The Intimate Genius of the Renaissance ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Lorenzo Lotto was born in Venice around 1480 and died in Loreto in the middle of the sixteenth century. For much of his life he worked outside the brightest…
Romantic Soul of Italy ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Francesco Hayez was born in Venice in 1791 and died in Milan in 1882, after a life that spanned almost the entire nineteenth-century transformation of Italy. He began his career when…
The Great Painter of the Seventeenth Century: Art, Strength and Independence Artemisia Gentileschi spent centuries being discussed as an exception before the world finally began to see her as what she had always been: a major painter. Her life contained…