Visual Arts (5)
In the Sistine Chapel is one of the most emblematic works of the Italian Renaissance, whose fame has spread throughout the world. The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was frescoed ...
In 1924, in Paris, André Breton (1896-1966), French writer and poet, wrote a manifesto after cutting off relations with Tristan Tzara, leader of the Dada movement, and thus the ...
The Persistence of Memory is a painting by the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, which was executed in 1931 in less than five hours. The work has small dimensions, 24 x 33 cm ...
The David sculpture was made by the Florentine artist Miguel Ángel Buonarroti between 1501 and 1504, when the young man was not in his thirties. The subject had already been treated by sculptors ...
The Scream is a work by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, whose original title is Skrik (Scream in English). Due to its expressive force, this painting is considered an antecedent of the movement ...
Guernica is an oil mural painting made in 1937 by the Spanish painter, sculptor and poet Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Málaga, Spain 1881-Mougins, France 1973). Is currently in...
The mural The Man Controller of the Universe, by Diego Rivera (1886-1957), is a version of the work Man at the crossroads originally commissioned in 1933 for the Center...
The painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velázquez was painted in 1656 and portrays the Infanta Margarita, daughter of King Felipe IV, in the painter's workshop located in the Royal Palace Alcázar of ...
"Effective suffrage, no reelection" was the slogan of Francisco Ignacio Madero's campaign in 1910, when he launched himself to compete for the presidency of the Mexican Republic against the ...
The painting Las Dos Fridas by Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is a double self-portrait painted in oil and completed in 1939, the year in which the artist divorced the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. It measures 173 ...
What does La Catrina by José Guadalupe Posada mean: La Catrina, a metal engraving published in 1873, is an original illustration by the Mexican engraver and cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada ...
The Kiss (Der Kuss) is an oil and gold leaf canvas painted in 1908 by the Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918), an artist belonging to the current of symbolism, ...
The painting The Birth of Venus or La nascita di Venere by Sandro Botticelli was painted between 1482 and 1485, in the historical context of the Renaissance. This is the first canvas painting ...
What does feet mean, why do I want them if I have wings to fly: "Feet why do I want them if I have wings to fly" is a famous phrase by the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, written in 1953, ...
The Last Supper (Il cenacolo) is a wall painting made between 1495 and 1498 by the multifaceted Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). It was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza for the refectory of ...
Liberty Leading the People o July 28 is a painting by the painter Eugène Delacroix, the greatest exponent of French romanticism. The painting represents the July Revolution of 1830, which occurred in ...
