Carl Vilhelm Holsøe | Interior scenes with figures

Carl Vilhelm Holsøe (1863-1935) is a very much respected artist of the Danish school. Holsøe became a well-listed, highly acclaimed artist.

Escaping from the sentimentality of Golden Age interiors, Holsoe and his contemporaries imbued this traditional genre with a sense of timeless sanctity.

Through the depiction of solitary, usually female, figures with concealed identities, Holsoe's paintings evoke the brooding nature of introspection and self-absorption.

His work, influenced by the 17th Century interiors of the Dutch masters Vermeer, de Hooch and ter Borch, explored the emotional content inherent in the household interior.

Vincent van Gogh | View of the Church of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, 1889

Artist: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)⏭

Title: View of the Church of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole

Date: Saint-Rémy, Autumn 1889

Medium: oil on canvas

Dimensions: 45.1 × 60.4 cm (17.7 × 23.7 in)

Collection: Elizabeth Taylor, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, North America

Jaroslav Seifert / John Singer Sargent | Viaggio a Venezia

Si può dire forse cosí:

l’amore va e va e va

e non v’è angolo

dove non sia a casa sua.

E i baci si allungano veloci

come a primavera le giornate.

Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506)

Mantegna, Andrea - Pittore ed incisore padovano, nato nel 1431, probabilmente a Isola di Carturo, allora in territorio di Vicenza, morto a Mantova il 13 settembre 1506. Fu l'iniziatore del Rinascimento nel Veneto e il rinnovatore della pittura nell'Italia settentrionale.

Era figlio di contadini; ne scoprì il genio e lo indirizzò all'arte Francesco Squarcione; strana figura di pittore e più di pedagogo e d'imprenditore, arrivato all'arte a trentadue anni dalla sartoria, a cui la vecchia storiografia, per vanità provinciale, assegnò il compito d'inventore d'un rinascimento particolare, non possibile in una terra ancora sotto il fascino pieno dell'arte bizantina e della gotica, e che il mondo non ebbe se non da Firenze.

Bernard Pras, 1952 | Surrealist sculptor

F rench artist⏭ Bernard Pras combines surrealism⏭ and anamorphosis by assembling commonplace materials that can be seen as recognisable people when photographed from the precise position of alignment.

The assembled objects are not arbitrary but are selected to marry with the theme of the portrayed person.

Djordje Prudnikov (Serbian, 1939-2017)

Đorđe Prudnikov / Djordje Prudnikov /Ђорђе Прудников was an Russo-Serbian painter, graphic artist and designer, championed as one of the greatest and most original contemporary artists to emerge from the former Yugoslavia.

It was the hand of God that joined a serbian woman and a russian man, who had come to Serbia as boy, with his parents, after the October Revolution in Russia.

So, on April 19th 1939 in Uzice, they got their son: Djordje Prudnikov.

In 1946, the family moved to Belgrade. After completing his grammar school, Djordje was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts.

Few months later he left it to enroll at the Academy of Applied Arts where he graduated in the class of Professor Mihailo Petrov.

Jaume Huguet | Early Renaissance painter

Jaume Huguet (1412–1492) was a Catalan painter.

Originally from Valls, he moved to Tarragona to stay with his uncle Pere Huguet, who was also a painter. When they moved to Barcelona he was exposed to modern trends of the time. Between 1440-1445 he worked in Zaragoza and later in Tarragona, where he was influenced by the Flemish style of Luis Dalmau.

A retablo from Huguet is in the Monastery of Pedralbes, while another, depicting the Adoration of the Magi (or Epiphany) is housed in the Chapel of St. Agatha in Barcelona's Palau Reial Major.