Attilio Pratella | Landscape/Genre painter

Italian painter Attilio Pratella was born in Lugo, Italy in 1856, and died in Naples in 1949. Pratella began drawing in 1877, was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna through a scholarship and was inspired by the works of Fontanesi. By 1880 attended the Fine Arts Institute in Naples, during which time he earned livelihood as a ceramics decorator in the Cacciapuoti factory.

Théodore Ralli | Orientalist Academic painter

From a well-known family of Chios, Greek painter Théodore Ralli or Theodoros Rallis / Θεόδωρος Ράλλης (1852-1909) worked for a brief period in the commercial house of Rallis-Mavroyannis in London, but abandoned his entrepreneurial career and settled permanently in Paris, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

There he studied painting under the Academic teacher and Orientalist painter Jean-Leon Gerome until approximately 1880.

In 1873 he took part in the Salon des Refuses.

Fanny Nushka Moreaux, 1983 | Abstract/Figurative painter

French Artist Fanny Nushka Moreaux was born in Lille, France. She lives and paint in Paris and Southern France. She studied political science in Science Po and management in HEC Paris. She considers knowledge as a whole and beauty being part of it. Representation of the body is recurrent in the work of Nushka.

Johnny Morant, 1982 | Figurative painter

Johnny Morant is a contemporary figurative artist. He was born in Hong Kong and grew up in South West England.

After attending art school in Bristol and Bournemouth, he moved to London where his new surroundings had a strong impact on his work.

In this densely populated urban setting Morant is steadily making a name for himself as an accomplished painter of the built environment and the people within it.

Working primarily in oil, his evolving process explores the deconstructive analysis of traditional themes, such as legacy and impact.

Egypt - Land of the Gods and Pyramids

The ancient Egyptian name of the country was Kemet (km.t), which means "black land".

Ancient Egyptians also called there county t-mry: "Beloved Land" or "Land of Gods".

Travel back in time to a place that has left its imprint and impact on humanity forever.

Discover the ancient metaphysical civilization of Egypt whose advanced knowings and technologies continue to baffle our conservative scientific community today.

Artur Muharremi, 1958 | Allegorical painter

Artur Muharremi is one of the most important Albanian contemporary painters. Muharremi has started to create before the political changes leading Albania to democracy took place. With his well known painting 'Before Creation' (1989), Muharremi was one of those very few artists, who shook off and warned the Albanian society of nineties against the crisis that was going to break. Artur Muharremi completed university studies of scenography and contributed actively and significantly as a painter and producer for the development transformation and qualitative amelioration of the animated film.

Chin H. Shin | Impressionist Cityscape painter

Korean-born American painter Chin H. Shin has a Master of Art Degree from Long Island University. His past affiliation includes, Oil painters of America, American Society of Marine Artist, Portrait Society of America, member of Huntington Art Council, a judge for Bold Brush International Art Competition and teaches art classes by request.

Даниил Волков/Daniil Volkov, 1974 | Abstract Impressionist painter

Даниил Волков was born in Yalta, the son of renowned Ukrainian artists with an ancestral history of painters going back to the court of Imperial Russia.

In 1989 he entered the Crimean art school named after Samokish and it was here that he met his future wife Elena, also a distinguished artist. He graduated in 1989 and his first solo exhibition was held in Yalta in 1995.