Pontormo | Mannerist painter

Jacopo da Pontormo, original name Jacopo Carrucci (born May 24, 1494, Pontormo, near Empoli, Republic of Florence (Italy)-buried Jan. 2, 1557, Florence) Florentine painter who broke away from High Renaissance classicism to create a more personal, expressive style that is sometimes classified as early Mannerism.

Pontormo was the son of Bartolommeo Carrucci, a painter. According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, he was apprenticed to Leonardo da Vinci and afterward to Mariotto Albertinelli and Piero di Cosimo.

Johan Barthold Jongkind | Impressionist painter

Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891) painter and printmaker whose small, informal landscapes continued the tradition of the Dutch landscapists while also stimulating the development of Impressionism.

Jongkind first studied under local landscape painters at The Hague.

In 1846 he moved to Paris and worked under the genre painter Eugène Isabey and François Picot.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: "La vita è un mazzo di fiori rossi"

"• "What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story".

• "La vita è un mazzo di fiori rossi".

Carlo Crivelli | Polyptych of Montefiore dell'Aso, 1471

Carlo Crivelli, born in Venice 1435 and died in Ascoli Piceno, Marche 1495, is one of the most important, but overlooked painters of the Early Italian Renaissance.

One of Carlo Crivelli's finest works of art is the Montefiore Triptych altarpiece preserved in the museum complex of San Francesco in Montefiore dell'Aso, province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy.

The six-panel Triptych was commissioned by a descendant of Gentile Partino to embellish the Church of San Francesco in Montefiore dell'Aso.

Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor / painter

"The bronze gives me an opportunity to mold the sense of life into an everlasting form.

From the force of a muscle in motion to a tender human emotion expressed.

That along with the abstract quality of composition is what inspires me" - Vala Ola.