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ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giorgio Morandi is one of those rare artists whose world appears small only until one begins to look closely. Bottles, jars, boxes, pitchers, a few flowers, the hills outside Bologna: these were the modest subjects…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Umberto Boccioni lived only thirty-three years, yet in that short life he helped give visual form to one of the most explosive ideas in modern art: that the world had changed so radically that painting…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Masaccio's career lasted scarcely more than six years, yet he changed the direction of European painting. He died in 1428 at only twenty-six or twenty-seven, leaving behind a small body of work. But in those…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giorgio de Chirico created some of the most haunting images of modern art: empty squares under hard afternoon light, arcades stretching into silence, long shadows cast by unseen figures, classical statues standing beside trains, clocks,…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Piero della Francesca occupies a unique place in Renaissance art. His paintings are calm, lucid, and geometrically ordered, yet they possess a mystery that resists explanation. Figures stand in clear light, architecture is measured with…
Elegance of Mannerism ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known to history as Parmigianino, was born in Parma in 1503 and died only thirty-seven years later. His life was brief, restless, brilliant, and in the end troubled,…
ItalyStories.com Titian, born Tiziano Vecellio around 1488 or 1490 in Pieve di Cadore, rose from the mountains of the Venetian mainland to become the painter who gave Venice its color, its sensuality, and much of its image in the imagination…
The Sicilian Master of Portraits ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Antonello da Messina occupies a special place in the history of Italian painting. Born in Messina in Sicily around 1430 and dead by 1479, he spent a comparatively short career…
The Poet of Soft Light ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio after the small Emilian town where he was born around 1489, was one of the most daring and poetic painters of the Italian Renaissance. He…
Master of Venetian Serenity ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Giovanni Bellini stands at the beginning of one of the greatest chapters in the history of painting: the triumph of Venetian color. Born in Venice around 1430 and active until his…