Edgar Degas | Artistic career

Upon his return to France in 1859, Degas moved into a Paris studio large enough to permit him to begin painting The Bellelli Family—an imposing canvas he intended for exhibition in the Salon, although it remained unfinished until 1867.

He also began work on several history paintings: Alexander and Bucephalus and The Daughter of Jephthah in 1859–60; Sémiramis Building Babylon in 1860; and Young Spartans around 1860.

In 1861 Degas visited his childhood friend Paul Valpinçon in Normandy, and made the earliest of his many studies of horses.

He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1865, when the jury accepted his painting Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which attracted little attention.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Impressionist painter

Famed for his sensual charming scenes of pretty women, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.

He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement, nevertheless he ceased to exhibit with the group after 1877.

From the 1880s until well into the twentieth century, he developed a monumental, classically inspired style that influenced such avant-garde giants as Pablo Picasso.

Arthur Hacker | Pre-Raphaelite painter

Arthur Hacker (25 September 1858 - 12 November 1919) was an British classicist painter.

Born in London in 1858, Hacker was the son of Edward Hacker, a line engraver specialising in animal and sporting prints (who was also for many years the official Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kentish Town in the St Pancras registration district, north London).

In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits, and his art was also influenced by his extensive travels in Spain and North Africa.

Pauline Palmer (1867-1938)

Pauline Lennards Palmer was an American artist based in Chicago. She is counted among Impressionism.

Early life

Pauline Lennards was born in McHenry, Illinois, the daughter of Nicholas Lennards, a merchant, and Frances Spanganacher Lennards. Her parents were both immigrants from Prussia; she grew up speaking German as her first language.

She studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago, under William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck and Kenneth Hayes Miller.

She pursued further training in Paris at Académie Colarossi, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and with Paris-based American painter Richard E. Miller.

Leonardo da Vinci | Perché il bianco non è colore..

Trattato della Pittura - Parte seconda | Capitoli 235-258

Il Testo Integrale

Indice

235. Del colore dell'ombra di qualunque corpo.

236. Della prospettiva de' colori ne' luoghi oscuri.

237. Prospettiva de' colori.

238. De' colori.

239. Da che nasce l'azzurro dell'aria.

240. De' colori.

241. De' colori.

242. De' campi delle figure de' corpi dipinti.

243. Perché il bianco non è colore.

244. De' colori.