Marc Chagall: "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand"

• "I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors".

• "Love and fantasy, go hand in hand".

Egisto Lancerotto | Genre painter

Egisto Lancerotto (August 21, 1847 - May 31, 1916) was an Italian painter**, mainly of genre scenes of Venice.

He was born in Noale. His father, a bureaucrat in that town, was transferred to Venice when Egisto was young. Lancerotto attended the Venetian Accademia di Belle Arti, where his professors were Napoleone Nani, Michelangelo Grigoletti, Federico Moja and Pompeo Marino Molmenti. The latter was likely his strongest influence.

Carmen Giraldez, 1976 | Conceptual painter

Carmen Giraldez was born in Barcelona, Spain.

Carmen acquired her interest in art, and especially painting, from her father who is an avid collector and also a painter.

Her early childhood training was “at his knees” as she likes to say.

Toshio Ebine 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter

Japanese painter Toshio Ebine** creates vast, windswept scenes full of balloons, lone animals, and a sense of odd foreboding in what should, by rights, be sweet illustrations for children's books.

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

• Toshio Ebine / 海老根俊雄, 1978 | Romantic Fantasy painter ⏭

Paris Bordone | High Renaissance painter

Paris Bordóne, in full Paris Paschalinus Bordone, Bordone also spelled Bordon, (born c. 1500, Treviso, Republic of Venice [Italy] - died Jan. 19, 1571, Venice), Renaissance Venetian painter of religious, mythological, and anecdotal subjects. He is perhaps best known for his striking sexualized paintings of women.

After his father’s death, Bordone moved with his mother to Venice. He probably became a pupil of Titian about 1516 but remained in his workshop for under two years.

José de Ribera | Baroque Era painter

José de Ribera** (1591-1652) was born in Spain, at Játiva near Valencia, and probably received his training there under Francisco Ribalta.

He moved soon afterwards to Italy and following a period in Rome settled in Naples in 1616.

Ribera became well known for the realism of his treatment of violent subjects such as 'The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew' and 'The Flaying of Marsyas' (Pitti, Florence, and Museo di San Martino, Naples, respectively), but he also painted genre scenes and religious subjects in a refined classical mode characterised by a rich palette.| © The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London