Power point presentation by a 4th ESO student. Based on Il Bacio (The kiss) by Francesco Hayez. Contents: Analysis of the picture, other paintings by Hayez, short biography.
2. NAME OF THE PICTURE. CHARACTERISTICS
• This Picture is named The Kiss
• The Kiss is a 1859 painting
• The Picture is oil paited on canvas
• The Kiss is located in Pinacoteca di Brera (“Brera Art Gallery”), Milan
• The painting represents a couple from the Middle Ages, embaracing
while they kiss each other
• This painting conveys the main features of Italian Romanticism
3. WHO PAITED IT? WHEN AND WHERE?
• The Kiss was painted by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez
• The Kiss is an 1859 painting
• The Picture was painted in Milan
• Francisco Hayez (1791 – 1882) was an Italian painter, the leading
artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his
grand historical paintings, political allegories, and exceptionally fine
portraits
4. OTHER PAINTINGS BY THE SAME ARTIST
Destruction of Temple of
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