Hermann Corrodi | Italian ruins at the nightfall

Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (July 1844 - 30 January 1905) was an Italian painter** of landscapes and orientalist scenes
Corrodi was born in Frascati (an alternate source lists his birthplace as Zurich) and lived for many years in Rome. Corrodi studied at the Academy of St Luke under his father, Salomon Corrodi (1810-1892) and in Paris (1872).
Corrodi received commissions for history paintings from the British royal family. He was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt, Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.

He is the brother of Arnold Corrodi. Originally a landscape painter in the academic style, much of his work is also typical of the Orientalism style of the 19th century.

In 1893 he was knighted as an Academic of Merit by the Academy of St Luke, where he had been a professor. He died in Rome on 30 January 1905.

Corrodi's work is in the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, Qatar National Museum and Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

Franz Von Stuck | Symbolist painter

Franz Stuck (February 23, 1863 - August 30, 1928) was a German painter🎨, sculptor, printmaker, and architect.

In 1906, Stuck was awarded🎨 the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown and was henceforth known as Franz Ritter von Stuck.

• Life and career

Born at Tettenweis near Passau, Stuck displayed an affinity for drawing and caricature from an early age. To begin his artistic education he relocated in 1878 to Munich, where he would settle for life.

From 1881-1885 Stuck attended the Munich Academy.

Benedetto Luti | Baroque painter

Benedetto Luti (17 November 1666 - 17 June 1724) was an Italian painter.

In 1691, he moved to Rome, where he was patronized by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, an enthusiast of Luti's pastel portraiture.

Luti was one of the first artists to work in pastels as the final composition as opposed to initial studies for paintings or frescoes.

He also worked in oils and painted frescoes, including for the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano.

Luti was also a successful art dealer and ran a school of drawing; among his pupils were Giovanni Domenico Piastrini, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Claude Arnulphy, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, William Kent, Charles-André van Loo, Gaetano Sardi, Agostino Ratti, Pietro Bianchi and Placido Costanzi.

Knighting

In 1720, he was knighted in the Academy of St Luke of Rome and elected Principe.

The appointment was not without controversy, since some:

"could not find anything (of Luti's) worthy of memory for the benefit of the arts. Pascoli's of account Luti, found him a deep intellect, and even more knowledgeable of the works that he draws, although ... because he knew too much and was never satisfied, he oftentimes recycled thoughts and figures: he did not make friends with anyone, and for this reason, when was elected Prince of the Academy, there was not much applause".

The next year he dedicated himself to painting frescoes the cupola of the Church of Santi Luca e Martina in Rome. | © Wikipedia

Benedetto Luti (1666-1724) è stato un pittore Italiano.

Nato a Firenze, Benedetto Luti si formò artisticamente nella città natale presso lo studio del Gabbiani spinto dal padre Jacopo.

Dopo il primo periodo di apprendistato fiorentino, Luti si trasferì a Roma nel 1691, grazie all'aiuto di Cosimo III de' Medici, che ne apprezzava le qualità di ritrattista a pastello.

A Roma Luti, dove poté giovarsi dei consigli di Ciro Ferri, divenne, insieme a Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, uno dei più prestigiosi artisti della corrente classicista del XVIII secolo, derivata dagli insegnamenti di Carlo Maratta e Francesco Trevisani, ma fu anche collezionista e mercante d'arte.

Autore spesso di pastelli o di opere di piccolo formato, Luti si cimentò solo in pochi casi in imprese di ampio respiro: basti citare la decorazione, con l'apoteosi di Martino V, della sala del Trono di Palazzo Colonna, la tela con San Carlo Borromeo e gli appestati della galleria di Schlessheim e la Vestizione di San Ranieri per il Duomo di Pisa, 1712.

Una delle sue opere migliori è la tela ovale con il Profeta Isaia (1718) nella navata della Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, appartenente al ciclo di lavori promossi da papa Clemente XI.

Nella chiesa del Crocifisso di Pontedera è presente una sua tela con La madonna del Rosario.

Fu insegnante di disegno nell'Accademia di Francia di Palazzo Mancini.

Tra gli allievi della sua celebrata scuola di disegno vanno ricordati alcuni artisti di primo piano come Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Giovanni Antonio Grecolini e Charles-André van Loo.

Fu anche membro dell'Accademia di San Luca che diresse nel 1720.

Benedetto Luti, divenuto con il tempo molto apprezzato anche all'estero, dipinse «molti anni per la Francia, per l'Inghilterra, e per la Germania» come afferma lo storico perugino Lione Pascoli nel suo Vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti moderni. | © Wikipedia

Francesco Furini | Baroque Era painter

Francesco Furini (1600-1646) was an Italian painter🎨 of Florence, known for working in the Baroque style🎨 and Mannerist style of Florence.

His early training was by Matteo Rosselli - other pupils include Lorenzo Lippi and Baldassare Franceschini, though Furini is also described as influenced by Domenico Passignano and Giovanni Biliverti.

He befriended Giovanni da San Giovanni. Traveling to Rome in 1619, he also would have been exposed to the influence of Caravaggio🎨 and his followers.

Tomás Taure Alonso, 1944 | Figurative painter

Tomás Taure Alonso is a self-taught Spanish painter🎨 who works in a figurative style.

By profession, he is a doctor and surgeon.

Since 2000, he has been studying in the studio of painter Roberto Fuentes.

Taure uses an agile brushstroke to present the human figure, especially the feminine form and thus shows off his virtuosity with color and form.

His oil paintings give the feeling of being unfinished, his intention being that the viewer finish the painting conceptually.

His artworks are found in private collections in Spain, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Mexico.

Maria Jose Aguilar,1964 | Symbolic Realism painter

Maria José Aguilar was born in the city of Sevilla, in the centre’s San Lorenzo district.

she spent her childhood and early adolescence among her native city, the bay of Cadiz and the Jaén mountains.

From early on she showed artistic leanings and gifts fed by appropriate surroundings. She grew up with a passion for the great spanish masters, especially Velázquez, Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal, etc.

Antonio Fuertes (1940-1988)

Antonio Fuertes, born in Madrid, is a self-taught painter. He worked in a shop advertising, engaged on the facades of cinemas and theaters in Madrid. In his works often present with Oriental theme Arabic.

He paints men and women in Moroccan landscapes or the Alhambra in Granada in the background.

His first exhibition was held in Toledo in 1982 and a year later participated in the same city, in a thematic exhibition at the Museum Sephardic Jewish.

Laimonas Šmergelis, 1972 | Surrealist painter

Born in Utena, Lithuania.

Utena Children Arts School, 1985.

1989 repeatedly graduated from Utena Children Arts School.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Bachelor Degree in Arts and Crafts, 1995.

Siauliai Pedagogical University, Master’s Degree in Humanitarian Sciences, Fine Arts Studies, 1997. Worked as arts teacher in a primary school. Since 2003 organizes courses in Utena Region Association for Disabled.Organized about 20 personal exhibitions. Since 1990 participates in group exhibitions, about 40 exhibitions.

Albert Edelfelt | Pittore naturalista

Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt (Porvoo, 1854-1905) è considerato uno degli artisti più importanti dell'Età d'Oro dell'arte Finlandese.

Ha vissuto nel Granducato di Finlandia e ha reso visibile la cultura Finlandese all'estero, prima che la Finlandia ottenesse la piena indipendenza.

Edelfelt nacque nel 1854 a Porvoo, figlio dei finlandesi di lingua svedese Carl Albert Edelfelt (1818-1869), un architetto, e di Alexandra Edelfelt, nata Brandt (1833-1901).

Tom Roberts | Impressionist painter

Tom Roberts, byname of Thomas William Roberts, (born March 9, 1856, Dorchester, Dorset, England - died September 14, 1931, Kallista, Victoria, Australia), painter who introduced Impressionism to Australia🎨.

Arriving in Melbourne at age 13, Roberts worked as a photographer, supplementing his meagre earnings with paintings produced as an evening art student.

In 1881 he went to England to study at the Royal Academy in London and toured Spain and France, where he was exposed to Impressionism.

Henri Le Sidaner's 157th Birthday

French painter🎨 Henri Eugène Augustin Le Sidaner (1862-1939) was born 157 years ago on this day - August 7th 1862, into a French family, in Port Louis, Mauritius.

He studied under Alexandre Cabanel🎨 until 1885 and was introduced to the work of Edouard Manet🎨 who influenced Le Sidaner’s artistic development.

Henri Le Sidaner was one such individual: a contemporary of the Post-Impressionists who painted in dots but was not a Pointillist🎨; revelled in complementary colours but was not a Fauve; and drew a veil of dreams over reality but was not a Symbolist🎨, or only briefly.

He was, as his friend the critic Gabriel Mourey described him, "a sort of mystic who has no faith".

Walter Ernest Webster (British, 1878-1959)

Walter Ernest Webster RI ROI RP (17 November 1877 - 30 April 1959) was a British figure and portrait painter. He also worked as an illustrator.

Webster was born on 17 November 1877.

His parents were Robert Walter Waithman Webster (born c. 1853), a salesman, and Mary Lowe (born c. 1856), the daughter of bookkeeper Edwin Lowe.

He was baptised in Manchester Church of England Cathedral on 10 January 1878.

Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) | Surrealist painter

Paul Delvaux (23 September 1897 - 20 July 1994) was a Belgian painter🎨 noted for his dream-like scenes of women, classical architecture, trains and train stations, and skeletons, often in combination.

He is often considered a surrealist, although he only briefly identified with the Surrealist movement🎨.

He was influenced by the works of Giorgio de Chirico🎨.

Hjalmar Munsterhjelm | Moonlight paintings

Magnus Hjalmar Munsterhjelm (19 October 1840, Tuulos - 2 April 1905, Helsinki) was a Finnish landscape painter.

Munsterhjelm was born at Toivoniemi Manor of Tuulos, Finland.

He was the son of Gustaf Riggert Munsterhjelm (1806-1872) and his wife and Mathilda Charlotta Eleonora von Essen (1818-1895).

His father first sent him to the Turku Maritime School.

In the early 1860s, he studied art at Düsseldorf with Werner Holmberg (1830-1860) and Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905) and at Karlsruhe under Hans Gude.

Jaroslav Seifert / Vladimir Volegov: "Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci"

Prima che asciughino quei due o tre baci

sulla fronte

e qui e lí,

ti chinerai per bere

acqua d’argento dallo specchio,

e se nessuno ti starà a guardare

ti toccherai le labbra con la bocca.

Henry Bacon | Orientalist painter

Henry A. Bacon (1839-1912) was an American painter, author, illustrator, and translator.

Before his formal training as an artist, he served as a soldier and war artist during the American Civil War, and was badly wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run.

He then studied in France, and became a member of the Pont-Aven School, painting genre subjects of French country life, many sold back in America.

He first traveled to Egypt in 1897, and then developed an interest in Orientalist painting, soon spending his winters in the Middle East, dying in Cairo.

Adam Scott Rote | Hollywood legends

Adam Scott Rote is a uniquely American painter, and his work draws equally on american architecture and classic cinema to create an enduring sense of aesthetic timelessness. Rote’s work throughout the last decade has been influenced by architecture, fashion, and classic cinema.

He is a self-taught artist who studied early icons including pinup legends Vargas, Robert McGinnis, and master photographer George Hurrell. setting the stage for the elegant and realist styles his figures would garner.

Wassily Kandinsky | Lend your ears to music../ Presta le tue orecchie alla musica..

"…Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking!

Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world.

If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

Sergey Shenderovsky, 1964

Riccardo Galli (Italian painter, 1869-1944)

Riccardo Galli was an Italian painter and illustrator.

Riccardo Galli was born in Milan in 1869, as well as a painter he was also a poet and illustrator for well-known magazines of the time and for the publisher Ricordi and musician. He was a pupil of Giuseppe Bertini (painter) at the Brera Academy.

His painting at the beginning was inspired by life and which found its themes in peasant and countryside life. A painting built with color superimposed in dense brushstrokes and which was directed by patriotic ideals towards Lombard naturalism.

Olivier Lamboray, 1968 | Surrealist painter

Internationally award winning🎨, Olivier Lamboray is a Belgian🎨 Surrealist painter🎨 who currently lives in Indonesia with his daughter.

He has been painting since 1992 and has, to date, had many successful exhibitions in Belgium, USA, Monaco, Italy, England, France,Thailand, Netherlands, Indonesia and Guinea.

"Painting is my Life"...

Would really define who I am.

Surrealism is very present in Belgian culture and I have been fascinated by it since his early years..

"The magical feeling of the surreal dream..."