“Portrait of the Artist’s Sisters Playing Chess”
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532 – 1625)
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Month: February 2011
Citazione del Giorno
“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
— Cesare Pavese (1908 – 1950)
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 "Reception of the French Ambassador")
“Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice”
Giovanni Antonio Canal [Canaletto] (1697 – 1768)
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Citazione del Giorno
“If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.”
— Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
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“Fontana della Barcaccia”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – 1680)
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Citazione del Giorno
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca [Seneca the Younger] (1 BC – 65 AD)
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“Music”
Luigi Russolo (1885 – 1947)
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Citazione del Giorno
“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
— Gian Carlo Menotti (1911 – 2007)
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“Breakfast in the Garden”
Giuseppe de Nittis (1846 – 1884)
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Citazione del Giorno
“Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.”
— Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936)
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