Stendhal: "L'amore è un bellissimo fiore.."

• "La vista di tutto ciò che è estremamente bello, in arte o in natura, richiama con la rapidità del fulmine il ricordo di chi si ama".

• "The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning".

• "Bellezza è una promessa di felicità".

Rubens Santoro | Venice painting

Rubens Santoro (October 26, 1859 in Mongrassano, Province of Cosenza, Calabria - December 30, 1941 in Naples) was an Italian painter*.

• Biography

He moved to Naples at 10 years of age, to study literature, but his inclination was painting. He only briefly enrolled at the Neapolitan Academy, instead, real life was his model. His first work was a small and simple genre piece: A Girl who Laughs, exhibited at the Promotrice. Domenico Morelli* took note and encouraged him.

Anna Razumovskaya | Portraits

Anna Razumovskaya /Анна Разумовская🎨 is an Russian painter🎨, best known for her classic paintings, romantic figures that carry a sense of elegance and grace.

Born in Rostov-on-Don at the height of the Cold War, Anna was exposed to very different worlds.

She experience the austere world of the communist regime alongside the sophisticated and feminine influence of her fashion-conscious mother.

Anna is a graduate of the Russian State University For Arts, where she was awarded the distinction of high-class artist in 1991.

Subsequently, from 1992-1995, she studied art in Germany, Belgium and Holland.

Oscar Ricciardi | Capri

Oleg Leonov / Олег Леонов, 1959

Russian Artist Oleg Aleksandrovich Leonov graduated at Kazan Art School in 1980, at Moscow State Art Institute, a studio of portraying by prof. Ilya Glazunov.

Since the year 1988, Oleg Leonov has participated many art exhibitions, such as All-Russian and foreign exhibitions and All-Union exhibitions.

Oleg is also a member of Moscow Union of Artists. Oleg is an extremely versatile and talented artist who beautifully portrays the enchantment of native nature and sweet charm and innocence of feminine beauty.

Pierre Auguste Cot | Springtime / Le Printemps, 1873

O primavera! gioventù dell'anno!

O gioventù! primavera della vita!!!

O Spring! Youth of the year!

O youth! Springtime of life!!!

Springtime

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Cot (French, Bédarieux 1837-1883 Paris);

Date:1873;

Medium: Oil on canvas;

Dimensions: 84 x 50 in. (213.4 x 127 cm);

Classification: Paintings;

Credit Line: Gift of Steven and Alexandra Cohen, 2012;

Accession Number: 2012.575;

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 827.

Jean Abrie, 1962 | Pittore di figure

Jean Abrie è nato in Sud Africa e nei suoi primi anni è cresciuto in Zimbabwe.

Quando è tornato in Sud Africa ha completato gli studi e si è laureato all'Università di Pretoria.

È ben noto per i suoi dipinti fotorealistici della fauna selvatica africana.

Jean Abrie vive in Sudafrica, dove trae ispirazione dalla natura, dagli animali e dalle persone del continente africano in continua evoluzione.

Renoir | Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar, 1898

Pierre-Auguste Renoir🎨
Young Spanish woman with a guitar
1898
55.6 x 65.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: Renoir.98.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

"Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar" is an 1898 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.