Andrea Mantegna | Renaissance painter

Andrea Mantegna, (born 1431, Isola di Cartura [near Vicenza], Republic of Venice [Italy]-died September 13, 1506, Mantua), painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi ("Room of the Bride and Groom"), or Camera Picta ("Painted Room") (1474), in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua, for which he developed a self-consistent illusion of a total environment. Mantegna’s other principal works include the Ovetari Chapel frescoes (1448-55) in the Eremitani Church in Padua and the Triumph of Caesar (begun c. 1486), the pinnacle of his late style.

Melozzo da Forlì | Early Renaissance painter

Melozzo da Forlì ⏩, original name Melozzo degli Ambrogi, (born June 8, 1438, Forlì, near Ravenna, Italy - died November 8, 1494, Forlì), early Renaissance painter⏩ whose style was influenced by Andrea Mantegna⏩ and Piero della Francesca ⏩.
Melozzo was one of the great fresco artists of the 15th century, and he is noted for his skilled use of illusionistic perspective and foreshortening.

Onorio Marinari (1627-1715) | Sant’Agnese

Onorio Marinari (1627 - January 5, 1715) was an Italian painter ⏭ and printmaker of the Baroque period ⏭, active mainly in Florence.

His father, Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari, was also a painter, and he trained with his cousin, Carlo Dolci ⏭, later being also influenced by Simone Pignoni and Francesco Furini ⏭.

His fresco in the Palazzo Capponi, Florence, is dated 1707. In 1674 he published his illustrated Fabbrica ed uso dell'Annulo Astronomico. Bartolomeo Bimbi was one of his pupils.

Jaroslav Seifert / Roberto Ferri | Scruto la tua fronte..

Scruto la tua fronte

come un pilota il pannello degli strumenti

quando vola nella tempesta.

Ti ho incontrata così tardi

e così all’improvviso.

Emma Ekwall (1838-1925) | Genre / Portrait painter

Emma Amalia Ekwall was an Swedish painter;

Birthdate: 18 Gennaio 1838;

Birthplace: Säby församling (F-län), Jönköpings län (på Gransbo);

Death: Died 1 Febbraio 1925 in Gustav Vasa församling, Stockholms län;

Parenti stretti: Daughter of Nils Fredrik Ekwall e Emilia Bernardina Carolina Carolina Ekwall;

Sister of painter Knut Alfred Ekwall.

Marcel Duchamp | Dadaist / Surrealist Conceptual painter

Born in Blainville, Normandy, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was the son of a notary and the younger brother of the painter Jacques Villon and the Cubist sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon.

He studied at the Académie Julian in 1904-5. His early figure paintings were influenced by Matisse and Fauvism, but in 1911 he created a personal brand of Cubism combining earthy colours, mechanical and visceral forms, and a depiction of movement which owes as much to Futurism as to Cubism.

His Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, 1912 (Philadelphia Museum of Art), created a sensation at the 1913 New York Armory Show.

Duchamp did very little painting after 1912, creating the first of his 'readymades' in 1913. These were ordinary objects of everyday use, sometimes slightly altered, and designated works of art by the artist.

His earliest readymades included Bicycle Wheel (1913), a wheel mounted on a wooden stool, and a snow shovel entitled In Advance of the Broken Arm (1915).

Jaroslav Seifert | Domandate che sanno fare ancora le donne?

Camille Claudel (1864-1943) | La Valse, 1883-1905 ⎆

Domandate che sanno fare ancora le donne?

Ma tutto!

Se qualcuno distende sopra un abisso

tre fili di paglia,

vi passano sopra con piede leggero.

Come, non so spiegare,

ma ricordate

che i loro piedi hanno inventato la danza.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe | Mentre andavo / Im Vorübergehn

Andavo per i campi

così, per conto mio,

e non cercare niente

era quello che volevo.

Lisete Alcalde, 1981 | Visionary painter

Lisete Alcalde, Mexican painter, was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, second child of four children, daughter of Sergio Alcalde Justiniani and Patricia Salas.

Having very unique parenting from her father's profession in iridology and her mother's in emotional therapy, Lisete received both health and spiritual guidance.

At the age of 15 Lisete’s artistic talents started to blossom, once she realized her pastime went beyond painting.

Pieter de Hooch | Legacy / L'Eredità artistica

Pieter de Hooch's (20 December 1629 (baptized) - 24 March 1684) influence persisted under the misnomer of the "De Hooch School".

Although there are no records of him having formal students, his work resonated with numerous artists, including van der Burgh and Pieter Janssens Elinga, the latter of whom likely based his painting Woman with a Pearl Necklace on de Hooch's style, with many of his other works reflecting de Hooch's Delft period.

Emmanuel de Witte is also said to have been influenced by his younger colleague.