Andrea del Verròcchio | The Teacher of Leonardo da Vinci

Andrea del Verrocchio (born 1435, Florence - died 1488, Venice), 15th-century Florentine sculptor and painter and the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci.

His equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni, erected in Venice in 1496, is particularly important.

The only surviving painting that according to documentary proof should be by Verrocchio, an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints in the Donato de’ Medici Chapel of the cathedral at Pistoia, was not completed by the master himself.

Emerico Imre Tóth, 1970 | Abstract painter

Emerico Imre Tóth is an Hungarian self-taught painter.

His art is abstract, realistic, modern, sometime surreal, created in his own style and vision.

"I have been working with art since 1992, but I have been interested in creation since childhood.

My restless imagination drove me down this path.

At first, I only started with airbrush painting as a hobby. By decorating cars, motorbikes, and related accessories.

This was complemented by unique advertising boards, then artistic background decorations, figures, and form-making for the entertainment industry.

Nicola Simbari (1927-2012)

Italian painter Nicola Simbari was born in San Lucido, Calabria and this beautiful area greatly impacted his Mediterranean paintings: the blues of the ocean and sky and the bright hues of the flowers.

His family moved to Rome when he was young and his father worked there as a Vatican architect.

Rome's art masterpieces so impressed Simbari that, by age 13, he decided to study art and enrolled at the Accademia delle Belle Arti. He opened his first studio in Rome at 22 years of age. Simbari's early works featured scenes from his childhood - gypsies, cafes, fishing villages and the Italian countryside.

Bernardino Licinio | High Renaissance painter

Bernardino Licinio (1489-1565) was a painter during the Italian High Renaissance, creating portraits and religious works.

He was born in Bergamo in the town of Lombardy.

It is said that he may have trained in the studio of Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), a prominent Venetian painter of the Bellini family.

Licinio stayed close to the artistic developments of the Venetian school of painting.

Brazilian Art History and Sitemap

José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior | Realist Genre painter

The creation of art in the geographic area now known as Brazil begins with the earliest records of its human habitation.

The original inhabitants of the land, pre-Columbian Indian peoples, produced various forms of art; specific cultures like the Marajoara left sophisticated painted pottery.