DIA DOS NAMORADOS

VALENTINE'S DAY

In most of the countries around the world, on the 14th February, happens the annual celebration of love and friendship between people.

And, to remember it, why not see some paintings with romantic couples.

Almada Negreiros, "Beijo"

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "Two lovers"

Edouard Manet, "The garden of pere Lathuille"

Edward Burne-Jones, "Love among the ruins", 1894

Egon Schiele, "Lovers", 1913

Emiliano Di Cavalcanti

Eric Fischl, "Swimming lovers", 1984

Francesco Hayez

Gustav Klimt, "The kiss", 1907

Henry Peters Gray, "The greek lovers", 1846

Ibrahim Hussein, "Embracing", 2001

Jacob Lawrence, "The lovers"

Jan vab Beers, "The lovers", 1885

Jean Honoré Fragonard, "The bolt", 1778

Jean-Léon Gérôme, "Pygmalion and Galatea", 1890

Kim Anderson

Koloman Moser, "Liebespaar", 1913

Konstantine Somov, "The lovers. Evening", 1910

Lois Maillou Jones, "Somali friends", 1950

Marc Chagall, "Lovers in Pink", 1916

Marc Chagall, "Blue lovers"

Marie Spartali Stillman, "A wreath of roses", 1880

Nicole Eisenman, "Sloppy Bar room kiss", 2011

Pablo Picasso, "The lovers"

Paula Rego

Pierre-Auguste Cot, "Springtime"

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Alfred Sisley with his wife", 1868

René Magritte, "Les amants", 1928

Roberto Chichorro, "Namoro com beija-flor"

Roy Lichtenstein, "We rose up slowly"

Simeon Solomon, "Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene", 1864

Suzuki Harunobu, "Lovers in the snow under an umbrella"

Toulouse-Lautrec, "Die beiden Freundinnen"

EDVARD MUNCH

1863- 1944, Loten, Adalsbruck, Norway

On the 23rd January, 78 years ago, died the Norway's most famous painter.

During his life he has remained pratically unknow to most of the main countries in the world. But, six years after his dead, New York staged a retrospective of his fabulous works and things changed. He became so famous as a rock star.

"The scream", in which a human figure claps its skull a swirling sunset, is now so recognisable as Monet's water lilies, Picasso's Guernica or Van Gogh's sunflowers.

His childhood was very traumatic considering that his mother and favourite sister died of tuberculosis, another sister with schizophrenia, and his father suffered from depression.

The result was that Munch struggled with mental illness.

Now, Norway built a palatial museum on the Oslo Fjord to celebrate Edvard Munch. One of the biggest institutions in the world devoted to a single artist where we can see almost 50.000 related objects, paintings, sculptures, prints and photos.

In this page is also possible to appreciate his talent as a surrealist and impressionist painter.

"Nude", 1913

"Puberty", 1894

"The day after"

"Evening in Karl Johan", 1892

"Lonely ones"

"Melancoly", 1891

"Mother death and child", 1899

"The artist and his model"

"The Sun", 1911

"Two girls under an apple tree in bloom"

"Uninvited guests"

"Woman in three stages"

"Death in the sickroom", 1896, lithography

"Eken", 1906

"End of the day", 1888

"Girls on the bridge", 1901

"Girls on the jetty", 1913

"Inger on the beach", 1889

"Kiss", 1897

"Morning", 1884

Self portrait with cigar, 1895

"The sick child", 1896, lithography

"Anxiety", 1894

"Ashes", 1894

"Kiss on the Shore by Moonlight", 1916

"Rue Lafayette", 1891

"Scream", 1893

"Separation", 1896

"The Brooch. Eva Mudocci", 1903

"The construction", 1929

"Dance of Life"

DIA DE REIS

THREE KINGS DAY
EPIPHANY
The Three Kings Days is the celebration of the three magi, Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar, who traveled 12 days following a guiding star until Bethlehem to honor the baby born Jesus Christ.
And, of course, this Christian feast day inspired many painters to create  great works of art.

ALBERT DURER

ANDREA MANTEGNA, "Adoração dos três Magos"

EDWARD BURNE-JONES

EL GRECO, "A adoração dos Reis Magos"

GIOTTO, " Adoration of the Magi"

GRÃO VASCO, "A adoração dos Magos"

GREGÓRIO LOPES

HEINRICH HOFFMANN, "The visit of the wise men"

JAMES CHRISTENSEN, "Somos os três Reis"

JAMES TISSOT, "The journey of the Magi"

PETER PAUL RUBENS, "Os três Magos"

SANDRO BOTICELLI

ZANOBI STROZZI