Vala Ola, 1962 | Figurative sculptor / painter

"The bronze gives me an opportunity to mold the sense of life into an everlasting form.

From the force of a muscle in motion to a tender human emotion expressed.

That along with the abstract quality of composition is what inspires me" - Vala Ola.

Lili Elbe (Einar Wegener) | The Danish Girl

Lili Elbe (born December 28, 1882, Vejle, Denmark - died September 13, 1931, Dresden, Germany) was a Danish painter who was assigned male at birth, experienced what is now called gender dysphoria, and underwent the world’s first documented sex reassignment surgery.

Born Einar Wegener, Elbe lived nearly her whole life as a man.

Edward Moran | Marine painter

Edward Moran (1829-1901) was an British-born American artist who specialized in marine art.

He is arguably most famous for his series of 13 historical paintings of United States marine history.

Vincenzo Cardarelli | Autunno veneziano /Venetian Autumn, 1931

L'alito freddo e umido m'assale

di Venezia autunnale,

Adesso che l'estate,

sudaticcia e sciroccosa,

d'incanto se n'è andata,

una rigida luna settembrina

risplende, piena di funesti presagi,

sulla città d'acque e di pietre

che rivela il suo volto di medusa

contagiosa e malefica.

Marco Ortolan | The Venetian Mask

Henri Lebasque | Pittore post-impressionista

Henri Lebasque (1865-1937) fu membro fondatore del Salon d'Automne nel 1903 con il suo amico Henri Matisse ed espose al Salon des Indépendants.

Nacque in una famiglia modesta (il padre era bottaio) e si iscrisse all'Académie Colarossi nel 1886.

In seguito collaborò con Ferdinand Humbert agli affreschi del Panthéon per sei anni, a partire dal 1888.

Agnolo Bronzino | Mannerist painter

Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1563) of Florence, Italy, known as Il Bronzino, was a Mannerist painter.

Mixing styles of the late High Renaissance into the early Baroque period, Mannerists often depicted their subjects in unnatural forms.

Bronzino’s works have been described as “icy” portraits that put an abyss between the subject and the viewer.

Cristina Fornarelli, 1978 | Pop Art painter

Cristina Fornarelli is an Italian contemporary figurative painter.

Fornarelli was born in Bari, in Southern Italy where light and colors have influenced her art.

After art school, she attended the Institute of Industrial Design in Rome, where she still lives and works.