(1938–2013) Filmography as Actor: Il Gattopardo 1963 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale Speriamo che sia femmina 1986 Director: Mario Monicelli Starring: Liv Ullmann, Catherine Deneuve Born September 2 1938 Roma (Italia) Died October 1 2013 Civitavecchia (Italia)…
(1906–1988) Paolo Stoppa, OMRI Filmography as Actor: Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1960 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori Il Gattopardo 1963 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale Born June 6 1906 Roma (Italia) Died May 1…
(1910–1982) Filmography as Actress: Gruppo di famiglia in un interno 1974 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger L’innocente 1976 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli Born August 13 1910 Roma (Italia) Died October…
(1930–1989) Filmography as Actress: Edipo re 1967 Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Starring: Silvana Mangano, Franco Citti Morte a Venezia 1971 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano Ludwig 1972 Director: Luchino Visconti Starring: Helmut Berger,…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Flora c.1654 Oil on canvas, 100 x 91.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Unlike many of his ambitious contemporaries, Rembrandt never traveled to Italy. Nonetheless, Italian art had a profound effect on him; in this depiction of…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Storia di Lucrezia (The Story of Lucretia) c.1500 Tempera and oil on panel, 83.8 x 176.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston According to legend, Lucretia’s brutal rape and tragic suicide precipitated the foundation of the Roman Republic. Botticelli…
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Storia di Virginia Romana (The Story of Virginia) c.1505 Tempera on panel, 83.3 x 165.5 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Botticelli embodies the cultured and antiquing climate that reigned in the Florence of Lorenzo the Magnificent. The painting, which is…
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Une Mendiante romaine (A Roman Beggar Woman) 1857 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 75.2 cm Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
(236 BC–183 BC) Consul of Rome (205 BC, 194 BC) Scipio Africanus in Art: Bellini, Giovanni (c.1430-1516) Continenza di Scipione after 1506 National Gallery of Art, Washington Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere c.1504 National Gallery, London Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) Continence of Scipio…
(70 BC–19 BC) Publius Vergilius Maro Works: • Aeneidos (Latin) ◊ The Aeneid (English) • Eclogae (Latin) ◊ The Bucolics and Eclogues (English) • Georgicon (Latin) ◊ The Georgics (English) Quotes: • Virgil: Quotations Virgil in Art: Blake, William (1757-1827) The Pastorals of Virgil 1821 Princeton University Art…