Museum of Capodimonte, Naples 🏛🖼🇮🇹

The Museum of Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a former royal palace used by the Bourbon dynasty as their summer residence in Naples. The museum features a magnificent collection of Neapolitan painting and decorative art, with several important works from other Italian schools of painting, and some important ancient Roman sculptures. Inaugurated in 1957, it is now one of … Continue reading Museum of Capodimonte, Naples 🏛🖼🇮🇹

National Gallery, Londres 🏛🖼🇵🇹

Esta é facilmente uma das melhores coleções do mundo da pintura de todos os tempos, acessível a todos gratuitamente, sete dias por semana. A coleção da National Gallery de Londres teve início no início do século XIX graças a alguns grandes legados de pinturas doadas ao país, com a condição de que um alojamento adequado fosse fornecido para a exposição e conservação das obras. Atualmente, … Continue reading National Gallery, Londres 🏛🖼🇵🇹

Vincent Van Gogh 👨🏼‍🎨🎨🇬🇧

In the first part of his life Van Gogh was not a painter but an art dealer and preacher who lived between the Netherlands, France and Great Britain. Born in North Brabant in March 1853, in the last 10 years of his life alone he was a full-time painter, producing over 900 paintings but, probably well ahead of his time, selling only one painting, while … Continue reading Vincent Van Gogh 👨🏼‍🎨🎨🇬🇧

Avenue à Chantilly, by Cézanne 🖌🖼🇫🇷

🇬🇧 Avenue at Chantilly – Cézanne spent several months during the summer of 1888 working in and around Chantilly, about 24 miles north of Paris. This is one of three similar oil paintings from the park surrounding the castle that he produced during his stay. The symmetry and spatial depth of this vision may have attracted him more than his historical associations, as he focused … Continue reading Avenue à Chantilly, by Cézanne 🖌🖼🇫🇷

Sunflowers, by Van Gogh 🌼🖌🌼

Marking the 129th anniversary of Vincent Van Gogh death on 29/7/1890 🇬🇧 Flowers, and sunflowers in particular, were one of the favourite subjects by Vincent Van Gogh and there are several paintings in these series. The sunflower painting on the right was painted in Arles in the summer of 1888 and is normally exhibited at the National Gallery in London. This version of the sunflowers … Continue reading Sunflowers, by Van Gogh 🌼🖌🌼

National Gallery, London 🏛🖼👨🏼‍🎨

Easily one of the best collections in the world of paintings of all times, accessible to everybody free of charge seven days a week. The collection of the National Gallery in London was started at the beginning of the 19th century thanks to some large bequests of paintings donated to the country on the condition a suitable accommodation was provided for the exhibition and the … Continue reading National Gallery, London 🏛🖼👨🏼‍🎨

Harvest, by Gauguin 🖼🖌🌾

  Harvest: Le Pouldu by Paul Gauguin, 1890, exhibited at the National Gallery – This summer landscape was painted by Gauguin during his stay in Brittany, while he was moving away from his initial impressionist style and embracing a more primitivist art, influenced by folk art, to be developed further during his later life in Tahiti.         This self-portrait was painted by Gauguin … Continue reading Harvest, by Gauguin 🖼🖌🌾

The Water-Lily Pond, by Monet 🖼🌼🎨

🇬🇧The Water-Lily Pond, oil painting by Claude Monet, 1899, exhibited at the National Gallery in London – Depicting a colourful and iconic scene from his garden in Giverny, in the outskirts of Paris. Monet found inspiration for his late paintings from the garden he carefully designed around his country house in Giverny. Today the garden is kept with a similar attention of his previous owner and … Continue reading The Water-Lily Pond, by Monet 🖼🌼🎨