Wilhelm von Schadow | Romantic painter

Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow (7 September 1789 - 19 March 1862) was a German Romantic painter.

Biography

He was born in Berlin, the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, who gave him his first lessons in drawing. He then turned to painting, and was instructed by Weitsch.

In 1806-1807 Schadow served as a soldier. In 1810 he traveled with his elder brother Rudolph to Rome where he became one of the leading painters of the Nazarene movement.

Giuseppe Cominetti | Divisionist painter

Giuseppe Cominetti (Salasco, Province of Vercelli, 1882 - Rome, 1930) was an Italian painte.

His brother Gian Maria Cominetti (1884-1961) was a notable writer and screenwriter. He studied till 1898 in the Lyceum Massimo D'Azeglio in Turin.

He received his first training was at the Albertina Academy of Turin, but moved in 1902 to Genoa where he came into contact with Plinio Nomellini and the work of Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen.

Giuseppe Cominetti - I conquistatori del sole

John Singer Sargent | Gassed, 1919

Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a dressing station.

Sargent was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to document the war and visited the Western Front in July 1918 spending time with the Guards Division near Arras, and then with the American Expeditionary Forces near Ypres.

Helena Nelson-Reed | Visionary painter

Helena Nelson-Reed is an American Visionary painter specializing in fine art watercolor, pencil drawings, illustration, private/commercial commissions and portraits.

Born in Seattle, Washington, she was raised in Marin County and Napa Valley, California and today lives in Illinois.

A largely self taught artist whose educational emphasis and degree is in psychology, Nelson-Reed’s primary focus is exploring the collective consciousness and the portrayal of archetypal imagery in the tradition of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell.

Herman Richir | Academic painter

Painter of allegorical and mythological scenes, decorative panels but also lithographer under the pseudonym "Hamner", Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942) was first and foremost a portrait painter appreciated by the high society of the time and to whom we owe in particular several portraits of the Belgian royal family.

Herman Richir was born on November 4th in the Belgian city of Elsene.

First he studied at the Academy of Sint-Joost-ten-Node ltaught by Gustave Biot and Charles Hermans, then he went to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels under the direction of Jean-François Portaels.

Marie Egner | Impressionist painter

Marie Egner (25 August 1850, Bad Radkersburg - 31 March 1940, Vienna) was an Austrian painter**.

She took her first drawing lessons in Graz with Hermann von Königsbrunn, then went to Düsseldorf from 1872-1875, where she studied with Carl Jungheim (1830-1886).

In 1882, she went to Vienna to live with her mother, but spent her summers at the art colony in Plankenberg Castle, near Neulengbach, where she took lessons with Emil Jakob Schindler until 1887.

Gregor Erhart | La Belle Allemande, 1515-1520

This unusual figure represents saint Mary Magdalene as a mystic ascetic. According to legend, the repentant sinner lived a secluded life in the cave of Sainte-Baume, clothed only by her hair.

Every day she was raised up in the sky by angels to hear the heavenly chorus. The statue appeared on the German art market in the 19th century and was purchased by the Louvre in 1902.

Lionello Balestrieri | Beethoven, 1900

In 1899, Lionello Balestrieri** (12 September 1872 - October 24, 1958) painted a canvas depicting Beethoven** (Kreutzer Sonata), which after winning an award** at the 1900 Universal Exposition in Paris and in 1901 in Venice, brought him fame.

The painting depicts a dimly lit garret-like apartment with a strand of listeners along the left wall, each in their own mood, while a violinist plays between them and a furnace.

Karen Dupré | Fashion painter

Karen Dupré, American painter, was born in California. She is a self-taught artist whose first inspiration stemmed from her interest in horses.

This fascination quickly led her to translate the splendor of these animals and other wildlife through drawing.

At age nine, Dupré began working in pastels, which soon progressed into the use of other mediums - primarily acrylic paints.

Since her early years as an artist, Dupré has broadened her repertoire to include landscapes, still life imagery, and figures, while never abandoning the wildlife that first sparked her imagination.

Leonardo da Vinci | Salvator Mundi, 1499

Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World), which has been attributed by some scholars as a work by Leonardo da Vinci** since its rediscovery in 2005. This attribution has been rejected by other specialists.

Rabindranath Tagore | Sonno /Sleep

Antonio Tordesillas, 1960

Nel tuo sonno, al limite dei sogni,

aspetto guardando in silenzio il tuo viso,

come la stella del mattino che appare per prima

alla tua finestra.

Con i miei occhi berrò' il primo sorriso

che, come un germoglio, sboccerà'

sulle tue labbra semiaperte.

Il mio desiderio e' solo questo...

Evgeniy Monahov, 1974 | VideoArt

Evgeniy Monahov è un pittore Russo, laureato presso il Collegio d'Arte di Mosca.

Nel 2001 espone le sue opere nella prestigiosa galleria californiana Richard Thomas.

Da quel momento in poi i suoi quadri hanno iniziato a viaggiare in tutto il mondo.

Il lavoro di Evgeniy si ispira principalmente ai pittori dell’Impressionismo: pennellate rapide e allentate per dare dettagli e “sostanza” ai suoi soggetti.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love Enthroned / Amore sul Trono

Love Enthroned

I marked all kindred Powers the heart finds fair:-

Truth, with awed lips; and Hope, with eyes upcast;

And Fame, whose loud wings fan the ashen Past

To signal-fires, Oblivion's flight to scare;

And Youth, with still some single golden hair

Unto his shoulder clinging, since the last

Embrace wherein two sweet arms held him fast;

Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Love's Testament / Testamento d'amore

Love's Testament

O thou who at Love's hour ecstatically

Unto my heart dost evermore present,

Clothed with his fire, thy heart his testament;

Whom I have neared and felt thy breath to be

The inmost incense of his sanctuary;

Who without speech hast owned him, and, intent

Upon his will, thy life with mine hast blent,

And murmured, “I am thine, thou'rt one with me!”

Dusan Jovanovic, 1949 | Magic Realism painter

Dušan Jovanović is an Serbian painter of portraits and still lifes.

Jovanović was born May 1, 1949 in Belgrade. He has attended many esteemed educational institutes, such as Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, School of Art for Interior Decoration, School Restoration-Painting etc.

He took participation in more than two hundred art exhibitions throughout Europe, including: Show World "My country, my home" (Moscow, Russia, 1965) and Exhibition "Selections 1984" Nation Gallery (Paris, France, 1984).

Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter ⁽¹⁾

Max Liebermann (20 July 1847 - 8 February 1935)🎨 was a German🎨-Jewish painter and printmaker, and one of the leading proponents of Impressionism🎨 in Germany.

The son of a Jewish fabric manufacturer turned banker from Berlin, Liebermann🎨 grew up in an imposing town house alongside the Brandenburg Gate.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Liebermann see:

• Max Liebermann | Impressionist painter🎨

Adam de Coster | A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle

This painting is emblematic of the refined and dramatic nocturnes that form the small catalogue of works by Adam de Coster.

Benedict Nicolson was the first scholar to isolate a corpus of works by this Flemish candlelight painter in a series of publications.

He based this group around Lucas Vorsterman’s engraving after a lost work by de Coster, which depicted tric-trac players and a musician illuminated by two burning candles on a table.

Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Cityscapes

Award winning painter Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan.

After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard.

He works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story.

Dario Campanile, 1948

Born in Rome, Italian painter Dario Campanile started to sketch as a very young child. At the age of six, his talent for art was encouraged with the gift of a small set of watercolors from an uncle, himself a painter.

When he was 14, Campanile was bedridden with a kidney ailment for three months, and his father gave him his first oil paints to cheer him up.

As soon as he began to work with them, there was a sense of familiarity of being able to easily express himself in this medium. This experience influenced him profoundly to continue with his art.

Henry Ryland | Neo-Classical painter

Henry Ryland (1856-1924) was a British painter, book illustrator, decorator and designer.

He was the son of John Benjamin and Elizabeth Ryland and was born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire in 1856.

He studied in London at the South Kensington Art School, and at Heatherley's.

He also studied in Paris under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, and at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Lefebvre.

Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893)

John Atkinson Grimshaw, British painter, was a Victorian-era and Imaginative painter, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes.

Some artists of Grimshaw's period, like Vincent Van Gogh and James Smetham, left letters and documents recording their work and lives.

Grimshaw left behind no letters, journals or papers; scholars and critics have little material on which to base their understanding of his life and career.

Georg Anton Rasmussen | Seascape painter

Georg Anton Rasmussen (1842-1914) was Norwegian artist, known for land-and seascape paintings.

Georg Anton Rasmussen was born in Stavanger in 1842, but studied with the German painter Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905)** in Düsseldorf.

Consequently, several of G.A. Rasmussen’s German subjects originate in the Düsseldorf area, but there are also themes from Berlin to where he moved in 1899.

His landscapes were extremely popular, as G.A. Rasmussen’s eye for colour was more powerful and personal than was normally the case in the Germany of the age.

Quang Ho, 1963 | Still life

Vietnamese-born American painter🎨 and illustrator Quang Ho🎨, was born in Hue, Vietnam, immigrated to the United States in 1975 and is now a U.S. Citizen.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Quang Ho🎨 see Quang Ho, 1963 | Impressionist Figurative painter🎨.

Paul Falconer Poole RA | Genre painter

Paul Falconer Poole RA (1806-1879) was an British** subject and genre painter** born in Bristol.

• Life and work

Though self-taught his fine feeling for colour, poetic sympathy and dramatic power gained Poole a high position among British artists. He exhibited his first work in the Royal Academy at the age of twenty-five, the subject being The Well, a scene in Naples. There was an interval of seven years before he next exhibited his Farewell, Farewell in 1837, which was followed by the Emigrant's Departure, Hermann and Dorothea and By the Waters of Babylon.

Georg Pauli | Symbolist painter

Swedish painter Georg Vilhelm Pauli (2 July 1855 - 28 November 1935) was born in Jönköping.

Pauli studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm in 1871-75 and 1878-79, and studied and worked in France and Italy for several years during the 1870s and 1880s.

He studied naturalist in- and outdoor painting, influenced by Bastien-Lepage.

Louis Janmot | The Lyon School of Art

Anne-François-Louis Janmot (1814-1892) was a French painter and poet.

Early years

Janmot was born in Lyon, France of Catholic parents who were deeply religious. He was extremely moved by the death of his brother in 1823 and his sisters in 1829.

He became a student at the Royal College of Lyon where he met Frederic Ozanam and other followers of his philosophy professor, Abbe Noirot.

In 1831 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and a year later, he won the highest honor, the Golden Laurel.

Vilhelm Hammershøi | Interior / Portrait painter

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a Danish painter. He is known for his poetic, subdued portraits and interiors.

In 1997, Denmark issued a postage stamp in his honour.

Life

Vilhelm Hammershøi was born iin Copenhagen, Denmark.

The son of a well-to-do merchant, Christian Hammershøi, and his wife, Frederikke (née Rentzmann), Hammershøi studied drawing from the age of eight with Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, as well as painting with Vilhelm Kyhn, before embarking on studies with Frederik Vermehren and others at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret | Le pardon en Bretagne, 1886

From: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Like many of his contemporaries, Dagnan-Bouveret** was fascinated by the religious customs of Brittany in northern France.

In this scene, penitents wearing traditional regional dress proceed solemnly around a church; some go barefoot or kneel to demonstrate remorse.

Annotated drawings on the reverse of the canvas indicate that the painter’s wife posed for the young woman in the foreground; the mother of an artist friend appears at left.

Arnold Bocklin | Stile pittorico

Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) è stato un pittore, disegnatore, scultore e grafico Svizzero, nonché uno dei principali esponenti del simbolismo tedesco.

Dalla Svizzera all'Italia

Arnold Böcklin nacque il 16 ottobre 1827 a Basilea, figlio di Christian Friedrich Böcklin, noto mercante della seta nativo di Sciaffusa, e di Ursula Lipp, celebre discendente di una famiglia che annoverava tra i propri avi Johann Jacob Lippe e Hans Holbein il Giovane.

Inizialmente destinato a seguire le orme paterne, grazie all'intercessione della madre e del poeta Wilhelm Wackernagel (professore al ginnasio e all'università di Basilea) il giovane Arnold fu in grado di assecondare la sua più autentica vocazione artistica, andando nel 1845 a studiare all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Düsseldorf.

Meredith Frampton | Art Deco painter

George Vernon Meredith Frampton RA (17 March 1894 - 16 September 1984) was a British painter and etcher, successful as a portraitist in the 1920s.

His artistic career was short and his output limited because his eyesight began to fail in the 1950s, but his work is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery and Imperial War Museum.

Mike Ludlow | Pin-up illustrator

Mike Ludlow (1921-2010), American illustrator, was born in 1921 and grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended the Art Students League, where he studied with William McNulty.

His first commercial art assignment, for the Sunday supplement of the Journal American, came in 1948.

From the beginning, Ludlow has specialized in glamorous subjects and made beautiful women his trademark.

Loui Jover, 1967 | Vintage art in Black and White

Australian painter Loui Jover was born in a small European town at what he calls a small house with a green door. He immigrated to Australia from Europe with his parents at a young age. Loui began drawing as a young child and never stopped chasing his artistic dream throughout his youthful years when most children discard artistic endeavors to pursue other careers.

He began his studies in commercial and graphic art in 1980 through a correspondence course from Melbourne Art Institute. He also holds an Advanced Certificate in Visual Communication that he formally attained in 1994.

He joined the army in 1989 where he worked as an illustrator reprographic which is was basically a regimental photographer and illustrator for the military. When he left the army, Loui continued drawing as a self-represented artist up to now.

Cima da Conegliano | Early Renaissance painter

Giovanni Battista Cima, also called Cima da Conegliano (c. 1459 - c. 1517), was an Italian** Renaissance painter, who mostly worked in Venice.

He can be considered part of the Venetian school, though he was also influenced by Antonello da Messina, in the emphasis he gives to landscape backgrounds and the tranquil atmosphere of his works.

Once formed his style did not change greatly. He mostly painted religious subjects, often on a small scale for homes rather than churches, but also a few, mostly small, mythological ones.

Caspar David Friedrich | Two Men Contemplating the Moon, 1825-30

Title: Two Men Contemplating the Moon.

Artist: Caspar David Friedrich** (German, Greifswald 1774-1840 Dresden).

Date: ca. 1825-30.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (34.9 x 43.8 cm).

Classification: Paintings.

Current location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Credit Line: Wrightsman Fund, 2000.

Accession Number: 2000.51.

Michael de Bono, 1983 | Figurative realism painter

Welsh painter Michael de Bono is a self taught painter living and working in Wales.

He developed his painting ability slowly through trial and error in dependence upon an early practice of drawing.

His predilection for the naturalism of the Italian High Renaissance and the Caravaggisti, which he holds in particular esteem, was and remains a significant force.

Carl Gustav Carus | Romantic painter

Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 - 28 July 1869) was a German** physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe**, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist, a psychologist, and a landscape painter who studied under Caspar David Friedrich**.

James Tissot | The Prodigal Son in Modern Life | Series

In 1880, French painter and illustrator Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) began an important series portraying the subject of the Prodigal Son, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes.

The series formed a centre-piece of Tissot's one man exhibition at the Dudley Gallery in London in 1882 and later shown at the Palais de L'Industrie in Paris, in 1883.

James Tissot | The Prodigal Son in Modern Life | The Departure, 1882

Bernard Cathelin (1919-2004) | School of Paris

Bernard Cathelin was a French painter born in Paris and a member of the School of Paris which included Picasso, Chagall, Matisse, Dufy and many others including Maurice Brianchon, Cathelin's teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.

Although he received critical acclaim as early as 1950, Cathelin was not able to live solely from his painting until 1955.

Since that time Cathelin has received steadily increasing recognition and has been featured in over 50 exhibitions worldwide.

Throughout his life, he maintained a deep-rooted love for his country and especially for the Drôme, where his mother came from.

Picasso and Victor Hugo | Look not at the face, young girl..

Non guardare il volto

fanciulla, guarda il cuore.

Il cuore di un bel giovane è spesso deforme.

Ci sono cuori in cui l'amore non si conserva.

Fanciulla, l'abete non è bello,

non è bello come il pioppo,

ma d'inverno mantiene le foglie.

Henderson Cisz, 1960 | Cityscape painter

Henderson Cisz is a Brazilian painter** known for his inspirational paintings that feature scenes from the world’s most beautiful cities - London, New York, Paris and Venice.

Henderson Cisz was born in Brazil and grew up in a small village in Parana State.
Cisz had talent from a very young age, but considered it only a hobby. By the time he finished school, he entered a position as a banker.

Arnold Bocklin | Symbolist painter

Arnold Böcklin, (October 16, 1827, Basel, Switzerland - January 16, 1901, Fiesole, Italy), painter whose moody landscapes and sinister allegories greatly influenced late 19th-century German artists and presaged the symbolism of the 20th-century Metaphysical and Surrealist artists.

Although he studied and worked throughout much of northern Europe - Düsseldorf, Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris - Böcklin found his real inspiration in the landscape of Italy, where he returned from time to time and where the last years of his life were spent.

Maxwell Whitmore | Fashion painter / Illustrator

Maxwell Coburn Whitmore, Jr. (1913-1988) was an American painter, magazine illustrator and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other national brands.

He additionally became known as a race-car designer.

Whitmore was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1978.

Jean-François Millet | Pittore Realista

Jean-François Millet (Gréville-Hague, 4 ottobre 1814 – Barbizon, 20 gennaio 1875) è stato un pittore Francese, considerato uno dei maggiori esponenti del Realismo.

Biografia

Jean-François Millet nacque il 4 ottobre 1814 a Gréville-Hague, in Normandia, primogenito di Jean-Louis-Nicolas ed Aimée-Henriette-Adélaïde Henry Millet, entrambi poveri contadini. Millet iniziò la sua precoce ma irregolare formazione su iniziativa dei genitori, che lo affidarono ad alcuni precettori privati, per poi proseguire gli studi a Cherbourg, dove giunse nel 1833 a studiare pittura sotto la guida del ritrattista Paul Dumouchel, senza per questo trascurare di aiutare la famiglia nel duro lavoro dei campi.

Robert Papp | Romantic Illustrator

Because Robert Papp's childhood drawings of his favorite superheros were such a pleasure, it was only natural that he would wind up an illustrator. Nowadays, his award-winning artwork appears on book covers and in magazines instead of on the refrigerator. He has produced hundreds of cover illustrations for major publishers across the United States. Robert lives in historic Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Arnold Böcklin | Modern Visionary / Symbolist painter

From: Musée d'Orsay

A major artist of the late 19th century, the Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin (1827-1901) remains little-known in France, where his art was often reduced to the fascinating icon of only one of his many masterpieces, The Isle of the Dead.

Rediscovered in the 1910s by surrealist painters - Giorgio de Chirico and Max Ernst in particular - who found a powerful inspiration in his fantastic and iconoclastic vision of mythology.

Pietro Paolini | Baroque painter

Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (3 June 1603 - 12 April 1681) was an Italian painter** of the Baroque period**. Working in Rome, Venice and finally his native Lucca, he was a follower of Caravaggio** to whose work he responded in a very personal manner. He founded an Academy in his hometown, which formed the next generation of painters of Lucca.

• Life

Pietro Paolini was born in Lucca, as the youngest son of Tommaso Paolini and Ginevra Raffaelli. His family was well-off as his mother was a descendant of a prominent Lucchese family.

Paolini‘s father sent his son to Rome to the workshop of Angelo Caroselli when he was 16 years old.

Faustino Martin Gonzalez | Watercolour painter

Faustino Martin Gonzalez is an Spanish** watercolor painter. He lives in Avilés, a city in Principality of Asturias, Spain.

Martin Faustino Gonzalez feels a special passion for the image of the transition states of nature: the change of the seasons or the time of day. In his paintings, lots of light, air, dominated by low-key calm colors. This watercolor painting in the classic sense: the overlapping colors, a celebration of emotions and moods.

Rembrandt | Portrait drawing

• "Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses".

• "I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art".

Rembrandt | Portraits / Self-Portraits

Because of his empathy for the human condition, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization".

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was a Dutch painter and etcher.

He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutch history.

His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age, when Dutch Golden Age painting, although in many ways antithetical to the Baroque style that dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative.

Rembrandt: "Senza l'atmosfera un dipinto non è nulla"

• "Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know".

• "Prova a mettere bene in pratica quello che già sai; così facendo sarai sempre in tempo, e scoprirai le cose nascoste che ora stai cercando. Metti in pratica quello che sai, e ciò ti aiuterà a rendere chiaro ciò che ora non conosci".