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Klimt’s portrait of a woman: the Story of the most wanted painting found behind the ivy
The famous painting “Portrait of a woman” by the Austrian art Nouveau master Gustav Klimt was discovered 23 years after its theft. The work was created by the artist in the last years of his life and is reportedly worth about $ 66 million. The painting was stolen in 1997 and was included in the list of the most wanted art objects in Italy.
About the artist
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was a brilliant Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Viennese art Nouveau movement (Vienna secession). Klimt’s works, known for their complex, overtly sensual paintings and frescoes, cover themes of rebirth, love and death. Klimt’s eclectic range of influences included Egyptian, classical Greek, Byzantine, and medieval styles. Continue reading
How a practical solution for protecting against drafts turned into an expensive work of art: Tapestry
Tapestries, or rather tapestries, were created because they allowed you to protect yourself from cold and draughts. But this purely practical purpose does not explain the essence of the trellis, because most of these products were in the past real objects of art-objects extremely valuable and expensive. How did these wall carpets earn such a reputation? Continue reading
How the artist Francisco Goya turned the art world around: “the First of modern»
For innovations in the technique of paintings, obsessive satire of his work and personal belief that the artist’s vision is more important than tradition, Goya is often called “the first of the modern”. His uncompromising depiction of the reality of his time marks the beginning of a new art of the XIX century.
Biography
Francisco Goya y Lucientes was born on March 30, 1746 in an Aragonese village and studied painting in the workshop of the Zaragoza artist Jose Lusano-Martinez. The work of the Spanish artist, which developed at the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries, opens the art of a new historical era. Continue reading
