSoon #PreOrderNow #FrancesVieta #ItalianArt
Atlas
1646
oil on canvas
Guercino
Museo Bardini, Florence
#atlas #oilpainting #italianart #guercino #museobardini #florence #dated1646
Two ceramic vases set atop a black lacquered tabletop, one vase shaped as a lion, one as a tiger.
Today’s Art… Lions and Tigers, Oh, My! Two whimsical vases by Mid-Century Italian ceramicist Marcello Fantoni, early 1950’s.
#ceramics #antiques #art #ItalianArt #MCM #MidCentury #Modern #ModernArt
Giotto's breathtaking frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel were painted by an artist born in a small Italian village around 1267. #RandomFact #ArtHistory #RenaissanceArt #ItalianArt #MedievalArt
The vacationers (1934 #AntonioDonghi 1897-1963 fue un #pintor #italiano, especializado en escenas de vida privada, paisajes y naturalezas muertas.
#italianartist #italianart #italy #figurativeart #museoparticular
www.artpal.com/Abdellahagra...
#RomeColosseum #ItalianArt #SunsetVibes #RomanEmpire #TravelPrint #VintageWatercolor #ItalyDecor #HistoricalArt #WallArtInspo #Colosseo #DramaticSky #EuropeanTravel #ClassicalDecor #AncientRome #ArtPrint
