Randolph Rogers | Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii, 1859

"Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii" by Randolph Rogers (Waterloo, New York 1825-1892 Rome) was the most popular American sculpture of the nineteenth century.

According to Rogers, it was replicated 167 times in two sizes.

The subject was drawn from "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), a widely read novel by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which ends with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79.

Rogers’s evocative portrayal of Nydia highlights her heroic attempt to lead two companions out of the burning, ash-covered city.

Aldo Balding, 1960 | Figurative painter

Aldo Balding is a prominent contemporary British figurative artist and portrait painter known for his romantic, cinematic style.

Balding identifies primarily as a tonalist painter, building his compositions on light, shadow, and color harmony rather than rigid lines.

His work is deeply influenced by legendary masters like John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Joaquín Sorolla.

His paintings look like frozen stills from classic mid-century movies.

Christophe Jacrot, 1960 | Paris under the Rain

French photographer Christophe Jacrot lives and works in Paris.

He started off in the film industry, before moving on to photography, his first passion.

Christophe started photographing the rain by accident.

- “I had an order for a travel book about Paris, and sun was a pre-requisite for all the photos!

But the weather was desperately rotten, and that is how I had the idea of starting the Paris in the rain series. It was a sort of contradiction…”

Tranquillo Cremona | Romantic painter

Tranquillo Cremona (10 April 1837 - 10 June 1878) was an Italian painter.

He was born in Pavia and was the brother of the mathematician Luigi Cremona.

He trained as a young man with Giovanni Carnovali. He lived in Venice from 1852-1859.

Cremona moved to Milan and he became part of the Scapigliatura movement which was characterized by bohemian attitudes and included poets, writers, musicians and artists infused with a combination of rebellious, and later anti-academic and anarchic, tendencies.

I giardini idilliaci di Willem Haenraets

Nato a Rotterdam, Willem Haenraets è un celebre pittore impressionista Olandese universalmente riconosciuto per il suo stile romantico, aereo e caratterizzato dall'uso di colori pastello soffusi.

Haenraets aveva solo 16 anni quando iniziò la sua formazione all'Accademia di Maastricht, ad cui seguì un ulteriore percorso di studi presso l'Accademia d'arte di Anversa.

Grazie ad una borsa di studio per studenti di talento, acquisì la sua maturità artistica come allievo maestro dei rinomati professori Sarina e Vaarten.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Figurative painter

For Fabian Perez, the purpose of art is to perpetuate beauty: "That is what I am always striving for. God created the world and embellished it with the wonders of nature.

I think it is the artist’s job to embellish it with his work.

I am constantly fighting for a more romantic world, one where the woman and the man have defined roles and power isn’t always the goal.

I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it".

Włodzimierz Czurawski, 1960 | Romantic painter

Belarusian painter Włodzimierz Czurawski / Владимир Чуравский (also known as Vladimir Zhuravsky) was born near Grodno, Belarus.

He has graduated from the A.K. Glebow National Art Academy in Minsk.

He has exhibited his art multiple times in his home country of Belarus.

His work is characterised by its subtlety and calm, dimmed colour scheme.

The artist in his landscape art or paintings still life using his masterful skills is able to create an effect of a magical depth.

Stanislaw Sugintas, 1969 | Romantic fantasy painter

Stanisław Sugintas (also known as Stanislavas Sugintas) is a prominent contemporary Polish-Lithuanian artist born in Vilnius, Lithuania, known for his expressive, fantasy-infused oil paintings that prominently feature female portraits, figures, animals, and floral arrangements.

His unique style blends textured, abstract backgrounds with highly detailed, classical figurative subjects.

He is widely recognized for his figurative oil paintings, which feature a distinct blend of romanticism, fantasy, and soft color palettes.

Attended the Vilnius Art School for gifted children and graduated from the Vilnius Middle Art School in 1984.

Egidio Antonaccio, 1954 | Impressionist painter

Italian painter Egidio Antonaccio is an Impressionist whose oil paintings express his love of nature and a man gifted with a rare talent.

Having studied with some of the great Italian masters of fine art, he has developed a brilliant and commanding style.

Born in Castelluccio, Italy, Egidio Antonaccio graduated from the Institute of Fine Art in Castrovillari, Italy, in 1973.

Then in 1978, he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Alan Douar, 1963 | Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore... / When you ask what love is

Quando ti chiedi cos'è l'amore,

immagina due mani ardenti

che si incontrano,

due sguardi perduti l'uno nell'altro,

due cuori che tremano

di fronte all'immensità di un sentimento,

e poche parole

per rendere eterno un istante.

Dorina Costras

Sung Sam Park, 1949 | Neo-Impressionist painter

Korean painter Sung Sam Park was born in Soeul, where he began painting at the age of twelve.

His talent and teaching abilities were quickly recognized and by the age of thirteen, while still a junior high school student, Park taught painting at the local high school.

Early on, Park attracted the attention of prominent artists and heads of state.

Byen Si-Jin, former university president of Jo-Joo Island, was his private art teacher and mentor.

The former president of South Korea, Yoon Bo-Sun, personally awarded him many First Places in the national competitions of the Mok-Woo Art Society.

Richard S. Johnson, 1953 | Impressionist painter

Richard S. Johnson is an award-winning contemporary American painter based in Chicago, Illinois. Johnson was born in Chicago to a family of artists.

While still in primary school, Johnson was accepted as a scholar to the Art Institute of Chicago.

A graduate of the American Academy of Art, he embarked on a career as an illustrator.

Johnson's style has been regarded as having the technical excellence of Pre-Raphaelite Romanticism mixed with contemporary Expressionism and Abstraction.

Frederic Edwin Church | Hudson River School

Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) was perhaps the best-known representative of the Hudson River School of landscape painting as well as one its most traveled.

Born in Hartford in 1826, he was the privileged son of Joseph Church, a jeweler and banker of that city, who interceded with Connecticut scion and collector Daniel Wadsworth to persuade the landscape painter Thomas Cole to accept his son as a pupil.

From 1844-1846, Church studied with Cole in his Catskill, New York, studio and accompanied him on sketching sojourns in the Catskill Mountains and the Berkshires of Massachusetts.

At one point, the master characterized the student as having "the finest eye for drawing in the world".

William Blake: "È più facile perdonare un nemico che un amico"!

• "Il Cristianesimo è Arte e non soldi. I Soldi sono la sua Maledizione".

• "Reprimono il desiderio solo quelli che lo hanno tanto debole da poterlo reprimere".

• "È più facile perdonare un nemico che un amico".

• "La via dell'eccesso conduce al palazzo della saggezza".

• "Nessun uccello vola troppo in alto, se vola con le proprie ali".

• "Chi manca di coraggio è esuberante d'astuzia".

• "Una verità detta con cattiva intenzione batte tutte le bugie che si possono inventare".

• "Nel tempo della semina impara, in quello del raccolto insegna, d'inverno godi".

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Male painting

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists.

His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.

Albert Lynch | Belle Époque painter

Born in Lima, Peru, Albert Lynch (1860-1950) settled in Paris, where he studied at l'École des Beaux-Arts.

Lynch worked under the guidance of painters Jules Achille Noël, Gabriel Ferrier and Henri Lehmann.

He showed his artwork in the Salon of French artists which he won in 1890 and 1892 and in the World's Fair of 1900 during which he received a gold medal.

Irina Karkabi, 1960 | Romantic painter

Ukrainian artist Irina Vitalievna Karkabi was born in Kharkov, Ukraine.

Her artistic talent was noticed by those around her in early childhood.

In 1982, almost immediately after graduating from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, she, along with her husband and newborn son, moved to the city of Haifa in northern Israel (occupied palestine), where she settled on the seashore.

There, at the Mediterranean crossroads of cultural ideas and artistic trends, Irina founded her studio.

Tony Chow, 1974 | Figurative painter

Born in Taipei, Tawain, Chinese painter Tony Chow was obvious that he showed an appreciation for the masters.

At the age of 11, Tony’s interest sprang a dedication to express his talents on canvas as well as an understanding to the motives behind such masterpieces.

Tony came to the United Stated in 1995.

He received a B.A. in Fine Art from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2000.

From here, his interest and talents developed into a unique style all his own.

Brent Heighton, 1954 | Romantic painter

Canadian painter Brent Heighton has been a professional artist for over 40 years.

His career in fine arts has allowed him to travel throughout the world in search of adventure and subjects to paint.

He is an explorer by nature, constantly trying out innovative techniques.

He paints with intensity and economy, rarely wasting a motion or brush stroke, and is often called upon to give instruction in the art of painting.

Brent Heighton’s watercolors, oils and acrylics have won many awards and are found in corporate and private collections in more than 25 countries.

Fabian Perez, 1967 | Flamenco Dancers

Growing up in Argentina, Fabian Perez developed a fondness for art through his parents, who possessed strong creative sides but were never professional artists.

His mother drew, and it rubbed off on Perez, who excelled in art classes and painted murals on the walls of his school at his teachers' requests.