Tag: Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1856)

Nadar (1820-1910) Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Salt print mounted on card, 24.4 x 18.8 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for the 39 operas he completed before his 39th birthday, including The Barber of Seville, Othello,…

Gioachino Rossini

(1792–1868) Giovacchino Antonio Rossini Works: • Guglielmo Tell (1829) • Il barbiere di Siviglia (1816) • Il turco in Italia (1814) • La Cenerentola (1817) • La gazza ladra (1817) • Le Comte Ory (1828) • L’italiana in Algeri (1813)…

Nadar

(1820–1910) Gaspard-Félix Tournachon The artist’s works: Charles Baudelaire c.1854 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Corot 1855–1859 Getty Center, Los Angeles Pierrot riant 1855 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gioachino Antonio Rossini 1856 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Gioachino Rossini 1856 Private collection Honoré…

Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Paris)

Established: 1804 Location: 16 Rue du Repos, 75020 Paris Website: https://pere-lachaise.com/ Burials: • Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) • Avril, Jane (1868-1943) • Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) • Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) • Bellini, Vincenzo (1801-1835) • Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) • Bizet, Georges (1838-1875) •…

La classe de danse (1874)

Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La classe de danse (The Dance Class) 1874 Oil on canvas, 83.5 x 77.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This work and its variant in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to…

Santa Croce (Firenze)

Groundbreaking: 1294 Completed: 1385 Consecrated: 1443 Architects: Arnolfo di Cambio, Filippo Brunelleschi Style: Gothic, Renaissance, Gothic Revival Location: Piazza Santa Croce, 16 – 50122 Firenze Website: https://www.santacroceopera.it/ Burials: • Clary, Julie (1771-1845) • Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) • Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455)…

Edgar Degas

(1834–1917) Hilaire Germain Edgar de Gas The artist’s works: La sortie du bain 1846 Musée du Louvre, Paris Portrait de l’artiste 1855 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Autoportrait c.1857–1858 Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Autoportrait au col blanc c.1857 National Gallery of Art, Washington Une Mendiante romaine…