The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 6. Donatello *** Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (1386-1466), better known as Donatello, invented neo-classical sculpture…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives your room his name: 5. Filippo Brunelleschi *** Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446), truly a Renaissance Man, built the soaring, gravity-defying dome of…
Agnolo Bronzino, Eleonora di Toledo and her son Giovanni de’ Medici. The Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Public domain: Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons. The life and inspiring works of the…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives his name to your room: 3: Sandro Botticelli *** We’ll bet you’ve never heard of Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni…
The life and inspiring works of the artist who gives her name to your room: 2: Sofonisba Anguissola*** This delightful family portrait, of her three younger sisters playing chess, was…
The first of our artists whose life and times are celebrated in Watermill bedroom names: 1. Alberti*** Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was an extraordinary Renaissance polymath: architect, artist, author, mathematician,…
Continuing our notes on the early Renaissance artists after whom our Watermill bedrooms are named*, today it’s the turn of Paolo Uccello. Uccello (1397-1475,) was a pioneer of the use…
Celebrating Italian artists who inspired Watermill bedroom names: 4: Donatello The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more…
Celebrating Italian artists who inspired Watermill bedroom names: 3: Brunelleschi The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more about…
The Watermill’s bedrooms are named after famous Italian artists* and we thought it would be fun to tell you more about them in a series of short articles. We’ll also…
When entering the Duomo, the cathedral of Santa Maria Fiore in Florence, the natural tendency is to look up, into the soaring space of the dome, the capolavoro of my…