Magdalena Serwin, 1983 | Figurative painter

Magdalena Serwin is an Polish artist born in the Jastrzębiu-Zdroju region, specializing in oil and putty technique.

Graduate of the State Higher Vocational School in Raciborz with a major in applied arts. Under the tutelage of great artists she explored the arts of painting, graphic arts as well as photography.

To a large extent, however, self-taught, for whom painting is a passion and at the same time a kind of peace, a respite from everyday matters.

When painting a picture, he always tries to find something unusual in the ordinary.

Ordinary characters, not known to anyone, with whom any viewer can identify, make friends....

Nicola Vietti, 1945 | Figurative painter

Nicola Vietti was born in Marseille to Italian parents emigrated from Apulia in France at the beginning of the century. Numerous solo and group exhibitions.

And 'present in catalogs and magazines. He currently lives and works in Milan, after a long period spent in Paris.

The figures of maidens Nicola Vietti, you can look on each side, three-quarter profile, facing away.

The style might defer to their fathers, that should not be forgotten at this point, as the International Botero and Bueno Nicola Vietti that offer a hint of a departure of style attempted with disenchantment.

Matthias Grünewald | Altare di Issenheim, 1512-1516

L'Altare di Isenheim (o Issenheim, secondo la denominazione francese della città alsaziana) costituisce l'opera più importante eseguita da Matthias Grünewald (1475-1528), uno dei più importanti pittori Tedeschi, noto per la drammaticità visionaria con cui ha affrontato temi di carattere religioso.

Si tratta di una sorprendente "macchina di altare" fatta di ante fisse ed ante rimovibili, che possono assumere tre diverse configurazioni.

Committente dell'opera fu l'abate del monastero di Issenheim, Guido Guersi.

Essa era destinata alla preghiera dei monaci antoniani e dei tanti malati (soprattutto quelli sofferenti del "Fuoco di Sant'Antonio") che venivano pietosamente accolti nel monastero.

Gustave Boulanger | Il pittore Néo-Grec

Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger (1824-1888) è stato un pittore di figure, artista accademico Francese ed insegnante, noto per i suoi soggetti classici ed orientalisti.

Boulanger fu una figura chiave del movimento artistico Néo-Grec, che cercava di reinterpretare la vita quotidiana dell'antica Grecia e di Roma con precisione archeologica ed un tocco di eleganza moderna.

Di origine creola ed orfano a 14 anni, fu allievo di Pierre Jules Jollivet (1754-1871) e di Paul Delaroche all'École des Beaux-Arts nel 1846.

Vinse il Prix de Rome nel 1849 con l'"Ulisse riconosciuto da Euriclea", divenne membro dell'Accademia di Belle Arti nel 1882 ed insegnò nell'Académie Julian.

I paesaggi emotivi di Isaac Levitan

Isaak Il'ič Levitan / Исаак Ильич Левитан (1860-1900) è stato un pittore, docente e paesaggista Russo.

È considerato il più importante paesaggista russo del XIX secolo.

Figura emblematica dei Peredvizhniki (I Vagabondi), fu pioniere del genere "Paesaggio dell'umore" ("paesaggio emotivo" / "paesaggio dello stato d'animo" / "mood landscape"), catturando non solo scene di natura ma anche le emozioni sottili legate alla stagione, alla luce ed alla solitudine.

Morì prematuramente a soli 39 anni a causa di una malattia cardiaca.

Rainer Maria Rilke | Do not be afraid, it’s me / Non aver paura, sono io..

Do not be afraid, it’s me.

You do not feel that I infringe on you,

with all your senses?

He put wings, my heart,

and now, white flies around your face.

Do not you see my soul before you,

adorned with silence?

Jean-Claude Campana, 1941 | It's Carnival time

Jean-Claude Campana is an French painter, who has been painting for more than thirty years, started his career by exhibiting together with Baboulène, Buffet, Hilaire, Brayer...

The approach of these Masters encourages the talent of Campana, who already in his youth, builds up a strong character.

Strengthened by his expérience in surrealism, symbolism and realism, Jean-Claude Campana has been devoted to Venice since about a fifteen years, in a very personal style.

Agnes Slott-Møller | Symbolist painter

Agnes Slott-Møller, born Rambusch (10 June, 1862, in Nyboder - June 11, 1937 in Løgismose) was the daughter of the later commander in the Navy Jacob Heinrich Victor Rambusch (1825-1886) and his wife Constantine Juliane born Hansen (1834-1891).

She was a Danish painter and sculptor who was influenced by Italian art before the Renaissance, British Pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts Movement in his image and style.

Alphonse Osbert | Symbolist / Pointillist painter

Alphonse Osbert (23 March 1857 - 11 August 1939) was a French Symbolist painter.

Educated at the École des Beaux-Arts, his earliest passion was for the great Spanish masters, particularly Jusepe de Ribera. A shift away from his academic style took place in the late 1880s under the influence of several acquaintances associated with Post-Impressionism* and Symbolism*.