Picasso's Blue Period Blindman's Meal" (1903, the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and in the portrait of "Celestina" (1903). Infrared imagery of Picasso's 1901 painting "The Blue Room" reveals another painting beneath the surface. Other frequent subjects include female nudes and mothers with children. Solitary figures dominate his Blue Period works. Themes of loneliness, poverty and despair pervade the works as well. Possibly his most well known work from this period is "The Old Guitarist." Other major works include "Portrait of Soler" (1903) and "Las dos hermanas" (1904). Picasso's Blue Period was followed by his Rose Period. Picasso's bout with depression gradually ended, and
Pietro Bianchi (painter) Pietro Bianchi (painter) Pietro Bianchi (September 1694 – 2 September 1740) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa and Rome. Pietro’s father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing. As a boy he was placed in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the Genoese Giovanni Battista Gaulli. In 1707, at age 13, he won a drawing competition sponsored by