I Violini di Chagall

La felicità non è felicità senza una capra che suona il violino, scriveva Marc Chagall 1887-1985, il poeta con ali da pittore, secondo la definizione dello scrittore statunitense Henry Miller (1891-1980).

L'interesse di Chagall per la musica risale al periodo dell'infanzia ed è connesso ai riti della comunità ebraico-chassidica di Vitebsk, di cui la sua famiglia faceva parte con profonda devozione.

Francesco Bachiacca | Renaissance painter

A Florentine painter and draughtsman Francesco Ubertini (1494-1557), alias Bachiacca is chiefly recognized as an artist who helped evolve the style of Mannerism.

He is said to have studied with Umbrian painter, Pietro Perugino (1446-1524) and also collaborated with other artists of the time such as Franciabigio (1482-1525) and Pontormo (1494-1557).

Pauline Gagnon, 1955 | Enigmatic eyes

Pauline Gagnon is originally from Quebec Canada, but she has travelled extensively throughout Asia, thus influencing her artistic style.

Although she focuses mainly on painting today, she has been very versatile in her interest, studying silkscreen, steel sculpture, jewelry and theater in Montreal; and stone sculpture in Italy.

As to her painting, after spending two decades in the nonfigurative style, she has adopted the portrait as the major genre of her work. The artist has had over 40 exhibitions in various international continents.

Jack Vettriano | Romantic Figurative painter

Born in Fife, Scotland, Jack Vettriano (1951-2025) left school at sixteen to become a mining engineer.

For his twenty-first birthday, a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his spare time teaching himself to paint.

In 1989, he submitted two paintings to the Royal Scottish Academy’s annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo | Mannerist painter

The bizarre works of Giuseppe Arcimboldo🎨, especially his multiple images, were rediscovered in the early 20th century by Surrealist artists🎨 like Salvador Dali🎨.

Arcimboldo🎨 was born in Milan in 1527, the son of Biagio, a painter who did work for the office of the Fabbrica in the Duomo. Arcimboldo was commissioned to do stained glass window designs beginning in 1549, including the Stories of St. Catherine of Alexandria vitrage at the Duomo.
In 1556 he worked with Giuseppe Meda on frescoes for the Cathedral of Monza.
In 1558, he drew the cartoon for a large tapestry of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, which still hangs in the Como Cathedral today.