Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Palette knife painter

Cristina Fornarelli was born in Bari, Italy.

After art school, she attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Rome where she still lives and works.

She has taken part in many national and international art fairs.

The subjects of her paintings are always women in equilibrium, hanging on swings, dangling in the air, dancing in an indefinite space emphasizing this delicate atmosphere.

Lorenzo Lotto | High Renaissance painter

Lorenzo Lotto, (1480-1556), late Renaissance Italian painter known for his perceptive portraits and mystical paintings of religious subjects.

He represents one of the best examples of the fruitful relationship between the Venetian and Central Italian (Marche) schools.

Guy Denning, 1965 | Abstract painter

Guy Denning, born in North Somerset, has been obsessed with visual art since childhood and started painting in oils at the age of eleven after receiving a set of old paints from a relative that had grown bored with them.

Through the 1980s he was repeatedly unsuccessful in his applications to study painting at degree level but continued painting whilst studying art history with the Open University and learning painting technique from older painters he knew in the west of England.

Cayetano De Arquer Buigas | Impressionist painter

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas (1932-2012) was a Catalan contemporary figurative painter, especially known for capturing the beauty, sensitivity and delicacy of women of his era through pastel, oil and charcoal techniques.

With an equal mastery, he explored portraiture, figure studies, equestrian subjects, landscapes, scenes of daily life, maternity, taverns and more.

Arquer Buigas stands as perhaps one of the most emblematic inheritors of 19th-century Catalan and French Impressionist style (seen in artists such as Ramón Casas and Eduard Degás).

With his elegant, restrained color palette and compelling balance between composition and subject choices, Buigas’s output has afforded him the status of a beloved, enduring master.

Master of the Female Half-Lengths | St. Catherine, 1530

The master, who ran one of the most prolific workshops of the northern Renaissance, derives his name from the series of works depicting half-length female figures behind a writing desk, reading, or playing a musical instrument, that he painted in Antwerp, but which were inspired by the art of Bruges, during the second and third decades of the 1500s.

Title: Saint Catherine

Author: Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1525-1550)

Date: 1530

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: cm 45 x 36

Current location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan