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La inspiración es algo místico e intangible que capta al artista, al escritor, al inventor e incluso al científico. En la mitología griega, se consideraba que las musas eran la fuente de esa...
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Some paintings explain themselves. Others, the more you look at them, leave more questions open. "The Meeting on the Turret Stairs" belongs to the second kind. At first glance it is a quiet scene: a man and a woman embrace on a stone staircase, her eyes closed, his lips resting on her arm.
Read more … The Meeting on the Turret Stairs: A Ballad of Love
Some scenes from Greek mythology seem to have been made to speak about something that keeps happening thousands of years later. Ulysses facing the sirens is one of them. John William Waterhouse painted it in 1891, at one of the most interesting moments of his career, and the result is a strange, unsettling image: a man tied to the mast of his ship while creatures with female faces, bird bodies and enormous claws surround him.
Some sculptures impress by their size. Others, by the beauty of their figures. And then there's Disillusion, a work that produces a reaction much harder to explain: it's hard to believe that what we're looking at is really marble.
Francesco Queirolo finished this sculpture in 1753-1754 for the Cappella Sansevero in Naples.
Read more … The Disillusionment by Francesco Queirolo: The Impossible Knot
There are thirteen people around a table. No one has stood up yet. No one has fully reacted. But a single sentence has just changed everything: "One of you will betray me." Leonardo da Vinci did not choose to paint the betrayal itself. He chose to paint the instant immediately after: the exact second in which twelve men hear something they never expected to hear.
Read more … Everything Happens At This Table | The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci
Hercules and Deianira undertook the challenge of crossing the Evenus River. However, Nessus, the centaur tasked with guiding them, had dark intentions. In a despicable act, Nessus first crossed with Hercules and his supplies, leaving Deianira alone on the opposite bank. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he attempted to kidnap and violate the defenseless woman.
Read more … Hercules and the Centaur Nessus: The Tragedy of Poisoned Love
There is something quite curious about this painting. At first glance, nothing extraordinary seems to be happening: a group of men seated around a table, counting money, writing, absorbed in their coins. And then, from the right, two men enter. One of them raises his hand and points. That's all. But that gesture, a single instant frozen forever, is the center of one of the most revolutionary works in the history of Western art.
Read more … The Hand That Changed His Destiny | The Calling of Saint Matthew - Caravaggio
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La inspiración es algo místico e intangible que capta al artista, al escritor, al inventor e incluso al científico. En la mitología griega, se consideraba que las musas eran la fuente de esa...
La obra "Mujer con una concha" de William-Adolphe Bouguereau, cuyo título original en francés es "Femme à la Coquille" (1871), es una de las pinturas más representativas del virtuosismo técnico y la...
Read more … Mujer con una concha de William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Las cosas no siempre son como parecen. ¿Y si una súper villana habría sido en realidad una víctima como tantas otras veces?. ¿Y si detrás de un monstruoso rostro estaban en realidad las señales...
Hoy les contaré sobre el mito de Las Danaides. La historia de cincuenta mujeres que cometen muy malas acciones: guiadas por su oscuro padre, ¡Todas matan a sus maridos en la noche de bodas!...
Las ansias de amor pueden tornarse peligrosas, así pudo descubrirlo Deyanira. Ella era la tercera esposa y por error, verdugo de Heracles (Hércules para los amigos). Su obsesivo y tóxico amor,...
La Venus de Victrix presenta a Venus en una pose clásica y serena, con una expresión que combina dulzura y dignidad. La diosa está representada de pie, con su cuerpo ligeramente girado y el rostro...
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