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By Francesca Lungarotti Thanks to UIG contributors Giuseppe Molteni and Roberta Motta, UIG is delighted to highlight one of the lesser-known impressionists: the Italian painter Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 2, 1884). After being expelled from the Academy of Naples in 1863, De Nittis eventually found his way to Paris, arriving in […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi) was born in 1445 and this March will mark his 580thbirthday. Botticelli’s works are known throughout the world and make Florence a temple of his greatness. Sandro Botticelli was one of the most esteemed painters and designers among the artists of the Renaissance. Under the […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti The egg is an element we find represented in archaeology, fine art and architecture since the origins of humanity. It is its animal, human and ancestral nature combined with many symbolic meanings that makes the egg an object of interest. For Piero della Francesca in the Masterpiece ‘Pala di Brera’ the ostrich […]
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Harvest, the season of the gathering of crops. The word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon haerfest (“autumn”) or the Old High German herbist. Harvest has been a season of rejoicing from the remotest times. (Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/topic/harvest) Artists have captured the annual harvest period, so important and celebrated culturally and socially, especially in our earlier […]
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One of the colors most present in Nature is Blue – just think of the sky, the sea, the ice! Blue is all around us in its many shades but yet it is strange to think that In nature, blue pigment is difficult to find! In the early days of art and painting there were […]
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By Francesca Lungarotti The feeling of returning to a place where the only thing that matters is pure love is something that images depicting maternal love and devotion in art have always evoked. Maternal love has always represented a source of artistic inspiration across all eras, cultures, and artistic mediums. While appreciating selections of maternal art, […]
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