What notable Italian artist and writer founded the "scuola metafisica" art movement and painted The Nostalgia of the Infinite?
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The Nostalgia of the Infinite The Nostalgia of the Infinite is a painting by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.
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Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico (] ; 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian artist and writer. In the years before World War I, he founded the "scuola metafisica" art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. After 1919, he became interested in traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.
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Carlo Felice Biscarra Carlo Felice Biscarra (March 26, 1823 – July 31, 1894) was an Italian painter and art critic.
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Edoardo Persico Edoardo Persico (1900, Naples - January 1936, Milan) was an Italian art critic, designer and essayist.
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Pietro Fragiacomo Pietro Fragiacomo (14 August 1856 – 18 May 1922) was an Italian painter, depicting sea and land-scapes.
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Centro d'Arte Modigliani Modigliani Art Center ("Centro d'Arte Modigliani") is an art center founded in 1979 based in Scandicci, a suburb of Florence, Italy in Tuscany. The cultural center develops visual arts and literature via shows and conferences about renowned artists, poets and writers. It also develops artists, poets and writers whose work is less well known or debuting publicly. The center is named in honor of Amedeo Modigliani, an Italian modernist painter who lived and worked mostly in France.
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Maria Perosino Maria Perosino (10 December 1961 – 16 June 2014) was an Italian author and art historian.
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Guglielmo Stella Guglielmo Stella (1828 - 1888) was an Italian painter and writer, active in a Realist style.
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Tiziano Thomas Dossena Tiziano Thomas Dossena is an Italian American author and art critic.
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Vespasiano Bignami Vespasiano Bignami (1841 – 1929) was Italian painter, art critic, and caricaturist. He belonged to the Scapigliatura movement, and helped found "La Famiglia Artistica".
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Enzo Cucchi Enzo Cucchi (born 14 November 1949) is an Italian painter. A native of Morro d'Alba, province of Ancona, he was a key member of the Italian Transavanguardia movement, along with his countrymen Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Nicola De Maria and Sandro Chia. The movement was at its peak during the 1980s and was part of a wider movement of Neo-Expressionists painters around the world.
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Monsu Desiderio Monsù Desiderio is the name formerly given to an artist believed to have painted architectural scenes in a distinctive style in Naples in the early seventeenth century. The term "Monsù", a corruption of the French "monsieur", was often used by Neapolitan historians to denote a painter of foreign origin.
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Roberto Ferruzzi Roberto Ferruzzi (] ; 16 December 1853 – 16 February 1934) was an Italian artist. He is best known for the painting "Madonnina" that won the second Venice Biennale in 1897.
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Manuel Musto Manuel Musto was an impressionist painter. Born September 16, 1893 in Rosario, Argentina. Disciple of Ferrucio Pagni at the "Academia Fomento de las Artes". In 1914 Musto travels to Florence, Italy with Augusto Schiavonni, another representative of the Fine Arts in the Rosario. Soon after knowing of his father's death Musto returns to Argentina only to resume his travels shortly thereafter completing his learning experience in Italy. His style as a painter is very much influenced by the Italian School of the 19th century, bucolic scenes of the country side, life in the fields, flowers... The bulk of his work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Rosario. The house where he resided is today home of the art school that honors his legacy and name. Manuel Musto died at age 47 on September 12, 1940.
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Giacomo Balla Giacomo Balla (18 July 1871 – 1 March 1958) was an Italian painter, art teacher and poet best known as a key proponent of Futurism. In his painting he depicted light, movement and speed.
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Italo Mus Italo Mus (4 April 1892 – 15 May 1967) was an Italian painter.
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Gabriele Castagnola Gabriele Castagnola (14 November 1828 – 30 August 1883) was an Italian artist born in Genoa and active in Florence. He worked in oil painting and chromolithography in an academic style. This style of painting and sculpture derived from the Academies where most artists received their formal training, and is characterized by its high finish, use of mythological or historical subject matter, and moralistic tone. Castagnola's paintings are often somewhat sentimental and often focus on themes of love and romance. The romance of the Early Renaissance painter Filippo Lippi with the young novice Lucrezia Buti is a recurring theme in his pieces, as are nuns in general.
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Mario Schifano Mario Schifano ( 20 September 1934, Khoms, Libya – 26 January 1998, Rome, Italy ) was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician.
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Gualtieri di San Lazzaro Gualtieri di San Lazzaro (1904–74) was an Italian author and art publisher. For the majority of his life, he resided in Paris where he published monographs focusing on the work of contemporary French and Italian artists. He was the founder of the periodical "XXe Siècle".
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Sebastian Volco Sebastian Volco (also known as Volco) is an Argentinian avant-garde composer, pianist and guitar player, best known as the creator of la Orquesta Metafisica, a music ensemble founded in 2009 in Buenos Aires (progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz fusion). Volco played in several Argentinian rock bands, including Fantasmagoria. He also made musical installations (such as Corte 7 in Museo de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires) and wrote music for theatre and cinema (“Good Life Delivery” by Leonardo Di Cesare (2004)).
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Luciano Anceschi Luciano Anceschi (] ; February 20, 1911 in Milan – May 2, 1995 in Bologna) was an Italian literary critic and essayist. A pupil of Antonio Banfi, with whom he graduated in philosophy in 1933, he taught aesthetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Bologna from 1952 to 1981. His interest in literature and the arts was always accompanied by that for the modern anti-dogmatic philosophy: after the publication of his graduation thesis "Autonomy and Heteronomy of art" published by Sansoni in 1936, his research on anti-idealistic literary figures and models found voice in comments published in "Orpheus" from 1932 and in "Corrente di vita giovanile" in1938-1939, self promoted magazines.
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Tommaso Minardi Tommaso Minardi (December 4, 1787 – January 12, 1871) was an Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.