Paris - Finestre sull'Arte

Elles: the Parisian prostitutes according to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

The great Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi, 1864 - Saint-André-du-Bois, 1901), as is well known, was a frequent visitor to the brothels of late 19th-century Paris. In recent times we have seen a renewed interest in this important artist, an int...
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Japan according to Vincent Van Gogh

In the last months of 2012, an exhibition with the eloquent title Van Gogh, rêves de Japon, or: "Van Gogh, dreams of Japan," opened at the Pinacothèque de Paris. The exhibition aimed to document the influence thatJapanese art had exerted on the...
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Why is Gustave Caillebotte not as famous as the other Impressionists?

When thinking of the Impressionists, most tend to enumerate the typical textbook names: Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, sometimes Sisley and Pissarro. After all, the painters just mentioned can be considered the masterminds of what is perhaps the be...
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Leonardo da Vinci draughtsman: the studies on canvas

One of the lesser-known strands of the great Leonardo da Vinci's production is drawing on canvas, which, although not practiced as frequently as drawing on paper, was nevertheless sometimes experimented with by the artist. One of the first biographer...
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