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The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri ) crosses the Rio di Palazzo in Venice. Built by Antonio Contino in 1602, this enclosed passageway connected the court rooms in the Doge’s Palace with ...
Valentin Serov visited Italy in 1904, but was not impressed: “I expected much from Florence... The architecture is unattractive. The Campanile di Giotto is fine, but not captivatingly so, as I had im...
This unfinished picture belongs to a series of portraits of members of the Russian creative intelligentsia painted by Valentin Serov from the mid-1890s onwards. The artist first made the acquaintance...
Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev with his Nanny is widely regarded as one of Léon Bakst ’s most outstanding works of portraiture. This painting is probably the most famous image of Sergei Diaghilev, whos...
The public first saw Supper – or Lady in a Restaurant, as Léon Bakst himself preferred to call the picture – at the fifth World of Art exhibition in St Petersburg in 1903. The painting was a succès d...
In 1907, Léon Bakst visited Greece in the company of Valentin Serov. During his time there, he sketched the country’s historical monuments and Mediterranean nature and read the works of Ancient Greek...
Filippino Lippi painted this altarpiece around 1498–1500 for the funerary chapel of Francesco Valori in the Church of San Procolo in Florence. The Valori family was close to the Medici and prominent ...
Pacino di Bonaguida was an Italian painter and illuminator who spent his entire career in Florence and was active from 1302 to 1340. In addition to altarpieces, he painted miniatures and decorations ...
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Madonna and Child with St Nicholas and St Proculus is also known as the San Procolo Triptych, because it was specially painted as an altarpiece for the Church of San Procolo in ...
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Four Stories from the Life of St Nicholas was painted around 1330. It originally hung in the Church of San Procolo in Florence, where it was seen by Giorgio Vasari in the mid-si...