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Alex Bertaina, 1963 | Abstract painter

Maybe my sky and my sea are united, as our existence, between transport towards nature and departure from it and they shall treat these wounds" - Alex Bertaina

Alex Bertaina is an Italian painter, born in Turin. He lives and work in Cuneo, in North West Italy.


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Gianni Gueggia, 1956 | Expressionist painter

Italian painter Gianni Gueggia was born in Trenzano, Brescia, Italy.
He began exhibiting his works since 1973.
He has participated in numerous national and international awards and received many favors from the critics.


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Daria Petrilli, 1970 | Pop-Surrealist Illustrator

Daria Petrilli is an award winning illustrator, born in Rome, Italy.
After graduating with an MA in Communication and Design at the Università La Sapienza, she took on various agency roles as a graphic designer and illustrator in Rome.
Later she moved to London, where she completed a Diploma in Experimental Illustration at the LCC - part of the University of the Arts London, achieving the highest possible grade.


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Bartolomeo Veneto | High Renaissance painter


Bartolomeo Veneto (1502-1555) was an Italian painter who worked in Venice, the Veneto and Lombardy.
During his time in Venice, he studied under Gentile Bellini.
The little information available about Bartolomeo's life has been derived from his signatures, dates, and inscriptions.
His best known works are portraits or pictures with portrait-like character.
Bartolomeo's later works, and especially those done on commission in Milan, indicate an influence from the artist Leonardo da Vinci.

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Pasquale Celommi | A good catch, 1895

Pasquale Celommi (1851-1928) was an Italian painter, known for his outdoor scenes of Italian life in verist style.
Born in Montepagano, Abruzzo, Italy, he developed a keen eye for detail and depicted everyday life with a captivating realism.
Thanks to the help of a local landowner, Don Camillo Mezzopreti, and to a contribution of 30 lire by the Municipality, he managed to study until the year 1873, when he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.


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Canaletto | London paintings, 1746-1755

The revered Venetian landscape painter Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 - 19 April 1768), known as Canaletto, enjoyed a roaring trade from English visitors to Italy in his early career, but by 1740 the War of the Austrian Succession had taken hold and tourism was dwindling.
In 1746, Canaletto decided to move to London to be closer to his market.
At this time Britain was flourishing under newfound wealth.


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Lorenzo Quinn, 1966 | Figurative sculptor

Contemporary Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn is a leading figurative sculptor whose work is inspired by such masters as Michelangelo, Bernini and Rodin.
Exhibited internationally, his monumental public art and smaller, more intimate pieces transmit his passion for eternal values and authentic emotions.
He is best known for expressive recreations of human hands:
"I wanted to sculpt what is considered the hardest and most technically challenging part of the human body", he asserts.
"The hand holds so much power - the power to love, to hate, to create, to destroy".


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Pasquale Celommi | Verist painter

Pasquale Celommi (1851-1928) was born in Montepagano - Italy, into a family of fishermen.
Celommi showed an early interest in art and often drew in his home as a child.
Celommi decided to receive academic training and moved Florence to study under Antonio Ciseri at the Academy of Florence.
He was a strong student and often praised by his teacher Ciseri. Celommi started exhibiting his work in various regions of Italy.
Celommi had a large exhibition in Turin and eventually in Rome.