Victoria Selbach, 1960 | Figurative painter

American painter Victoria Selbach in her youth, studied drawing and pastel at the Carnegie Mellon Museum of Pittsburgh and continued on to art classes at Carnegie Mellon University.

Her years at CMU provided a range of course work including drawing from live models and studying anatomy at the Pitt Medical School Morgue.

Victoria moved to New York City and graduated from Parsons School of Design.

While making New York her home Victoria has traveled extensively and is indebted to all the amazing faces and startling visual environments that have fascinated and inspired her.

Tracey Harris, 1970 | Realist painter

Tracey Harris is a Contemporary Realist painter specializing in figurative and still life oil paintings. She is an award winning artist who's artworks are collected nationally and internationally.

Education:

1995 - Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, England;

1992 - Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

Experience: - Tracey Harris is an emerging artist specializing in contemporary representational painting. She has exhibited internationally and nationally winning numerous awards.

At a recent solo exhibition an art dealer, Timothy Ward, of Ward and Ward, wrote of Harris’ work: “Few modern paintings effectively pay homage to traditional aesthetic choices such as chiaroscuro.

Alena Plihal | Abstract painter

The canadian painter Alena Plihal was born in Czech Republic and lived in Quebec since 1989. With a degree in plastic arts at UQAM, she continued her training in live model workshops of abstract painting workshops.

The combination of charcoal, pigment, acrylic and oils gives to Alena an extraordinary freedom of expression.

The human body is presented alone and sometimes in loving couple and try to fix the trace of the body, especially speaking of his desire to exist forever and transcend death.

15th century Artists | Sitemap

At the end of the Middle Ages, art across Europe was dominated by a decorative and refined manner known as the International Style.

Ornate, with brilliant color and gilding, it reflected courtly tastes and continued, for some time, to attract patrons in Milan, Ferrara, and other aristocratic Italian cities, even as more naturalistic Renaissance styles began to take root elsewhere.

By the mid-1400s, in Florence especially, both artists and patrons had begun to embrace new subjects and approaches.

Pio Fedi | Love story of Dionora and Ippolito

Ancient Art | Sitemap

Ancient Art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

The art of pre-literate societies is normally referred to as prehistoric art and is not covered here.

Although some pre-Columbian cultures developed writing during the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, on grounds of dating these are covered at pre-Columbian art and articles such as Maya art, Aztec art, and Olmec art.

Ancient Rome / La Civiltà romana