Christian Dior / René Gruau | Fashion Quotes

René Gruau (Italian Fashion illustrator, 1909-2004)

• "After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world".
• "Dopo le donne i fiori sono la cosa più bella che Dio ha donato al mondo".
• "Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style".
• "Il profumo è un segno di identità femminile e il tocco finale del suo stile".

Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574)

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, best known for his "Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects", considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.

He was also the first to use the term "Renaissance" in print.

Vasari enjoyed high repute during his lifetime and amassed a considerable fortune.

Russian Art History and Sitemap

Early Russian painting is represented in icons and vibrant frescos.

In the early 15th century, the master icon painter Andrei Rublev created some of Russia's most treasured religious art.

The Russian Academy of Arts, which was established in 1757, to train Russian artists, brought Western techniques of secular painting to Russia.

In the 18th century, academicians Ivan Argunov, Dmitry Levitzky, Vladimir Borovikovsky became influential.

Lesser Ury (1861-1931) | Impressionist painter

Lesser Ury was an German Impressionist painter and printmaker, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin.

In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887.

David Cheifetz, 1981 | Figurative / Still Life painter

American painter David Andrew Nishita Cheifetz was born in the Pacific Northwest. A former architect, David started learning to paint with oils in the fall of 2007 while attending the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, and in 2009 made the transition to full-time artist. David currently lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife, Yasmine.