Édouard Manet, morto a Parigi il 30 aprile 1883, è stato il maggiore interprete della pittura pre-impressionista. Nella sua passione per il nudo femminile si cela anche la sua storia d’amore con la modella Victorine Meurent, la musa dai capelli rossi, che appare nel provocatorio Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1863) A destare scalpore in questo quadro… Read More Manet e la sua modella🎨
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899 – 29 April 1980) was one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and the father of the thriller genre. He was a master of pure cinema, able to reconcile aesthetics with the demands of the box-office. He used of the camera angle to draw the viewer’s… Read More 40th anniversary of Hitchcock’s death
Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 –2015) English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels. ♠ “ It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.” (The Last Continent) ♠ “Si dice che la tua vita ti si srotoli davanti agli occhi appena prima di morire. È… Read More Life
🔴”No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” (A Vindication of the Rights of Men – 1790) ⭕ “Nessun uomo sceglie il male perché è il male; lo scambia solo per la felicità, per il bene che cerca” Mary Wollstonecraft was born in London on… Read More Mary Wollstonecraft
April 26 was the birth date of both Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (who was born in 121 and died in 180 AD) and Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic artist (who was born in 1798 and died in 1863) In his 1844 painting “The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius”, Delacroix represented the emperor as an… Read More Marcus Aurelius and Delacroix 🎨
Questa lastra di marmo, che si trova nell’atrio del municipio di Cuneo, e in altri Comuni, fu affissa a fine 1952, pochi mesi la scarcerazione il generale nazista Albert Kesselring, capo delle forze di occupazione tedesche in Italia dal 1943 al 1945. Questi venne condannato a morte per crimini di guerra (Fosse Ardeatine, Marzabotto… Read More “Lapide ad ignominia”
VERSE 1 What about sunrise What about rain What about all the things that you said We were to gain What about killing fields Is there a time What about all the things That you said were yours and mine In the first verse Michael Jackson begins with very natural images, such as sunrise and… Read More 🎶 Earth Song 🎶 (2. analysis)
What about sunrise What about rain What about all the things that you said We were to gain What about killing fields Is there a time What about all the things That you said were yours and mine Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we’ve shed before Did you ever stop… Read More 🎶Earth Song🎶 (1)
On 20 April 1841, Edgar Allen Poe‘s story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” was published in Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, where the writer was working as an editor. He had originally titled it “Murders in the Rue Trianon” but then decided that the new title was better associated with death. This tale is… Read More E. A. Poe & “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
Fernando Botero Angulo, pittore, scultore e disegnatore, noto per il suo peculiare stile figurativo fatto di volumi dilatati all’eccesso e di forme insolite, è nato a Medellín, in Colombia, martedì 19 aprile 1932 ✿ “Un artista è attratto da certi tipi di forme senza saperne il motivo. Prima adotto una posizione per istinto, e solo… Read More Buon compleanno, Botero!
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