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Odilon Redon | Portrait of Marie Botkine, 1900 | Art in Detail



Portrait of Marie Botkine
Autor: Odilon Redon (1840-1916)*
Date: 1900
Style: Symbolism
Genre: Portrait
Media: Pastel, paper
Dimensions: 48 x 64 cm
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

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Tenaya Sims | Figurative painter


Tenaya Sims received a BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
After working several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision, he began his classical studies at the Jeff Watts🎨 Atelier in Encinitas, CA.
He then moved to Seattle where he has completed four years of full-time study in the Gage Classical Atelier.

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Rosso Fiorentino | Pietà, 1538-1540 | Musée du Louvre

This is the only easel painting that can be dated with certainty to Rosso's stay in France in 1530-40.
The cushions beneath Christ's body bear the blue alerions on an orange background of the coat of arms of Constable Anne de Montmorency, from whose château at Ecouen the Pietà was taken to the Louvre in the late 18th century.
The marks visible on the bodies of Christ and St John are due to an initial, reversed composition - vsible under X-ray photography - which Rosso had blacked out.


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Rosso Fiorentino | Mannerist painter


Italian painter and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.

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Pontormo | Sacra famiglia, 1515 | Art in Detail



Jacopo Carucci🎨 (May 24, 1494 - January 2, 1557), usually known as simply Pontormo🎨, was not only an painter but also an sculptor from the Florentine School.
To him was attributed: The Holy Family, 1515, terracotta, h. 44 cm, exhibit in the Bode-Museum, Berlin, Germany.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and works by Pontormo see:

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Vitaly Tikhov | Social realist painter

Тихов Виталий Гаврилович (1876-1939) was an Ukrainian painter, one of the best and most talented students in Vladimir Makovsky's studio.
In the early 1910s his magnificent, large-format "bath-house" paintings were especially successful and much admired, and for these he was twice awarded the graduation Gold Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts, having studied there on two separate occasions.


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Michelangelo | Bacchus, 1496-1497



Bacchus (1496-1497) is a marble sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect and poet Michelangelo. The statue is somewhat over life-size and depicts Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, in a reeling pose suggestive of drunkenness. Commissioned by Raffaele Riario, a high-ranking Cardinal and collector of antique sculpture, it was rejected by him and was bought instead by Jacopo Galli, Riario’s banker and a friend to Michelangelo. Along with the Pietà the Bacchus is one of only two surviving sculptures from the artist's first period in Rome.

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Michelangelo | David, 1501-1504

David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501-1504 by Michelangelo.
It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of a standing male. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
Originally commissioned as one of a series of statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of Florence Cathedral, the statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on 8 September 1504.


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Cesare Augusto Detti | Genre painter

A painter from Spoleto who moved to Paris during the Belle Epoque, Cesare Augusto Detti (1847-1914) was an Italian artist, best known for his historical genre paintings in the nineteenth century.
Some of his works are included in the collections of the Uffizi and Galleria Borghese of Rome.
His father, Davide Detti, was an engineer and an amateur painter. As a result, his early interest in art was encouraged.
In 1861, he made the acquaintance of Francesco Coghetti, a painter from Rome who was creating murals at the Teatro Nuovo (now known as the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti).


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Janet Hill | Fashion painter

Janet Hill | Canadian painter | Vintage glamour


Janet Hill, Canadian painter, discovered her passion for painting as a teenager. Janet’s work is both elegant, yet whimsical, often with an underlying narrative that instantly captures the imagination. Her painting style evokes a sense of nostalgia, timeless beauty, mystery, humour and comfort.

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August Macke | Expressionist painter | Part. 1



August Macke (1887-1914) was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Macke, see August Macke | Expressionist painter.

At a 1997, Christie's auction, Macke's The Couple at a Garden Table, 1914, was sold for £2 million. Market in Tunis (1914) sold for £2.86 million ($4.1 million) in 2000. Consigned by th↫+e estate of Ernst Beyeler, the artist’s In the Bazar (1914) was auctioned for £3.96 million - then four and a half times the high estimate - at Christie's in 2011.

August Macke with his wife Elisabeth, 1908

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Tomek Sętowski, 1961 | Magical Realism painter


Once upon a time, a long time ago in the Kraków-Częstochowa Jurassic Highland Chain (Polish: Jura Krakowsko-Częstochowska) Tomek Sętowski was born.
Extraordinary sensitivity that characterized him as a little boy could be seen as soon as he was only three years old when his first painting was created.
A young dreamer had been developing his painting techniques for years, taking giant steps from local galleries to the top-rank exhibitions salons, and, at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Częstochowa Pedagogical University he gained knowledge of the history of art.

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David FeBland, 1949 | Cityscape painter

David FeBland is an internationally recognized British artist known for contemporary figurative oil paintings and expressionist urban landscapes.
He has presented 52 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in the US, Europe and Asia.


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James R. Eads, 1989 | Surrealist Illustrator | After Van Gogh




Los Angeles-based illustrator James R. Eads primarily works in acrylic and on a Wacom tablet to create high quality screenprints and giclee prints that imitate traditional painting and printmaking.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Eads see James R. Eads, 1989 | Surrealist Illustrator | The New-Age Van Gogh.

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James R. Eads, 1989 | The New-Age Van Gogh



James R. Eads was born in Los Angeles, he went to college at Skidmore in upstate New York and then lived in Brooklyn for a few years before relocating to Los Angeles. He lives and works at the Brewery Arts in Los Angeles. His studio is open to the public during the bi-annual artwalks.
Despite his modern method, it’s easy to see traces of past painters and movements in his pieces. Van Gogh is an obvious inspiration, though there are nuances of numerous other impressionist artists’ styles in each and every piece.

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Tyson Snow, 1977 | Figurative Sculptor /painter | Public Art




Award winning artist Tyson Snow has always had a passion for fine art and a desire for an outlet where he could create work that was powerful, personal and beautiful. Tyson has worked tirelessly to improve that idea and has since found the pathway to success.
Tyson has focused on fine art for more than 10 years.

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Douglas Girard, 1969 | Figurative Landscape painter


"...It is as if the artist has created his own mythology. It is a very romantic, evocative painting, technically well balanced and very strong, formally" - Lucinda Barnes, curator of the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art commenting on the painting "Journey".

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Igor Goncharov / Игорь Гончаров, 1959 | Figurative painter



Russian artist Игорь Гончаров graduated from Sverdlovsk Institute of Architecture in 1984. Since 1991, he has successfully held his solo exhibitions in Moscow, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York and other cities around the world.
He currently lives and works in Siberian environmental settlement "Dwelling of Dawn" Krasnoyarsk Krai (foothills of Sayan).
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Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин | Abstract Figurative painter



Ukrainian-born painter Elen Zelin /Элен Зелин was born in Odessa, one of the main cultural centers of the coasts of the Black Sea and the former Soviet Union.
From an early age she studied the basic principles of Visual Art at Odessa Art School. In 1978 she graduated from Odessa Pedagogical University, majoring in Fine Art and Graphics.
Since 1989 worked in Greece. Her works are found in many galleries and private collections.
She is an active member of the Fine Arts Chamber of Greece. Since 2011 lives and creates her unique Art in New York.

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Khalil Gibran | Sulla libertà / Freedom

Alle porte della città e presso il focolare vi ho veduto, prostrati, adorare la vostra libertà,
Così come gli schiavi si umiliano in lodi davanti al tiranno che li uccide.
Sì, al bosco sacro e all'ombra della rocca ho visto che per il più libero di voi la libertà non era che schiavitù e oppressione.

Bellor 1911-2000 | Belgian Symbolist painter

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Andy Warhol | Goethe, 1982


"Finché rimaniamo generici chiunque può imitarci, mentre il nostro particolare non può imitarlo nessuno, perché gli altri non lo hanno vissuto".
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe -
"As long as we remain generic anyone can imitate, while our particular can not imitate anyone, because others have not lived".
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Pablo Picasso | Il Guernica, 1937


  • Artist: Pablo Picasso
  • Date: 1937 (May 1st-June 4th, Paris)
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 349 cm × 776 cm (137.4 in × 305.5 in)
  • Location: Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  • Entry date: 1992
  • On display in: Room 206.06
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Pablo Picasso | Cubist painter / sculptor


The artistic genius of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)🎨 has impacted the development of modern and contemporary art with unparalleled magnitude.
His prolific output includes over 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, theater sets and costumes that convey myriad intellectual, political, social and amorous messages.

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Winslow Homer | Summer Night / Notte d'estate, 1890

Winslow Homer started his career as a graphic reporter during the American Civil War, before going on to paint scenes of army life and the rural world with the Naturalist precision which then prevailed in American painting.
After a stay in Paris, Homer used an Impressionist palette for a while then developed a personal style midway between Realism and Symbolism.
Summer Night perfectly expresses this synthesis and may be considered one of the first masterpieces of American art still in search of its identity.


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Michelangelo | The Last Judgment, 1535-1541



The mighty composition, painted by Michelangelo between 1536-1541, is centred around the dominant figure of Christ, captured in the moment preceding that when the verdict of the Last Judgement is uttered (Matthew 25:31-46). His calm imperious gesture seems to both command attention and placate the surrounding agitation. It starts a wide slow rotary movement in which all the figures are involved.

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Oscar Pardo, 1967 | Abstract Figurative painter




Spanish self-taught artist and painter Oscar Álvarez Pardo was born, living and working in Zaragoza, Spain.
In my watercolors, after years of dedication and learning to master this so difficult medium, there is an initial stage devoted to a hard work essentially realistic... mainly portraits and seascapes become a constant in my work. In what could be a second stage I begin to introducer the fantasy in my paintings, realistic work alternating with others of fantástco court.

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Paul Gauguin | Post-Impressionist painter


Paul Gauguin, in full Eugène-Henri-Paul Gauguin (born June 7, 1848, Paris, France-died May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia) French painter, printmaker and sculptor who sought to achieve a "primitive” expression of spiritual and emotional states in his work.
The artist, whose work has been categorized as Post-Impressionist, Synthetist and Symbolist, is particularly well known for his creative relationship with Vincent van Gogh as well as for his self-imposed exile in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
His artistic experiments influenced many avant-garde developments in the early 20th century.

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Paul Gauguin | Barbarian poems, 1896 | Art in Detail


Original Title: Poèmes Barbares
Date: 1896; French Polynesia
Style: Cloisonnism
Period: 2nd Tahiti period
Genre: Portrait
Media: Oil, canvas
Dimensions: 47 x 63 cm
Location: Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US

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Christian Della Giustina, 1959 | Sculptor and 3D painter

Born in Gonesse-France and of Italian origin (from Venice), Christian Della Giustina grew up in an artistic atmosphere.
He makes masterpieces in bronze.
His coloured patinas catch the light and touch the emotion.
To reinvent and model life, to transform it with his sensitivity and emotions: that is Christian Della Giustina's aspiration.
He uses small formats for his work, a human dimension.


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Caravaggio | Baroque Era painter | The Hands


Revolutionary in his way of painting, Caravaggio personifies in every aspect of his eventful life the romantic figure of the damned artist. Born in Milan, he worked mainly in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily.
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Caravaggio | The Portraits


The following portraits are details of the paintings by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).

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Nelson Molina, 1958 | Cityscape painter


Nelson Molina is an Brazilian painter, known for working in the Impressionism style. Nelson Molina was born in the city of Sorocaba, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
A very personal technique, the strong tooled who made school, it's his identity.
His artworks are exhibited extensively in public and private exhibition spaces in Brazil and abroad.


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Valentin de Boulogne | The Crowning with Thorns, 1620 | Art in Detail


This masterpiece of Baroque naturalism is among the first known works painted by Valentin de Boulogne, Caravaggio’s most accomplished French follower and arguably his greatest acolyte. Painted in Rome in 1615 or shortly thereafter, it shows to what extent and how quickly the Frenchman had absorbed Caravaggio’s radical innovations.

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Witali Zuk /Виталий Жук, 1973 | Fantasy Art


Bиталий Жук (Vitus) was born in 1973.
At the moment he lives and works in Minsk.
Witaly graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Ilya Repin in St. Petersburg.
Witalys' picture differs good choice of colors and the wonderful play of light.
Witaly attaches great the value of detail in his works, which create an unforgettable atmosphere of the picture.

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Gaetano Bellei | Academic / Genre painter

The Italian master Gaetano Bellei was born in Modena in 1857, died in the same city in March 1922.
A student of Adeodato Malatesta and companion of John Muzzioli.
Twenty-four he won the Retired Potetti that allowed him to travel to Rome for some time learning about yourself.


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José Puyet | Modern Impressionist painter


José Puyet Padilla (1922-2004) was an Spanish modern impressionist painter, whose popularity spread throughout Spain and the United States.

Early life

Puyet was born in Malaga, Spain. He was grandson of teacher José Padilla, a spanish artist who began painting in the nineteenth century. As a child, Puyet learned to paint by watching his grandfather, whose company he preferred to that of children his own age.
By age eight, he had started working in pencils and oils. At age 20, Puyet entered the Spanish military, due to World War II, and was sent to the exclave of Melilla. The experience deepened his observations of new personages and atmospheres.

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Tina Cassati | Surrealist Fashion



Berlin based artist Tina Cassati, makes COSTUMES (sculpture le mode and giardino di arte), ruffs, hats-, bags- and shoes-, jewelry objects into modern surreale digital-photo-art worlds and illustrations.
She paints, sews, draws, photographs, digital collage (mixed media, collage, illustration). She does not care about genres. Her work is influenced by Renaissance, Baroque, Traditional Clothing (Folk Costumes) fairy tales. To her, fashion is fine art.

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Jeffrey Randolph Richter

Jeffrey Randolph Richter: While I have been interested in art for as long as I can remember, I did not have a chance to begin developing my talent until my third year of high school. It was in this class that I gained experience with drawing and painting mediums.
I began attending East Central College in Union, MO, in the fall of 1999. While there I was able to expand my skills through a wide variety of classes, including drawing, painting, printmaking, figure drawing, design, and business of art.

Jeffrey Randolph Richter | American Visionary illustrator

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Licio Passon, 1965 | Venice painting



Licio Passon was born in Udine, Italy. To comprehend the artistic life of Licio Passon you can’t neglect his belonging to his homeland of the Friuli region and his truest and most profound values of a rustic life that he has made his own and not revisited as a faded memory. The people who have formed him have been his parents who well knew the hardship of the fields.