The essence of decorative: Gustav Klimt and fashion

March 8, 2010

As appeared in Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, Volume 19, freely translated by Mattia Moretti. Commonly referred to be the minor art craft, design is now often in a critical economic situation, while the commercial art itself is undergoing a decided improvement process. By the point of view of the artisan it is therefore understandably how [...]

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Doppio Sogno: “Et in Arcadia Ego” theme in Nicolas Poussin and Aubrey Beardsley

March 4, 2010

In a famous essay entitled “Et in Arcadia Ego: Poussin and the Elegiac Tradition”, the art historian and philosopher of art Erwin Panofsky takes in exam the influences of the influencing Latin motto “Et in Arcadia Ego” in the history of art. In particular, the essay of Panofsky is centered on the figure of the [...]

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Adolfo de Carolis (aka de Karolis) as illustrator of D’Annunzio

March 3, 2010

Adolfo De Carolis (De Karolis) (Montefiore Asia (AP), Jan. 6  1874 – Rome, Feb. 7 1928) was an Italian painter, engraver, illustrator and author of art. In 1888, by advice of the architect Giuseppe Sacconi, he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna where he attended courses of fellow Domenico Ferri. In 1892, [...]

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Alphonse Mucha, illustrations from Le Pater (1889)

February 26, 2010

    Original Lithograph, from "Le Pater" printed by F. Champenois and published by Henri Piazza in Paris, 1899. Le Pater, consisted of a series of seven drawings. The seven verses of the Lord’s prayer are presented with illustrations by Mucha. "Mucha felt that ‘Le Pater’ was his supreme achievement as an illustrator. The following [...]

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Josef Maria Auchentaller (1865 in Wien – 1949 in Grado in Italy)

February 24, 2010

Joseph Maria Auchentaller first contact with the Jugendstil movement was with the Secession in Monaco of Bavaria between 1892 and 1896, he collaborated with the famous magazine Jugend and complements the artistic maturity that will see him lead in the nascent movement in Vienna, which had been a member since its foundation. The dedication to [...]

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Stanisław Wyspiański and the mystic fitomorphism

January 21, 2010

  Stanisław Wyspiański was the best known artist in the turn of the Century Poland, as well as the leading painter and poet from ‘Młoda Polska’ , the Polish declination of Art Nouveau. He was author of play, poet, painter: a pure eclectic artist as commonly used at the Turn of the Century. Many information [...]

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Precedence

January 20, 2010

  Sometimes I feel that the time really flows accordingly to the concept of time of the Greek mythology. Sometimes I really feel that that eventually it could be true, at least as far as history of art is concerned. We are descending from the Classic Greek Art, in which the human beings, and specially [...]

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Sir Edwin Durwin-Lawrence – The Shakespeare Myth

January 17, 2010

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From Iron Roots grow Sinuous Flowers

January 10, 2010

  I was impressed, reading the essay on the Italian Liberty architecture by the authoritative art historian Rossana Bossaglia, by the her concerns regarding the development of an Art Nouveau (Liberty, as the movement is known in Italy) architecture. In particular she complained about the lack of a real innovative research of new forms in [...]

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