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To Market, To Market, To Buy a Fat Pig

Posted on December 2, 2019 by maryannadair

[Featured images by Bartolomeo Passerotti | Two Market Stalls: The Fish Stall and The Butcher Stall (both oil on canvas 112cm x 152cm).] Italian artist of the Mannerist period Bartolomeo Passerotti, was born in Bologna in 1529. He traveled to … Continue reading →

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Hop To It | The Tale of Aurora and Tithonus

Posted on June 21, 2019 by maryannadair

[Aurora and Tithonus by Francesco de Nura ] Francesco de Mura (21 April 1696 – 19 August 1782) was an Italian neo-Classicist painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples and Turin. He was a pupil of Francesco Solimena, … Continue reading →

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The pictures below are by Tiepolo

Posted on March 7, 2017 by maryannadair

Giovanni Battista  aka Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo  was a prolific Venetian painter and print-maker, born on March 5, 1696.  Tiepolo began his artistic career at the age of 14, in 1710. Nine years later, in 1719, Tiepolo married Maria Cecilia … Continue reading →

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