🇬🇧 Born in Salzburg, today Austria, on 27th January of 1756 in a family of musicians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed immediately his incredible capacities as a prodigious child. He started playing the clavier when he was four, thanks to the initiative of his father who was teaching also Wolfgang’s older sister, and started composing his first pieces when he was five. This extraordinary talent was … Continue reading Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 🎶🎹🎵
In 1884 a young Claude Debussy won the prestigious composition prize Prix de Rome, which entailed a residence programme at Villa Medici in Rome, where this portrait was painted and is currently exhibited. The stifling environment at the French Academy of Rome was strengthening his resolution to follow his own ways for artistic expression: “I am sure the Institute would not approve, for, naturally it … Continue reading Claude Debussy 🎼🎶🏴
Frédérick Chopin è di gran lunga il musicista a cui mi sento più vicino, per sensibilità musicale ed espressione artistica. Ho adorato studiare e suonare le sue composizioni e mi piace ascoltare la mia collezione delle sue creazioni, interpretata da molti grandi pianisti, da Martha Argerich a Arthur Rubinstein, da Maurizio Pollini a Ivo Pogorelich. Antonio Vivaldi, il prete rosso, qui raffigurato con indosso abiti … Continue reading I miei compositori preferiti 🎹🏛🎶
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great) is the single greatest leader in all of history because he lead one of the grandest armies in the world and established one of the largest empires of antiquity. Dozens of the cities which he established still exist today, and the culture he spread and assimilated is very evident in the lands in which his empire existed. Truly, … Continue reading Alexander the Great 🗿🏛📚
À l’occasion du 2375ème anniversaire de la naissance d’Alexandre le Grand Tête de marbre d’Alexandre III de Macédoine, dit le Grand, au British Museum – L’un des nombreux portraits de marbre d’Alexandre le Grand utilisé par le légendaire conquérant et ses partisans, pendant et après son règne, pour diffuser et immortaliser l’image d’un dirigeant jeune et puissant, souvent associé au concept de divinité. On pense … Continue reading Alexandre le Grand 🗿🏛📚
🇬🇧 Self-portrait, oil painting by JMW Turner, 1799, exhibited at Tate Britain – At the beginning of his artistic career a young Turner painted this romantic self-portrait. Probably prepared to mark his election as an associate of the Royal Academy, this portrait showcases already a very skilled and talented artist, despite his young age. 🇮🇹 Autoritratto, dipinto ad olio di JMW Turner, 1799, esposto alla … Continue reading Turner’s Self-portrait 🖌🖼🇬🇧
There are many composers I like best, among them Mozart, Vivaldi and Debussy, but Chopin is by far the musician I feel closer to, for musical sensibility and artistic expression. I loved studying and playing his compositions and I enjoy listening to my collection of his creations, interpreted by many great pianists, from Martha Argerich to Arthur Rubinstein, from Maurizio Pollini to Ivo Pogorelich. Antonio Vivaldi, … Continue reading My favourite composers 🎹🏛🎶
🇬🇧 Portrait by Anton Depauly of Franz Schubert in 1827, currently exhibited at Friends of Music in Vienna. Despite a short life, he died at 30 years of age, Schubert left a remarkable collection of compositions, mainly for piano and voice and chamber music. Child prodigy in learning to play the piano and the violin following lessons by his father and brother, soon he excelled … Continue reading Schubert’s portrait 🎼🎶🎵
Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne, oil paiinting by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918, Tate Modern. Portrait of one of Modigliani’s favourite models and partner, an art student in Paris in the period immediately around the end of WWi. This portrait was probably painted in Paris, while Jeanne was pregnant with her daughter by Amedeo, born in November 2018. 👨🏽💻♥️📷🎨 Tate Modern Paintings of 1️⃣9️⃣0️⃣0️⃣s Visual Art 🖼🏛🗿 Continue reading Jeanne by Modigliani 🎨👩🏻🖼
