Ricardo Celma, 1975 | Art Nouveau style painter

Ricardo Celma was born in Buenos Aires. His artistic vocation showed up at the early age of 5 when he started attending to an art workshop and he continued to do so for 20 years.

At the end of high school he entered the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, where he obtained the title of national professor of drawing and painting, with excellent grades.

And a few years later, he received a degree, Bachelor of Visual Arts at the National University of Art (UNA).

His works are part of permanent museum´s collections and also private collections around the world.

Malcolm T. Liepke, 1953 | Figurative painter

Malcolm T. Liepke, American painter, was born and raised in Minneapolis. As a student he hungered for 'classical' training rather than the 'conceptual' ideas being taught. In a bold move, he left the Art Center College in Los Angeles and went to New York.

That Malcolm Liepke’s paintings are arrestingly beautiful is evident, but they are much more.

Through pattern, colour and bravura brushwork, Liepke delves deeply into profound areas of human nature. He has exhibited extensively internationally enjoying phenomenal success with a string of sell out exhibitions.

He is an experienced, mid-career painter who has exhibited all over the world; his work is represented in numerous private and public collections.

Carlo Maratta (1625-1713) | Baroque painter

Carlo Maratta, Maratta also spelled Maratti, (born May 15, 1625, Camerano, Papal States [Italy]- died Dec. 15, 1713, Rome), one of the leading painters of the Roman school in the later 17th century and one of the last great masters of Baroque🎨 classicism.

His final works offer an early example of “arcadian good taste” (named for the Academy of Arcadians, of which he was a member), a style that was to dominate Roman art for the first half of the 18th century.

Rafal Olbinski, 1943 | Surrealist painter

Rafał Olbiński is a Polish-born illustrator, painter and educator, living in the United States.

Olbiński graduated from the architecture program of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1969.

Olbiński immigrated to the United States in 1981, where he soon established himself as a prominent painter, illustrator and designer.

Boccaccio Boccaccino (1467-1525) | Early Renaissance painter

Boccaccio Boccaccino was a painter of the early Italian Renaissance🎨, belonging to the Emilian school. He is profiled in Vasari's🎨 "Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori" (or, in English, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects).

He was born in Ferrara and studied there, probably under Domenico Panetti.

Few facts of his life are known.

His principal artistic activity was in Venice, Ferrara, and especially in Cremona, where he founded a school in which Garofalo🎨 was a pupil.