Nonostante tali capricci,
e vari altri che non vale
la pena di ricordare – tutt’altro che sintomatici di un animo elevato e raffinato – com’era graziosa però!

Come appariva deliziosa quando scendeva..


Charlotte Brönte



Renoir

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The Italian painter was well known for his fantastical paintings which combined his scintillating brushwork with some recognisable elements and imaginative additions.

This fanciful scene depicts the Doge’s Palace in Venice, and dates to the 1770s.

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Hubert Robert (1733–1808) was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

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