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Gino Pellegrini (1941 – 20 December 2014) was an Italian film set designer and painter. Born in Lugo di Vicenza , at age 16 Pellegrini moved to Los Angeles , where he attended the architecture course at UCLA and then achieved a master's degree in Fine Arts. [ 1 ]
The work follows a typical scheme of Perugino's art. The divinity, in this case the resurrected Jesus, is depicted within a mandorla occupying the upper part of the painting, among angels. The lower part shows, above a landscape in the background, the open sarcophagus and several Roman soldiers, three of whom are sleeping and one awakened by ...
Odysseus at the Court of Alcinous is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, [1] painted between 1814 and 1816 and now in the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples. It was commissioned for Gioacchino Murat by Naples' interior minister Giuseppe Zurlo , using dimensions, price and subject specified by Hayez's patron ...
Edward B. Garrison (1900–1981) was an American art historian who specialised in medieval Italian painting, publishing landmark books on the subject. He compiled a large collection of photographs to illustrate his books, which he donated to the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Metaphysical Painting is an Italian art movement, born in 1917 with the work of Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico in Ferrara. The word metaphysical, adopted by De Chirico himself, is core to the poetics of the movement. Sphere Within Sphere by Arnaldo Pomodoro. Pesaro
The painting depicts an incident in the Odyssey, the epic poem by Homer which recounts the Greek hero Odysseus' 10 year long return journey home from the Siege of Troy. A blind giant Cyclops, Polyphemus, is preparing to hurl a large rock at the escaping boat of Odysseus and his crew. Odysseus in return is taunting him from the stern of the vessel.
Roberto Ferruzzi (Italian: [roˈbɛrto ferˈruttsi]; 16 December 1853 – 16 February 1934) [1] was a Dalmatian Italian artist. He is best known for the painting Madonnina [2] that won the second Venice Biennale in 1897.