Donatello | The marble David, 1409

Donatello*, in his early twenties, was commissioned to carve a statue of David in 1408, to top one of the buttresses of Florence Cathedral, though it was never to be placed there. Nanni di Banco was commissioned to carve a marble statue of Isaiah, at the same scale, in the same year.

Rosanne Pomerleau, 1958 | Figurative painter

Born in Ascot Corner.

Training: Self-taught painter.

Achievements: Solo and group exhibitions in Canada and the United States.

Honours: Prize of Excellence in 1986, silver medal in watercolour and Prize for Excellence in pastel at the Amsterdam Art International Exhibition in California, U.S.A.

The Selected works of art were exhibited in San Francisco in October 1998.

Member of the American Society of Portrait Artists since 1998.

Collections: Her work is part of public and private collections all over the world.

Tarcsay Bela, 1952 | Abstract painter

Béla Tarcsay was born in Nagykanizsa, Hungary. He lives in Szeged since 2000.

He is dealing with fine arts since 1994.

He intends to show in his paintings his love of nature.

He got his knowledge in fine arts in a self-educated manner. Beside oil paintings he makes attempts at graphics and pastel technique.

Willem Haenraets / William Shakespeare | Romantic Rhythm

Il mio occhio s'è fatto pittore ed ha tracciato

L'immagine tua bella sul quadro del mio cuore;

il mio corpo è cornice in cui è racchiusa,

Prospettica, eccellente arte pittorica,

Ché attraverso il pittore devi vederne l'arte

Per trovar dove sia la tua autentica immagine dipinta,

Odilon Redon | Hommage a Goya, 1885 | The series

Homage to Goya (Hommage à Goya) is an portfolio of 6 lithographs on chine appliqué reveal Redon's admiration for the Spanish painter and printmaker, who died in 1828.

Title: Hommage a Goya

Autor: Odilon Redon (1840-1916)

Date: 1885

Style: Symbolism

Genre: Mythological painting

Media: Oil on cardboard, mounted on canvas

Location: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, Berlin

Odilon Redon | Apollo's Chariot, 1905-1916 | The Series

In 1878 Redon*, in a study of Delacroix*, praised that artist's ceiling in the Louvre showing the Chariot of Apollo, and in the same year he noted in his journal his admiration for a painting of Phaethon by Gustave Moreau*.

Between 1905 and 1916 Redon* devoted a number of oils, pastels and watercolors to the theme of horses of the sun, driven, according to classical mythology, by the god Apollo or his son Phaëthon.

Tenaya Sims | Figurative painter

Tenaya Sims received a BFA in painting and drawing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

After working several years as a graphic artist in the video games industry for Activision, he began his classical studies at the Jeff Watts🎨 Atelier in Encinitas, CA.

He then moved to Seattle where he has completed four years of full-time study in the Gage Classical Atelier.

Rosso Fiorentino | Mannerist painter

Italian painter and decorator, Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540), original name Giovanni Battista di Jacopo, was an exponent of the expressive style that is often called early, or Florentine Mannerism, and one of the founders of the Fontainebleau school.