Talavera Poblana, Bay City, Texas, summer 2015. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 40 W x 30 H in (101.6 W x 76.2 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Inspired by the colors of Talavera pottery, in Puebla, Mexico. It is a mixture of Italian, Spanish and indigenous ceramic techniques, distinguished by a milky-white glaze, cobalt blue, yellow, black, green and orange.

Deux arabesques. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy. They are two of Debussy’s earliest works, composed between the years 1888 and 1891, when he was still in his twenties. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. His view of a musical arabesque was a line…

La Derrota de Quimera. Buenos Aires, spring 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 47.2 W x 39.4 H in (120 W x 100 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York THE KHIMAIRA (or Chimera) was a monstrous beast which ravaged the countryside of Lykia in Anatolia. It was a composite creature, with the body and maned head of a lion, a goat’s head rising from its back, a set of goat-udders, and a serpentine tail. The hero Bellerophon was commanded to slay it by King Iobates. He rode into battle against the beast on the…

Marduk. Buenos Aires, winter 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 43.3 W x 59 H in (110 W x 150 H cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Marduk was the Babylonian name of a late-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political center of the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th century BCE). In the perfected system of astrology, the planet Jupiter was associated with Marduk by the Hammurabi period. The etymology of the name Marduk is conjectured as derived from…

Jardin des Tuileries, Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas. Size: 43.3 W x 59 H in ( 110 W x 150 H cm). © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. On October 6, 1789, as the French Revolution be an, King Louis XVI was brought against his will to the Tuileries Palace, located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde, Paris.Queen Marie Antoinette and the Dauphin were allowed to promenade in the Jardin des Tuileries on the evening of September 18, 1791, during the festival organized to celebrate the new French…

Barolo. Buenos Aires, summer 2014. Painting, Oil on canvas, Size: 59 H x 59 W in (150 H x 150 W cm).  © 2014 Florencia San Martin Brück/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York I went to a private party at “Palacio Barolo”, the building energy and its history got in me and from that night the inspiration of my painting “Barolo”. History Italian architect Mario Palanti was commissioned to design the building by the empresario Luis Barolo, an Italian immigrant who had arrived in Argentina in 1890 and had made a fortune in knitted fabrics. The Palacio Barolo was designed in…