Pierrot is a stock character of pantomime and commedia dell’arte, whose origins are in the late seventeenth-century Italian troupe of
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Category: art
Bathing and Bathers in paintings
Most recent update: 12th January 2026 This is a post about bathers and bathing in pictures. Jules SCALBERT ( 1851
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Ceramic Deep Dish from “Icarus” of Rhodes, Greece
Βαθύ πιάτο, κεραμικό του Ίκαρου, από τη Ρόδο.
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Woman Reclining, Sleeping (1901 – 1995)
Last update: 22nd May 2025 The topic of this post is the pictorial depiction of the female figure reclining, or
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Bacchus Sculptures – Three examples of Greek Art
Great Art is a mix of two basic components. The first is the accumulation of the past. The second is
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Michelangelo's Bacchus (1497) in the Bargello Museum, Florence, Italy
In 2011 I visited the Bargello Museum in Florence for the second time. Prominent among the Michelangelo sculptures on display
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Vincent Van Gogh in Saint Remy de Provence
Tired of Paris and its cold, northern climate, his mental and physical health deteriorating, the painter Vincent Van Gogh moved
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Sancta Susanna: opera in one act by Paul Hindemith
Originally published on 22/4/2012. In October 2024 Staatsoper Stuttgart staged “Sancta”, an Opera performance by Florentina Holzinger with Paul Hindemith’s
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Aphrodite (Venus), Pan and Eros: A sculpture in the National Archaelogical Museum of Athens
Originally published on the 26th November 2013. The National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece, is a museum with many treasures.
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The Painter Chaïm Soutine
Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) is considered one of the leading expressionists of the so-called School of Paris – a central figure
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