Pamplona – San Fermin – Spain Traveling is to reach a place and travel its streets, its landscapes and its monuments. But traveling to Pamplona – Spain – during the San Fermin festival is a unique experience. The party begins on July 6 at noon, when the chupinazo (or Txupinazo) is launched from the Balcony of the City Council. An ocean of red handkerchiefs welcomes one of the most popular parties in the world between the 6th and the 14th …
Leda and the Swan da Vinci – Michelangelo – Veronesse. – Rubens. – Boucher – Delacroix is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, or Jupiter, in the Roman version, in the form of a swan, seduces or rapes Leda, the daughter of the King of Aetolia, and married to the Spartan King Tyndareus. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and …
Picasso Nude Artworks Exhibition on line Pablo Picasso 1881-1973 School of Paris painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, who has had enormous influence on 20th century art and worked in an unprecedented variety of styles. Born at Malaga, Spain, son of an art teacher. His family moved to Barcelona, where he entered the School of Fine Arts 1895; then entered Madrid Academy 1897. Early showed great precocity. First visited Paris in autumn 1900, returned in 1901 when he had his first Paris one-man exhibition at the …
Nude in 15th to 17th centuries The Quattrocento Nude in Baroque History of Nude Painting in Art Renaissance Era – 15th to 17th centuries Rubens + Da Vinci + Titian + Tintoretto + Giorgione + Botticelli + Van Loo + Correggio + Jacob Jordaens + Lemoyne. + Le Sueur What’s the renaissance? The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 15th century …
Best monuments in Spain. Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance or Mudejar style that Spain has. In Spain the best of ancient architecture meets. There are so many architectural styles, beautiful buildings and monumental constructions that it is difficult to choose only 10. Some of the monuments on the list are unique in the world. Alhambra in Granada, Andalusia Arab writers used to compare Granada to a great Crown on whose forehead stands the diadem of the Alhambra. The Nasrid style is predominant. …