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While in France the Impressionists had already been active for some years and their fame was spreading, in Italy this artistic current was still almost completely unknown. Until 1878, when Promotrice Fiorentina introduced also two Impressionist works in an exhibition. Promotrice Fiorentina was ......continue »

When it comes to the Impressionists, names like Degas, Manet, Renoir or Pissarro immediately come to mind, but hardly anyone thinks of Gustave Caillebotte, another Impressionist who painted important works like his most famous colleagues.  Impressionism is one of the most important artistic cu......continue »

If we think of Impressionism, Pierre Auguste Renoir is one of the first names that come to mind. He was one of the main exponents of the Impressionist movement, a pioneer of an era in which "en plein air" painting and the desire to emerge of the artists who had embraced the Impressionist moveme......continue »

Surely someone still remembers the day when Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" was stolen from the Ricci Oddi Gallery in Piacenza. It was February 6, 1997 when the art world was shocked by the theft of the famous painting by the Austrian artist. The painting, made in the same period in which ......continue »

Many impressionists have spent more or less long periods in Italy and among them there is also Claude Monet, one of the leading exponents of the Impressionist movement.  In this case we are talking about Liguria, a region chosen by the painter to find inspiration in 1884. During his stay in we......continue »

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known worldwide as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and co-founder of "Neoplasticism". His paintings have often been trivialized and at the same time imitated, but in reality, his works denote a certain complexity and among his most famous paintings there is "Compos......continue »

Among the most popular destinations for art lovers there is Amsterdam, full of museums that host priceless works of art. Among them there is also the Van Gogh Museum, which houses about 200 paintings and over 500 prints. Here are the most beautiful paintings signed by the Dutch painter, kept at......continue »

The beginning of the 20th century was a period in which Germany strongly influenced international painting. During that period a new artistic current was born, Expressionism, a style characterized by a strong chromatic accentuation and incisiveness.  Especially the first years of the 20th cent......continue »

The discoveries about Leonardo Da Vinci and his works never end and this time at the centre of attention is a small painting kept in Valencay Castle, located in the centre of France.  According to the latest reconstructions, this painting represents the portrait of Niccolò Machiavelli and the ......continue »