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http : / / commons.wikimedia.org / wiki / Category: Giovanni Boldini Giovanni_Boldini born in Ferrara
the December 31, 1842, and died in Paris
on January 11, 1931, was a painter italiano.Las women had always a forefront role in his life, portraying extolled its best features, stretched legs, hands, feet, exalting natural attraction.
After achieving fame and wealth, he continued to engage in the work, carefully programmed, every one of his paintings is preceded by sketches, notes and evidence for formal perfection. Even his features quick strokes, called "sciabolate" that gave life and movement to her paintings, were carefully studied. Boldoni women are flexible in nature and showing no reluctance uninhibited model scholar and beauty, discovering, affirming their own self-determination of individuals mature and emancipated, fully aware of their own femininity. Fantastic nature
and conturbante, get excited to artist's studio, eager to flee his palace protocol, to relax the rigid armor of thin strips of whalebone horns, to abandon, free finally, finally feel protagonists, admired and above all understood, against the "Faun" to that little man against which they can not shut their innermost desires. Boldoni
not judge because judge would deny his dissolute nature but, in contrast, encourages them to express themselves, collect their confusions, anxieties and leads us to reflect on the folly of time and love that lives in an instant. The artist knows how to catch the flight time, unrepeatable in which the beauty is more brightly, and in which the muses are more casual and natural. However, these portraits are full of such beauty often disturbed by a sense of temporariness, floating veiled, which is sensed in the air and looks, for nostalgic moments, sometimes arrogant or melancholy, unfulfilled and restless female guilty of vanity, accomplices pleased and certainly dominated by the image problem that the Italian genius artist exalts ellas.El will of the ego of their model portraying, often only a moment before being reached by the autumn of life, beauty fades forever, rose scented leaves begin to fall. Sometimes, as a wizard, pick the fragile petals and with a gesture of love restoring the fading flower reconstructs a moment of eternal spring. ... ********
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Sarah Bernhardt 
Nemidoff Mademoiselle 
Maria Eulalia of Spain 
Portrait of Mary Donegan 
Portrait of Madame Doyen 
Portrait of Rita de Acosta Lydig 
Consuelo Vanderbilt 
Elizabeth Wharton Drexel. 
Gladys Deacon 
Lady Colin Campbell (Gertrude Elizabeth Blood)(1857-1911) 
Mrs. Leeds , the later Princess Anastasia of Greece (and Denmark) , 1914 
Portrait of Virginia Graham Fair (1875–1935), later Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt 
