Coleccionismo - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:26:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Coleccionismo - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Portrait of a gentleman https://historylab.es/portrait-of-a-gentleman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=portrait-of-a-gentleman Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/retrato-de-gentilhombre/ Power elites

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]]> Portrait of Mercurio Bua, Cypriot count, who was condotiero of the Republic of Venice. It is by Lorenzo Lotto, one of the most original artists of the Italian Renaissance, known for his portraits.

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]]> The concert (The theft of the amulet) https://historylab.es/the-concert-the-theft-of-the-amulet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-concert-the-theft-of-the-amulet Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-concierto-el-robo-del-amuleto/ Cultural history

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]]> A work by Gherardo delle Notti (Gerrit van Honthorst), a Dutch Caravaggesque painter who specialised in nocturnal scenes. It is a scene of vanity, due to the fleetingness of time that is the pleasure of music. But it has a second reading, the theft of the singer’s amulet by the other three characters.

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]]> Emblem of Baroque sculpture. A masterpiece by Bernini, representing one of the Metamorphoses narrated by Ovid. It reflects the taste of the papal court, in this case of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, for mythological themes, which connect with the humanist and refined training, concerned with the themes of Antiquity.

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