Frans Hals | Dutch Golden Age painter

From: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The celebrated portraitist and genre painter Frans Hals (1582-1666) has been placed second only to Rembrandt and, during the past hundred years, to Vermeer in the pantheon of great Dutch painters of the Golden Age.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, Hals was actually the most admired artist in some quarters - especially in Paris, since Vermeer’s small oeuvre was still only beginning to be defined, and Hals' bourgeois subjects, his often colorful palette, and above all his bold brushwork became more inspiring to Realist and Impressionist painters than was the venerable model of Rembrandt.

Gustave Loiseau (1865-1935)

Gustave Loiseau nasce a Parigi il 3 ottobre 1865; sarebbe diventato uno dei più importanti pittori post-impressionisti.

Dopo il servizio militare e dopo aver lavorato per l'azienda di famiglia, Loiseau visitò Pont Aven nel 1890, dove lavorò sotto la guida di Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), dopo il ritorno di quest'ultimo dalla sua prima visita a Tahiti.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Sonnet X | The Portrait

O Lord of all compassionate control,

O Love! let this my lady's picture glow

⁠Under my hand to praise her name, and show

Even of her inner self the perfect whole:

That he who seeks her beauty's furthest goal,

⁠Beyond the light that the sweet glances throw

Giovanni Bellini | High Renaissance painter

Italian painter Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) was the founder of the Venetian school of painting and raised Venice to a center of Renaissance art that rivaled Florence and Rome. He brought to painting a new degree of realism, a new wealth of subject matter, and a new sensuousness in form and color.

Perhaps more than any other, Giovanni Bellini [Giambellino] was an artist who passed through different periods and cultural revolutions.

He, before Leonardo, was the great inventor of the representation of sentiment and nature, painting works of extraordinary poetry, landscapes that brought together everything that had been seen until then in Italy and Europe, with the human figure totally immersed in the surrounding space.

Botticelli | Venus and the Three Graces..

Artist: Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510).

Title: Venus and the Three Graces Presenting Gifts to a Young Woman, also known as Giovanna degli Albizzi Receiving a Gift of Flowers from Venus.

Year: 1483-1486.

Type: Fresco, detached and mounted on canvas.

Dimensions: 211 cm × 283 cm (83 in × 111 in).

Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris.