Lisa Noonis, 1963 | Abstract / Palette knife painter

Lisa Noonis is a Maine-based painter** known for her lively explorations of color, form, and space. Constantly pushing the boundaries of representation, Noonis captures the essence of objects, figures, and places with an ever-evolving, abstract style that embraces color, shape and line.

Jason deCaires Taylor, 1974 | Underwater sculptor

Jason deCaires Tayloris a British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park – the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park - and underwater museum.

He is best known for installing site-specific underwater sculptures which develop into artificial coral reefsintegrating his skills as a sculptor, marine conservationist, underwater photographer and scuba diving instructor.

His works in Grenada have been listed among the Top 25 Wonders of the World by National Geographic.

His most ambitious projects to date are the creation of the world's largest underwater sculpture museum, the Cancún Underwater Museum, situated off the coast between Cancún and Isla Mujeres, Mexico, and Ocean Atlas (2014), a 5-metre tall, 60-ton sculpture off the Bahamas.

Tribuna of the Uffizi | The first museum of the Modern Age

In the Eighties of the 16th century, the Grand Duke Francesco I and his friend and collaborator, the architect Bernardo Buontalenti, started the project of the Tribuna.

It is the most important room at the first floor of the Uffizi palace, which ground floor was - at that time - occupied by the Florentine magistrates.

The Tribuna was the first nucleus of the Uffizi Gallery: it is a space conceived and realized to display to the public artworks considered the most precious of the Medici collection.

Marble Roman copy after a Greek original

Carlo Carrà | Futurist painter

Carlo Carrà (1881-1966) was a leading figure of the Futurist movement that flourished in Italy during the beginning of the 20th century.

In addition to his many paintings, he wrote a number of books concerning art.

He taught for many years in the city of Milan.

Carrà was born in Quargnento, near Alessandria, Piedmont.

At the age of 12 he left home in order to work as a mural decorator.

Arshile Gorky | Abstract Expressionist painter

Arshile Gorky original name Vosdanik Adoian (born April 15, 1904, Khorkom, Van, Turkish Armenia [now in Turkey]-died July 21, 1948, Sherman, Connecticut, U.S.), American painter, important as the direct link between the European Surrealist painters and the painters of the American Abstract Expressionist movement.

Gorky’s early life was disrupted when his father abandoned Turkey, his wife, and his family in order to avoid service in the Turkish army. The rest of the family soon fled to Armenia to escape Turkish persecution and were subsequently dispersed.