Leonardo da Vinci –

Leonardo da Vinci  (1452-1519) .

Italian Renaissance Artists

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived [Wikipedia – English] /  [Wikipedia – Português]

Quotes by Leonardo DaVinci:

“To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God’s grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

 

“The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

 

“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in”

 

“Just as iron rusts from disuse… even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”

 

“Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”

 

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Salvador Dali – (42)

Salvador Dali – (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989)

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol, known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.  – 

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí, was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.

Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters.

His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931.

Dalí’s expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.

Salvador Dali –  [Wikipedia ➜ Salvador Dali –  ]

Quotes by Salvador Dali :  👎  😶 🙄 🤔 😟 😖   👎

“Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.”

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It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

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What is an elegant woman? An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and who has no hair under her arms.

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I like it, murder, because this is courage. It is anti-bourgeois. Murder is closer to heaven, because after becoming ‘remords de conscience’, one prays, one opens the sky, and the angels say, ‘Good morning’!

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You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity. You know, Dalí spent two months in jail in Spain, and these two months were the most enjoyable and happy in my life. Before my jail period, I was always nervous, anxious. I didn’t know if I should make a drawing, or perhaps make a poem, or go to the movies or the theatre, or catch a girl, or play with the boys. The people put me in jail, and my life became divine. Tremendous!

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Ah, UNESCO is the most garbage. Any kind of organization for the good will of the people is impossible. It is necessary for the contrary. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something, you know? If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ig-no-min-i-ously!

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

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Where is the real? All appearance are deceitful, the visible surface is deceptive. I look at my hand.. ..It is nerves, muscles, bones. Let us go deeper: it is molecules and acids. Further still: it is an impalpable waltz of electrons and neutrons. Further still: an immaterial nebula. Who can prove that my hand exists?

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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

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Rembrandt – (40)

Rembrandt – 

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. Known for his self-portraits and biblical scenes he isgenerally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in history.  

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (/ˈrɛmbrænt, -brɑːnt/; Dutch: [ˈrɛmbrɑnt ˈɦɑrmə(n)soːn vɑn ˈrɛin] ( listen); 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

A prolific and versatile master across three media, he is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.

Unlike most Dutch Masters of the 17th century, Rembrandt’s works depict a wide range of style and subject matter, from portraits, self-portraits, to landscapes, genre scenes, allegorical and historical scenes, biblical and mythological themes as well as animal studies.

His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting.

Rembrandt –  [Wikipedia ➜ Rembrandt –  ]

 

Quotes by Rembrandt :

Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

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Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make — the one being Christ’s dead body being laid in the tomb, and the other Christ arising from the dead to the consternation of the guards — these same two pictures are now finished through studious application, so that I am now disposed to deliver the same and so to afford to His Highness. For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed, which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.

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Artwork by Rembrandt :

• The Night Watch – by Rembrandt
• The Storm on the Sea of Galilee – by Rembrandt
• Self-Portrait with Two Circles – by Rembrandt
• The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp – by Rembrandt
• Bathsheba at Her Bath – by Rembrandt
• Danaë – by Rembrandt 
• The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis – by Rembrandt
• The Sampling Officials – by Rembrandt
• The Return of the Prodigal Son – by Rembrandt
• Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph – by Rembrandt 

LINKS: 

http://historylists.org/art/list-of-10-most-famous-rembrandts-paintings.html 

 

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Pablo Picasso – (037)

Pablo Picasso – 

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (1881 – 1973), also known as Pablo Picasso, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France  – 

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, also known as Pablo Picasso (/pɪˈkɑːsoʊ, -ˈkæsoʊ/; Spanish: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso]; 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces at the behest of the Spanish nationalist government during the Spanish Civil War.

Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art

Pablo Picasso –  [Wikipedia ➜ Pablo Picasso –  ]

Quotes by Pablo Picasso :

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.—Pablo Picasso

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Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.—Pablo Picasso

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“It’s not what the artist does that counts. But what he is.”—Pablo Picasso

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“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the songs of a bird?”—Pablo Picasso

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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.—Pablo Picasso

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Artwork

★  Guernica is a mural-sized oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso completed in June 1937.

★ Le Rêve is a 1932 oil painting by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932

★  Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is a 1932 painting by Pablo Picasso, featuring his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. The painting was in the personal collection of Los Angeles art collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for nearly six decades.

★  Dora Maar au Chat  is a 1941 painting by Pablo Picasso. It depicts Dora Maar, the painter’s lover, seated on a chair with a small cat perched on her shoulders. This work is one of the world’s most expensive paintings.

★ Garçon à la Pipe is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during his Rose Period, soon after he settled in the Montmartre section of Paris, France.

★ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a large oil painting created in 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Carrer d’Avinyó in Barcelona

★  The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso created late 1903 – early 1904. It depicts an old, blind, haggard man with threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his guitar, playing in the streets of Barcelona, Spain.

★ Blue Nude, an early 1907 oil painting on canvas by Henri Matisse, is located at the Baltimore Museum of Art as part of the Cone Collection. Matisse painted the nude when a sculpture he was working on shattered.,

★  Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. 1921,

★ Girl before a Mirror is a painting by Pablo Picasso that was painted in March, 1932. The painting has been widely known for its varied interpretations of the lover and the beloved. Girl Before a Mirror was painted during Picasso’s cubism period.,

 

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Michelangelo – (033)

Michelangelo  –

Painter, Architect, Poet, Sculptor (1475–1564), Michelangelo is widely regarded as the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance. Among his works are the “David” and “Pieta” statues and the Sistine Chapel frescoes.   – 

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564) (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[1] Considered as the greatest living artist in his lifetime, he has since been held as one of the greatest artists of all time.[1] Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

A number of Michelangelo’s works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field of interest was prodigious; given the sheer volume of surviving correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.

Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before the age of thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential frescoes in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and The Last Judgment on its altar wall. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At the age of 74, he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter’s Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo’s design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification.

In a demonstration of Michelangelo’s unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive. Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries.

In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino (“the divine one”). One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate[4] Michelangelo’s impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.

Known for :  Sculpture, painting, architecture, and poetry

Notable work: David;  Pietà; The Last Judgment; Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Movement: High Renaissance

Michelangelo – Portrait by Volterra

Michelangelo  – [Wikipedia ➜ Michelangelo ]

Quotes by  Michelangelo :

 

“The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.”

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“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.”

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“I am here in great distress and with great physical strain, and have no friends of any kind, nor do I want them; and I do not have enough time to eat as much as I need; my joy and my sorrow/my repose are these discomforts.”

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A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”

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“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”

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“Critique by creating.”

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“With few words I will make thee understand my soul.”

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“Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.”

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“Genius is eternal patience.”

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“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.”

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Leonardo Da Vinci – (014)

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci; ou simplesmente Leonardo da Vinci, Anchiano, 15 de abril de 1452 – Amboise, 2 de maio de 1519, foi um polímata italiano, uma das figuras mais importantes do Alto Renascimento, que se destacou como cientista, matemático, engenheiro, inventor, anatomista, pintor, escultor, arquiteto, botânico, poeta e músico. É ainda conhecido como o precursor da aviação e da balística. Leonardo frequentemente foi descrito como o arquétipo do homem do Renascimento, alguém cuja curiosidade insaciável era igualada apenas pela sua capacidade de invenção. É considerado um dos maiores pintores de todos os tempos e como possivelmente a pessoa dotada de talentos mais diversos a ter vivido

Quotes by Leonardo DaVinci:

“To lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things it would take off something from God’s grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.”

“The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”

“Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in”

“Just as iron rusts from disuse… even so does inaction spoil the intellect.”

“Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.”