Jan Sluyters | Post-Impressionist painter

Johannes Carolus Bernardus (Jan) Sluijters, or Sluyters (17 December 1881 in 's-Hertogenbosch - 8 May 1957 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter and co-founder of the Moderne Kunstkring.

So when he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1904, and the grant that came with it, he took off to the French capital as soon as he could.

Sluijters (in English often spelled "Sluyters") was a leading pioneer of various post-impressionist movements in the Netherlands.

Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter | Part ²

Claude Lorrain (1600 - 23 November 1682) was a French painter ⎆, draughtsman and engraver of the Baroque era ⎆. He spent most of his life in Italy, and is one of the earliest important artists, apart from his contemporaries in Dutch Golden Age painting, to concentrate on landscape painting.

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

• Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter ⏭

Anton Einsle | Portrait painter

Anton Einsle (1801-1871), an Austrian ⎆ portrait painter, was born at Vienna in 1801.
He studied at the Academy of that city, and was largely patronized by the court and nobility. He died in 1871.

Anton Einsle (1801-1871) è sato un ritrattista Austriaco ⎆, nacque a Vienna nel 1801.

Studiò all'Accademia della stessa città, e fu in gran parte patrocinato dalla corte e dalla nobiltà. Morì nel 1871.

Claude Lorrain | Baroque Era painter

Claude Lorrain, byname of Claude Gellée, (born 1600, Chamagne, France - died Nov. 23, 1682, Rome [Italy]), French artist best known for, and one of the greatest masters of, ideal landscape painting, an art form that seeks to present a view of nature more beautiful and harmonious than nature itself.

Piero della Francesca | The History of the True Cross, 1466

The History of the True Cross or The Legend of the True Cross is a sequence of frescoes painted by Piero della Francesca in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo.

It is his largest work, and generally considered one of his finest, and an early Renaissance masterpiece.

Its theme, derived from the popular 13th century book on the lives of saints by Jacopo da Varagine, the Golden Legend, is the triumph of the True Cross - the legend of the wood from the Garden of Eden becoming the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

Melozzo da Forlì | Musician angels / Gli Angeli musicanti, 1480

The 14 fragments with the Apostles and Angel musicians (these too exhibited in room IV) together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ.

The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted by Melozzo da Forlì ⏭ around 1480, shortly after the works of restoration on the church for cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503-1513).

Alfred Sisley | Impressionist / Plein Air painter

Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship.
He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en Plein Air. He never deviated into figure painting and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, never found that Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Among his important works are a series of paintings of the River Thames, mostly around Hampton, executed in 1874, and landscapes depicting places in or near Moret-sur-Loing.