Salvator Rosa | Baroque painter

Salvator Rosa (1615 - March 15, 1673) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, who was active in Naples, Rome and Florence.

As a painter, he is best known as "unorthodox and extravagant" as well as being a "perpetual rebel" and a proto-Romantic.

He was born in Arenella, at that time in the outskirts of Naples, on either June 20 or July 21, 1615.

Camille Przewodek | Plein Air / Colorist painter

Camille Przewodek was born in Detroit, Michigan. She grew up inspired by her artistically-talented brother to pursue a career in art. After graduating with a degree in painting from Wayne State University, she migrated to the West Coast.

A perennial student, she saw fit to expand her “left brain” education with several semesters of political science at City College of San Francisco.

Later on she decided she’d like to train as a commercial artist so she enrolled at the Academy of Art College, earning a BFA in Illustration. At this point she met her future husband, Dale Axelrod, who introduced her to master painter, teacher and colorist, Henry Hensche.

Laugé Achille | Neo-impressionist painter

French painter Achille Laugé (1861-1944) was an Neo-Impressionist painter born in Arzens.

In 1882, he began his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts under the direction of French artists Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921).

In Paris, he met artist Aristide Maillol (French painter, 1861-1944), with whom he shared a studio and maintained a life-long exchange and friendship.

Daniele da Volterra | Descent from the Cross, 1545

Daniele Ricciarelli (c. 1509 - 4 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian painter, Mannerist and sculptor.
Daniele's best-known painting is the Descent from the Cross in the Trinità dei Monti (circa 1545), after drawings by Michelangelo; by an excess of praise this work was at one time grouped with Raphael's Transfiguration and the Last Communion of St. Jerome by Domenichino as the most famous pictures in Rome.

Renato Natali | Post-Macchiaioli painter

Benato Natali (1883-1979) was born in Livorno-Italy, from a modest family, where perhaps the father, hatter by profession, led him to enroll at the School of Arts and Crafts. Not too temperamentally suited to the school system began to devote himself to drawing a self-taught, and even when one of his companions urged him to attend the study of Guglielmo Micheli little and did so against his will.