Gustave Loiseau | The historiographer of the Seine

Gustave Loiseau (3 October 1865 - 10 October 1935) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, remembered above all for his landscapes and scenes of Paris streets.

Loiseau's paintings, revealing his passion for the seasons from the beginning of spring to the harvests later in the autumn, often depict the same orchard or garden scene as time goes by.

Series of this kind, which also include cliffs, harbours or churches, are reminiscent of Claude Monet.

Peder Mønsted | Naturalist painter

Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 - 20 June 1941) was a Danish realist painter, best known for his landscape paintings.

His father was a well-to-do shipbuilder.

At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus and, from 1875-1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner.

In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.

Ludwig Passini | Genre painter

Ludwig Johann Passini (1832-1903) was an Austrian narrative and genre painter🎨 and printmaker.

Ludwig Passini was born on 9 July 1832 in Vienna, the son of the engraver Johann Nepomuk Passini. The Passini family moved to Trieste in 1850.

On 9 November 1864 Passini married Anna Warsaw (1841-1866), who was the daughter of Robert and Mary Warschauer, the great-granddaughter of banker Joseph Mendelssohn and the great-great-granddaughter of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

Miho Hirano /平野実穂 | Pop Fantasy Art

Miho Hirano /平野実穂 is a Japanese artist living in Abiko, Chiba. She graduated from Musashino Art University.

Her fantasy art is inhabited by ephemeral women who seem to be merging with their environment, the hair suspended into flowering tree limbs, bird filled bushes, and drifting seaweed.

Miho Hirano’s work is in a group exhibition (Ephemeral) at the Jiro Miura Gallery in Japan.

Gustave Cariot | Pont Neuf at Paris | Series

Gustave Camille Gaston Cariot (1872-1950) was an French🎨 self-taught artist of the 19th and early 20th century.

Never fully accepting of the label of Impressionism🎨, Cariot is nevertheless best known for his Pointillist paintings🎨.

Nicolaes Maes | Baroque Era painter

Nicolaes Maes, also spelled Nicolaas Maas, (baptized January 1634, Dordrecht, Netherlands - died December 1693, Amsterdam), Dutch Baroque painter🎨 of genre🎨 and portraits who was a follower of Rembrandt.

In about 1650 Maes went to Amsterdam, where he studied with Rembrandt.

Before his return to Dordrecht in 1654, Maes painted a few Rembrandtesque genre pictures as well as a biblical scene with life-size figures in deep glowing colours (Christ Blessing the Children, 1652-53; originally attributed to Rembrandt🎨).

Rembrandt | Quotes / Aforismi

• "Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know".

• "Prova a mettere bene in pratica quello che già sai; così facendo sarai sempre in tempo, e scoprirai le cose nascoste che ora stai cercando. Metti in pratica quello che sai, e ciò ti aiuterà a rendere chiaro ciò che ora non conosci".