Artus Wolffort | Baroque painter

Artus Wolffort, Artus Wolffaert or Artus Wolffaerts (1581-1641) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his history paintings depicting religious and mythological scenes.

Wolffort and his work were not well known until the late 1970s and some of his paintings were even classified as early works by Rubens.

His oeuvre was reconstructed from a fully signed work (Esther's Toilet in the Harem of Ahasuerus, original untraced, 10 copies of which one fully signed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London) and various paintings bearing a monogram.

Giorgio Dante, 1982 | Figurative painter

Giorgio Dante is an Italian figurative painter living and working in Rome, Italy.

After graduating in 2006 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Dante distinguished himself as an artist of contemporary revival of classical painting.

His work emphasizes traditional methods and techniques of old masters.

Italian art inspired him to paint since his childhood and influenced his choice to pursue an academic figurative style, focused on 19th century European painting (William Bouguereau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Lord Leighton, John William Waterhouse, Paul Delaroche, Jan Jaques Henner, ecc).

He exhibited in Europe and Usa.

Bernardino Luini | High Renaissance painter

Bernardino Luini - born Bernardino Scapi (1480-1532), was a North Italian painter from Leonardo's circle during the High Renaissance.

Both Luini and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio were said to have worked with Leonardo directly; he was described as having taken "as much from Leonardo as his native roots enabled him to comprehend".

Consequently, many of his works were attributed to Leonardo.

He was known especially for his graceful female figures with elongated eyes, called Luinesque by Vladimir Nabokov.

Juan Carlos Verdial, 1957 | Surrealist painter

Cuban painter Juan Carlos Verdial was born in Havana, Cuba. Graduated from Art Academy of San Alejandro, Havana, Cuba.

He is a graduate of the San Alejandro Academy of Art, the oldest and most prestigious Fine Art school in Cuba, and a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).

His works have been shown in close to 100 solo and group exhibitions across South, Central, and North America, including Chile, Panama, Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, as well as Miami, Boston and New York.

Richard Bergh | Naturalist painter

Sven Richard Bergh (1858–1919) was a Swedish painter, art critic and museum manager. Despite many years in France, he remained unattracted to Impressionism, preferring instead the Naturalism of painters such as Jules Bastien-Lepage. He also rejected the idea of creating landscapes en plein aire.

Both of his parents, Johan Edvard Bergh and Amanda Helander (1825-1888), were artists and, presumably, his first teachers. He began his formal studies with Edvard Perséus, at his private school then, from 1878-1881, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

His first works were scenes from Swedish history, painted in the Academic style.

In 1881, he went to Paris, where he took lessons from Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Colarossi. His first exhibition at the Salon came in 1883 and he completed his studies in 1884.

The following year, he and his friend, Ernst Josephson, became members of the Nordic art colony at Grez-sur-Loing.