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.