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Maurice Prendergast
Little Bridge, Venice, c.1911 - 1912, watercolour on paper, 38.74 x 48.9 cm, private collection.
Source: worldpaintings
John Singer Sargent
On the Grand Canal, watercolor
Giorgio Kienerk
Italian Painter and Sculptor,1869-1948
Pastel portrait, 1901
Umberto Boccioni
(Italian, 1882-1916)
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Parmigianino, Ritratto di Galeazzo Sanvitale
1529
Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte
Giorgio Kienerk, (Italian Painter and Sculptor,1869-1948)
Scorcio di paese toscano
Olio su tela, cm 45X35
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Herbert Gurschner, Tuscany, 1925
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Stairs to Maria della Catena Church, Naples, 1961 by Herbert List
"Graffito" was a popular form of decoration during the 16th century in Florence. It's obtained by spreading a layer of black stucco or "intonaco" followed by a layer of white stucco. With the use of simple tools the designs were added by etching away the white stucco. In Italiano "graffiare" means to scratch.
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Be still, my beating heart.
"You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years, under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." ~ Lime, as portrayed by Orson Wells in The Third Man
Lunch in Lucca, watercolor by Charles Sluga
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Carlo Crivelli, The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, c. 1470-5. The National Gallery, London
Source: nationalgallery.org.uk
Sacro Cuore di Gesu by GaijinSeb on Flickr.
"A charmingly modest, dimly-lit church that houses the Museo delle Anime dei Defunti - a collection of Bibles & clothes charred by the spectral hands of lost souls."
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PACINO DI BONAGUIDA Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant’Agnese 1320s Tempera and gold on parchment, 438 x 322 mm British Library, London
Saint Catherine of Siena in the Chiesa di San Domenico in Siena, 1526.
Fresco by Antonio Bazzi (il Sodoma) for the side chapel.
"Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire."