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Some scenes from Greek mythology seem to have been made to speak about something that keeps happening thousands of years later. Ulysses facing the sirens is one of them. John William Waterhouse painted it in 1891, at one of the most interesting moments of his career, and the result is a strange, unsettling image: a man tied to the mast of his ship while creatures with female faces, bird bodies and enormous claws surround him.
Some sculptures impress by their size. Others, by the beauty of their figures. And then there's Disillusion, a work that produces a reaction much harder to explain: it's hard to believe that what we're looking at is really marble.
Francesco Queirolo finished this sculpture in 1753-1754 for the Cappella Sansevero in Naples.
Read more … The Disillusionment by Francesco Queirolo: The Impossible Knot
There are thirteen people around a table. No one has stood up yet. No one has fully reacted. But a single sentence has just changed everything: "One of you will betray me." Leonardo da Vinci did not choose to paint the betrayal itself. He chose to paint the instant immediately after: the exact second in which twelve men hear something they never expected to hear.
Read more … Everything Happens At This Table | The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
Hercules and Deianira undertook the challenge of crossing the Evenus River. However, Nessus, the centaur tasked with guiding them, had dark intentions. In a despicable act, Nessus first crossed with Hercules and his supplies, leaving Deianira alone on the opposite bank. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he attempted to kidnap and violate the defenseless woman.
Read more … Hercules and the Centaur Nessus: The Tragedy of Poisoned Love
There is something quite curious about this painting. At first glance, nothing extraordinary seems to be happening: a group of men seated around a table, counting money, writing, absorbed in their coins. And then, from the right, two men enter. One of them raises his hand and points. That's all. But that gesture, a single instant frozen forever, is the center of one of the most revolutionary works in the history of Western art.
Read more … The Hand That Changed His Destiny | The Calling of Saint Matthew - Caravaggio
There are paintings that, at first glance, seem to have come straight out of Leonardo da Vinci's workshop. The same oval faces, the same light emerging from shadow, that almost hypnotic stillness in the gestures. Yet many of these works were not painted by Leonardo, but by an artist who worked alongside him and whom art history remembers by a curious name: Giampietrino. His is the story of someone who learned from the most influential genius of his time and who, precisely because of that, spent centuries living in his shadow.
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Por muchas razones el mito de Orfeo es uno de los más oscuros y cargados de simbolismo que se conocen en la mitología helénica. Atestiguada en una fecha muy antigua, se desarrolló hasta convertirse en una...
Confianza en Dios es, por mucho, la obra más conocida de Bartolini, emblemática de la escultura italiana de la generación posterior a Canova". Las representaciones de Venus y otros personajes que...
La escultura El Viento del Oeste de Thomas Ridgeway Gould, creada en 1876, es una obra de mármol que captura de manera simbólica la figura femenina como una encarnación del viento. La escultura...
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