LEONARDO DA VINCI INSPIRED DIEGO VOCI

Leonardo da Vinci, St Jerome (begun circa 1482). Photo © Governatorate of the Vatican City State, Vatican Museums, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The work is Leonardo da Vinci’s St. Jerome, and it is on loan from the Vatican Museums in Rome

MET GETS LOAN OF DA VINCI

“For Leonardo, a painter’s most ambitious goal was to convey a composition with convincing emotion,” said exhibition curator Carmen Bambach. “Few paintings in the history of Western art can elicit such a powerful psychological reaction.” – #ARTNEWS: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/leonardo-st-jerome-metropolitan-museum-1594957

Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985) VOH-chee inspired by Leonardo da Vinci to capture powerful emotions in his works of art; see below as an example.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Diego_Voci

See the entire painting “The Fisherman’s Miraculous Catch” by Diego Voci here; https://diegovociproject.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/no-tomorrows-no-yesterdays-only-the-moment-diegovoci/

ICONIC #EDGARDEGAS SCULPTURE UP FOR AUCTION

The pinnacle of degas’ achievement as a sculptor

LONDON.- Sotheby’s announced that Edgar Degas’ Petite danseuse de quatorze ans, estimated to fetch £10 – 15 million, will feature in the forthcoming Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 24th June 2015. Petite danseuse de quatorze ans is the most ambitious and iconic of Degas’ works and one of only a handful of bronze casts that remain in private hands – the majority are housed in major international museum collections, including Tate, London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museé d’Orsay, Paris.

Courtesy of www.diegovociproject.com 

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Internationally collected artist Diego Voci (1920-1985) he was fascinated by the Ballet and all forms of Dancing.  See here https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/dancers-gallery/