Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Le Vieux Musicien (The Old Musician) 1862 Oil on canvas, 187.4 x 248.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington In a review of the 1846 Salon, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire urged artists to depict “the heroism…
(1928–2020) Works: • Greatest Hits Filmography as Composer: Addio fratello crudele 1971 Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Oliver Tobias La donna della domenica 1975 Director: Luigi Comencini Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset L’eredità Ferramonti 1976 Director: Mauro Bolognini…
(1917–2013) Works: • The Best of Armando Trovajoli (Vol. 1) Filmography as Composer: I mostri 1963 Director: Dino Risi Starring: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman Matrimonio all’italiana 1964 Director: Vittorio De Sica Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni …
(1813–1883) Wilhelm Richard Wagner Works: • Das Rheingold (The Ring of the Nibelung) (1869) • Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (1843) • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg) (1868) • Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) (1870) • Götterdämmerung…
(1911–1979) Giovanni Rota Rinaldi Works: • 8½ (1963) • Amarcord (1973) • Boccaccio 70 (1962) • Death on the Nile (1978) • Giulietta degli spiriti (1965) • I Clowns (1971) • Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (1976) • Il Gattopardo…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme espagnole avec guitare (Young Spanish Woman with Guitar) 1898 Oil on canvas, 55.6 x 65.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A young woman with pale, peachy skin and flushed cheeks sits facing our right…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Musical Company 1626 Oil on panel, 63.5 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The subject of this painting is a mystery: is it an exhortation to praise God through singing and string music, or a scene of seduction with…
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) Gloria di san Mercuriale (Glory of Saint Mercurial) c.1642–1644 Oil on canvas, 410 x 231 Pinacoteca Civica, Forlì
Guercino (1591-1666) L’estasi di San Francesco (The Ecstasy of St. Francis) c.1623–1625 Oil on canvas, 162 x 127 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden